Technical "solutions" for human health or the environment introduced through development interventions, such as clean cookstoves, often fail to take hold because people never truly embrace them. SEI explores individual and household behaviour to better understand how and why people take up new technologies.
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Feature / To remain a leader in climate policy, the EU must tackle emissions produced beyond its borders, which result from the EU’s demand for imported goods.
Journal article / The paper examines whether and how new policies for Ghana's agricultural development deal with critical gendered challenges around land tenure.
Journal article / This study explores the role of local policy actors in supporting sustainable consumption, taking food consumption in Sweden as an example.
Project / Public meals are vital in Sweden's welfare system, but 20% is wasted. We test solutions to cut food waste in schools and hospitals.
Feature / Low-carbon tourism projects exemplify that changing the sector according to climate goals is possible, but requires agency from all stakeholders.
Feature / SEI is now developing the Consumption Compass for Swedish municipalities to address their consumption-based emissions.
Other publication / This report focuses on the potential environmental, health, social and animal welfare implications of the uptake of novel meat and dairy alternatives.
Feature / SEI scientists weigh in on the new UNEP report exploring potential effects of some novel alternatives to conventional animal products, which launched at COP28.
Project / Household food waste contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Urgent action is needed for Sweden to reduce it by 25% before 2025.
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