Americas

A flag guard stands at the entrance to the SIDS4 conference at the University of Antigua.

Key outcomes of the UN conference on Small Island Developing States

Feature / SIDS4 highlighted urgent climate action plans and introduced the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda to combat threats to small island nations.

7 June 2024 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster Risk, Finance and Water resources

Open field with overhead wires and a factory producing steam or smoke.

Developing scenarios for non-CO2 forcers for Latin America and Africa region using LEAP

Past event / See our presentation at the Air Pollution Conference Brazil on how FOCI is assessing the influence of climate change mitigation measures on non-CO2 forcers.

06 June 2024 / About Climate policy, Food and agriculture, Mitigation, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants

Supporting multi-stakeholder participation processes: a Serious Game application for watershed management in Colombia

Journal article / SEI researchers and Corpocaldas address the challenges of multi-stakeholder participation in watershed management using serious games.

6 June 2024 / About Water resources

A wall display hand made out of coloured card and paper, with a large alarm clock split into thirds with the words 'mañana', 'tarde' and 'noche' and corresponding illustrations indicating morning, afternoon and night, surrounded by coloured cards with text and pictures of water bottles, buckets and footprints.

SEI at the Conference for Advancing the Participatory Sciences: the Mexico WASH citizen science project

Past event / Rachel Pateman shared methods and lessons from a co-created project to understand unhoused people's access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in Mexico City.

05 June 2024 / About Cities, Sanitation and Water resources

Peaks in the Andes Mountains in Venezuela

Peak focus: addressing the increasing impacts of climate change on mountains

Feature / SEI's Kate Williamson and Rosie Witton discuss new insights about climate change adaptation in mountains, a region of growing policy and research attention.

29 May 2024 / About Adaptation

Three top priorities for biodiversity ahead of COP16

Feature / SEI experts discuss pressing biodiversity challenges and strategies ahead of COP16 in Colombia.

22 May 2024 / About Bioeconomy, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture and Forests

Two agricultural harvester machines harvesting soybeans in a vast field under a dramatic sky with large clouds. Dust clouds are visible behind the machines, indicating active harvesting.

Tracking soy to halt deforestation

Feature / Learn how Trase data drives actions to curb deforestation in soy supply chains.

22 May 2024 / About Bioeconomy, Forests, Public policy, Supply Chains and Sustainable lifestyles

Railway tracks head off into the distance. Cerrejón’s railway on its way to Puerto Bolivar, La Guajira © Eduar Monsalve / SEI

Carbón y transiciones justas en el Caribe colombiano

SEI working paper / Investigadores analizan las dinámicas de poder y las políticas de distribución que determinan la resistencia a la eliminación progresiva del carbón en Colombia.

10 January 2024 / About Fossil fuels and Renewables

P&R – COP16: Colombia como Epicentro de la Paz con la Naturaleza

Feature / Investigadoras de SEI analizan los retos, oportunidades y prioridades para la próxima COP16 de Biodiversidad en Colombia.

21 May 2024 / About Bioeconomy, Ecosystems and Water resources