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<picture><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/38160159964-f1bace62a4-k-274x152.jpg?modtime=" media="(min-width:550px)"><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/38160159964-f1bace62a4-k-100x56.jpg?modtime=" media="(min-width:1px)"><img srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/38160159964-f1bace62a4-k-274x152.jpg?modtime=" alt="Farming" class="c-compact-item__image" loading="lazy"></picture> </div> <a class="c-compact-item__link" href="https://www.sei.org/projects/iknowfood/"> <span class="c-compact-item__title"> IKnowFood </span> </a> </div> </article> <article class="c-compact-item"> <div class="c-compact-item__link-wrapper"> <div class="c-compact-item__image-wrapper"> <picture><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/disaster-274x152.jpg?modtime=" media="(min-width:550px)"><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/disaster-100x56.jpg?modtime=" media="(min-width:1px)"><img 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class="c-compact-item__title"> WATERDRIVE </span> </a> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div class="c-card-block__button-wrapper"> <div class="c-card-block__button"> <a class="o-button" href="https://www.sei.org/search/?select-post_type%5B%5D=project&select-post_type%5B%5D=tool&select-language%5B%5D=english&hidden-current-page=1#listing">All projects and tools</a> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="c-card-block c-card-block--content-width c-card-block--layout-stacked o-section" > <div class="o-container"> <header class="c-card-block__header"> <h2 class="c-card-block__title"> Cities </h2> <p class="c-card-block__description"> More than 65% of the world's population are projected to live in cities by 2050, with major implications resource use, energy, water and sanitation, and health and well-being. At the same time urbanization can bring benefits, especially efficiency gains. SEI examines these challenges in the round to advance sustainable urbanization. </p> </header> <div class="c-card-block__card-outer"> <div class="c-card-block__cards"> <article class="c-card c-card--stacked "> <div class="c-card__link-wrapper"> <div class="c-card__image-wrapper"> <picture><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/sei2025-011-urbancanalbharatpur-sei-748x420.webp?modtime=" media="(min-width:550px)"><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/sei2025-011-urbancanalbharatpur-sei-550x309.webp?modtime=" media="(min-width:1px)"><img srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/sei2025-011-urbancanalbharatpur-sei-1000x561.webp?modtime=" alt="An open canal with water runs between a sidewalk lined with colorful storefronts and the street, with motorbikes parked nearby." class="c-card__image" loading="lazy"></picture> </div> <div class="c-card__text-wrapper"> <a class="c-card__link" href="https://www.sei.org/publications/urban-nature-based-solutions-infectious-disease-bharatpur-nepal/"> <span class="c-card__title"> Exploring the potential of urban nature-based solutions to address infectious disease: a case study in Bharatpur, Nepal </span> </a> <p class="c-card__description"> <span class="c-card__type">SEI report</span> <span class="c-card__type"> / </span> A research project investigated drivers of infectious disease in a developing city context, with a survey, workshops and stakeholder engagement for solutions. </p> <div class="c-card__bottom-meta"> <p class="c-card__bottom-meta-text"> <span class="c-card__date">25 February 2025 /</span> <span>About</span> <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/cities/?parent_topic=health" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Cities</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div class="c-card-block__button-wrapper"> <div class="c-card-block__button"> <a class="o-button " href="https://www.sei.org/topic/cities/?parent_topic=health">More on cities</a> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="c-card-block c-card-block--content-width c-card-block--layout-stacked o-section" > <div class="o-container"> <header class="c-card-block__header"> <h2 class="c-card-block__title"> Climate services </h2> <p class="c-card-block__description"> SEI’s work sheds light on major ethical issues in climate services, examines key challenges, and offers new analytical frameworks centred on climate services and health. </p> </header> <div class="c-card-block__card-outer"> <div class="c-card-block__cards"> <article class="c-card c-card--stacked "> <div class="c-card__link-wrapper"> <div class="c-card__image-wrapper"> <picture><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/biodiversity-thailand-2024-748x420.webp?modtime=" media="(min-width:550px)"><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/biodiversity-thailand-2024-550x309.webp?modtime=" media="(min-width:1px)"><img srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/biodiversity-thailand-2024-1000x561.webp?modtime=" alt="River in the green mangroves forest and limestone hill in