Q&A: Francis X. Johnson on the IPCC Synthesis Report
Read this Q&A on the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report – its significance, highlights and next steps, by Francis X. Johnson, SEI Senior Research Fellow and member of the Extended Writing Team.
IPBES Values Assessment - Decisions Based on Narrow Set of Market Values of Nature Underpin the Global Biodiversity Crisis
Explore the key findings of the IPBES Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature, and learn about the different ways in which nature has been, and is currently being, perceived and valued. To improve peoples' understanding of this, the report introduces a novel and comprehensive typology of nature’s values.
Is the New IPCC Report a Game Changer for Adaptation? SEI's Response to AR6
Read SEI's response to the IPCC AR6 WGII report exploring what's new, what's missing and whether it is a game changer for adaptation.
The IPCC's 6th Assessment Report: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability - Summary for Policymakers
Explore the key findings and further resources from Working Group II's contribution to the IPCC's sixth climate report.
Careless Development Models in Yolanda's Wake
Six years after Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) devastated Tacloban city in the Philippines the struggle for recovery continues. A call for transformation in the current development and recovery model.
Unpacking Transformation: A framework and insights from adaptation mainstreaming
This paper puts forward a conceptual framework for determining the likelihood of an adaptation initiative delivering transformation.
Adaptive governance as a catalyst for transforming the relationship between development and disaster risk through the Sendai Framework
This paper investigates the importance of adaptive governance for disaster risk reduction and explores the transformations needed to achieve equitable, resilient, and sustainable development.
What is equitable resilience?
This paper reveals four themes essential in understanding equitable resilience in practice: subjectivities, inclusion, cross-scale interactions, and transformation.
Transformation in Adaptation
This ASSAR working paper highlights a range of activities that could be classified in different ways as embodying transformation, and reflects on some of their implications and complexities.
Transformational Adaptation: An Introduction
This introductory article provides a brief overview of the concept of transformational adaptation and relevant case studies for practitioners.
Equitable Resilience in Local Institutions
ERLI looks at how resilience practice plays out ‘on-the-ground’ through in-depth and qualitative case studies of nine local institutions in Bangladesh.
Trade-offs in development and disaster risk decision-making
A discussion brief from SEI's TDDR Initiative considers key trade-offs found in development and DRR decision-making in search of spaces for transformation.
Reos Partners
For 20 years, Reos Partners has been practicing a rigorous set of methods that help people make progress on complex, stuck challenges.
Transformative Development and Disaster Risk Management
This overview builds on previous work in Integrated Research on Disaster Risk to provide the science-based evidence for the development of the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction
Hope in a Changing Climate
This documentary demonstrates that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems to sequester carbon and fundamentally improve the lives of people who have been trapped in poverty.
Climate Sense
Climate CaDD
The CaDD software system provides services to generate metrics on organisational and stakeholder capacities across any climate change relevant activity/activities, and at any scale.
Kazakhstan's local farmers adapt to climate aridity
Akmola Oblast is the nation’s agricultural center, but its fragile steppe ecosystem is subject to harsh weather conditions exacerbated by climate change and threatening local economy.
Libélula
We are the first private consulting firm in Peru to offer an integral service that incorporates environmental sustainability and the climate change perspective into organizations.
Adaptive forest management at the Glentress Trial Area
Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) is an approach to forest management that utilises several different silvicultural systems.