Thailand." class="c-card__image" loading="lazy"></picture> </div> <div class="c-card__text-wrapper"> <a class="c-card__link" href="https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/event-regional-partnerships-for-nature-and-climate/"> <span class="c-card__title"> Event: Regional partnerships for Nature and Climate </span> </a> <p class="c-card__description"> <span class="c-card__type">Media advisory</span> <span class="c-card__type"> / </span> SEI Asia will host an event 3 October on the role of nature-based solutions in Southeast and South Asia to address biodiversity, climate and land degradation. </p> <div class="c-card__bottom-meta"> <p class="c-card__bottom-meta-text"> <span class="c-card__date">25 September 2024 /</span> <span>About</span> <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/climate-policy/?parent_topic=climate" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Climate policy</a>, <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/climate-services/?parent_topic=health" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Climate services</a> and <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/land-use/?parent_topic=land" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Land use</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div class="c-card-block__button-wrapper"> <div class="c-card-block__button"> <a class="o-button " href="https://www.sei.org/topic/climate-services/?parent_topic=health">More on climate services</a> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="c-card-block c-card-block--content-width c-card-block--layout-stacked o-section" > <div class="o-container"> <header class="c-card-block__header"> <h2 class="c-card-block__title"> Disaster risk </h2> <p class="c-card-block__description"> Our research recognizes that disaster risk and development are closely linked: it is development processes that largely determine who and what is exposed to risk as well how much, and how effectively they can respond. SEI works to integrate disaster risk reduction with equitable, sustainable and resilient development. </p> </header> <div class="c-card-block__card-outer"> <div class="c-card-block__cards"> <article class="c-card c-card--stacked "> <div class="c-card__link-wrapper"> <div class="c-card__image-wrapper"> <picture><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/gettyimages-1228328385-748x420.webp?modtime=" media="(min-width:550px)"><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/gettyimages-1228328385-550x309.webp?modtime=" media="(min-width:1px)"><img srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/gettyimages-1228328385-1000x561.webp?modtime=" alt="A Health agent of the City of Rio de Janeiro performs a COVID-19 rapid test on Aloizio dos Santos, 78, while another writes down the information of the person at Morro da Mangueira (favela) on September 3, 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil." class="c-card__image" loading="lazy"></picture> </div> <div class="c-card__text-wrapper"> <a class="c-card__link" href="https://www.sei.org/publications/brazils-malgovernance-covid-19/"> <span class="c-card__title"> Gore capitalism and necropolitics in Brazil’s malgovernance of the COVID-19 pandemic </span> </a> <p class="c-card__description"> <span class="c-card__type">Journal article</span> <span class="c-card__type"> / </span> In this article, the authors analyze Brazil’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic through a critical analytical lens. </p> <div class="c-card__bottom-meta"> <p class="c-card__bottom-meta-text"> <span class="c-card__date">7 February 2025 /</span> <span>About</span> <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/disaster-risk/?parent_topic=health" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Disaster Risk</a>, <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/public-policy/?parent_topic=governance" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Public policy</a>, <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/sanitation/?parent_topic=health" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Sanitation</a> and <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/wellbeing/?parent_topic=health" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Wellbeing</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div class="c-card-block__button-wrapper"> <div class="c-card-block__button"> <a class="o-button " href="https://www.sei.org/topic/disaster-risk/?parent_topic=health">More on disaster risk</a> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="c-card-block c-card-block--content-width c-card-block--layout-stacked o-section" > <div class="o-container"> <header class="c-card-block__header"> <h2 class="c-card-block__title"> Food and agriculture </h2> <p class="c-card-block__description"> How can we meet the nutritional needs and expectations of a growing world population? And how do we do it without compromising long-term sustainability? SEI research explores the transition to sustainable food and agricultural systems. </p> </header> <div class="c-card-block__card-outer"> <div class="c-card-block__cards"> <article class="c-card c-card--stacked "> <div class="c-card__link-wrapper"> <div class="c-card__image-wrapper"> <picture><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/prototypes-748x420.webp?modtime=" media="(min-width:550px)"><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/prototypes-550x309.webp?modtime=" media="(min-width:1px)"><img srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/prototypes-1000x561.webp?modtime=" alt="Printed illustrations on a white desktop of a fridge organising system, reminders on a closed fridge, phone app, website on a laptop screen, with pens and post it notes scattered on top" class="c-card__image" loading="lazy"></picture> </div> <div class="c-card__text-wrapper"> <a class="c-card__link" href="https://www.sei.org/features/reduce-household-food-waste/"> <span class="c-card__title"> What’s in the fridge? Science-based strategies to reduce household food waste </span> </a> <p class="c-card__description"> <span class="c-card__type">Feature</span> <span class="c-card__type"> / </span> Reducing household food waste would go a long way to lower Sweden's emissions and behavioural science can help identify the best strategies. </p> <div class="c-card__bottom-meta"> <p class="c-card__bottom-meta-text"> <span class="c-card__date">24 January 2025 /</span> <span>About</span> <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/behaviour-choice/?parent_topic=economy" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Behaviour and choice</a>, <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/food-agriculture/?parent_topic=health" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Food and agriculture</a> and <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/sustainable-lifestyles/?parent_topic=economy" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Sustainable lifestyles</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div class="c-card-block__button-wrapper"> <div class="c-card-block__button"> <a class="o-button " href="https://www.sei.org/topic/food-agriculture/?parent_topic=health">More on food and agriculture</a> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="c-card-block c-card-block--content-width c-card-block--layout-stacked o-section" > <div class="o-container"> <header class="c-card-block__header"> <h2 class="c-card-block__title"> Household energy </h2> <p class="c-card-block__description"> Around 2.4 billion people use biomass fuels – wood, charcoal and animal dung – for their domestic energy needs. These are typically burned in inefficient stoves or on open fires, with serious consequences for health and the environment. SEI identifies and designs actions to help households transition to cleaner technologies and energy sources. </p> </header> <div class="c-card-block__card-outer"> <div class="c-card-block__cards"> <article class="c-card c-card--stacked "> <div class="c-card__link-wrapper"> <div class="c-card__image-wrapper"> <picture><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/gettyimages-1816505150-748x420.webp?modtime=" media="(min-width:550px)"><source srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/gettyimages-1816505150-550x309.webp?modtime=" media="(min-width:1px)"><img srcset="https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/gettyimages-1816505150-1000x561.webp?modtime=" alt="White chickens crowded inside a poultry farm pen." class="c-card__image" loading="lazy"></picture> </div> <div class="c-card__text-wrapper"> <a class="c-card__link" href="https://www.sei.org/publications/faos-1-5c-roadmap-food-falls-short/"> <span class="c-card__title"> FAO’s 1.5°C roadmap for food systems falls short </span> </a> <p class="c-card__description"> <span class="c-card__type">Journal article</span> <span class="c-card__type"> / </span> A Comment in Nature Food details the shortfalls in the FAO's food systems roadmap to eliminate hunger without breaching the 1.5°C climate change threshold. </p> <div class="c-card__bottom-meta"> <p class="c-card__bottom-meta-text"> <span class="c-card__date">18 March 2024 /</span> <span>About</span> <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/climate-policy/?parent_topic=climate" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Climate policy</a> and <a href="https://www.sei.org/topics/household-energy/?parent_topic=health" class="c-card__bottom-meta-link">Household energy</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div class="c-card-block__button-wrapper"> <div class="c-card-block__button"> <a class="o-button " href="https://www.sei.org/topic/household-energy/?parent_topic=health">More on household energy</a> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="c-card-block c-card-block--content-width c-card-block--layout-stacked o-section" > <div class="o-container"> <header class="c-card-block__header"> <h2 class="c-card-block__title"> Pollution </h2> <p class="c-card-block__description"> Pollution from human activity threatens both human health and vital ecosystems. 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