Looking for ideas for green New Year's resolutions? Follow these six tips from SEI researchers to have a more sustainable year in 2022.

SEI York Centre Director Sarah West was featured on BBC Breakfast at the York Christmas Market to discuss how people can have a more green and sustainable Christmas.

SEI researchers offer advice on how to have a more environmentally friendly Christmas this year.

City planning needs to consider livability and resident well-being alongside equality of environmental and economic development: new research from SEI's Initiative on City Health and Wellbeing.

Join us as we celebrate the United Nations Day of Human Rights and #StandUp4HumanRights.

Three new SEI publications on cross-border climate impacts, co-created transdisciplinary approaches to local air pollution research, and how we can enable sustainable trade.

SEI's Jessica Slater helps Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith consider the environmental impact of lighting their firepit and cooking bacon each Saturday.

Three new SEI publications on a range of topics from delivering urban wellbeing in the global south, overcoming siloed thinking about food loss and waste, and why consumer countries' laws to tackle commodity-linked deforestation is insufficient.

As COP26 draws to a close, global leaders have spoken about their plans to tackle climate change. SEI’s Chris Malley was interviewed by BBC Radio York to discuss his thoughts on COP26 and the results that will come of it.

Pick your read from seven new SEI publications on a range of topics from nature-based outdoor activities for mental and physical health to assessing transboundary climate risks in agricultural commodity flows.

Leading brands including Tesco, Nestle, Sainsbury’s, Nando’s, KFC UK and Ireland, Morrisons and McDonald’s UK and Ireland have signed up to the new UK Soy Manifesto. They have committed to buying only soya that has been grown without deforestation or removal of native vegetation, by 2025.

A NEW practical guide for businesses on how to measure air pollution across value chains is being developed by SEI and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition in partnership with IKEA. It was launched at COP26 and will support companies to understand their impact on air quality and take necessary actions to reduce their emissions to contribute to better health for people and the planet.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned global leaders that humanity has “run down the clock” on climate change and it’s now one minute to midnight. SEI’s Chris Malley shares his thoughts with BBC Radio York from inside the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.

Aftonbladet ran an article about methane gas leaking from fibre banks in Swedish rivers and asked SEI’s Johan Kuylenstierna about the importance of tackling methane gas emissions in the fight against climate change.

As COP15 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity talks began last week, The Guardian ran an article on the five main drivers of biodiversity loss and how countries can collectively act to tackle them. SEI’s Kevin Hicks was asked about the issue of nitrogen pollution.

Learn more about what SEI is doing to support sustainable cities for the health and well-being of their inhabitants and the planet. #UrbanOctober

SEI Research Fellow Simon Croft was quoted in the Phys.org news blog on his contribution to a new SEI report “Climate Change, Trade, and Global Food Security: A Global Assessment of Transboundary Climate Risks in Agricultural Commodity Flows”.

SEI Research Associate Eleni Michalopoulou features on a Russian television news segment discussing how researchers have managed to “farm” coffee in Finland through growing cells in a bioreactor.

SEI’s Chris West was one of a team of experts consulted by Women’s Health Magazine to help create their list of the top 30 best health food products. Chris explains the environmental issues linked to dairy, coffee and meat consumption and suggests ways we can shrink our environmental footprint when doing our food shopping.

Find out more how SEI is supporting the day and is contributing to #HealthyAirHealthyPlanet.

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at York researcher Dr Eleni Michalopoulou has contributed to a new COP26 Universities Network Briefing, advising on environmental solutions that are actionable now, as well as research priorities for the next decade.

World Athletics builds on SEI’s air pollution research to introduce Phase 2 of their air quality project – a new method of monitoring air pollution in Nairobi.

Read the new publications released by SEI - a commodity supply mix for more regionalized life cycle assessments; and six modes of co-production for sustainability.

SEI York researchers are taking part in a £2.3mn, UKRI funded project, to improve understanding of the functions and services provided by treescapes.

Integrating assessments of agricultural systems can reduce emissions and improve health, new research suggests.

Take part in SEI-hosted online sessions at World Water Week from 23-27 August as we discuss water governance, sanitation, blue finance and sustainability.

SEI Research Associate Eleni Michalopoulou was featured on a Russian television news segment highlighting the value of celebrity involvement in environmental issues.

SEI Research Associate Eleni Michalopoulou featured on a Russian television news segment to discuss the new EU law to ban single-use plastics.

SEI Senior Research Fellow Chris Malley was interviewed by Neena Bhandari from SciDev.Net about a recent SEI study linking agriculture production, unhealthy diets and rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Long-term research is required to understand the true impacts of different peatland management techniques. For the last 20 years, SEI has studied the effect of different management practices on UK peatlands.

With an increasing range of data, methods and tools now available, SEI is at the forefront of research to understand how these embedded biodiversity losses flow through global supply chains.

We need to rethink the old boundaries of water governance. Traditional units of governance in water management are spatial or biogeographical, watersheds, basins or catchments. Watersheds transcend political, cultural and national boundaries, but their governance is stuck in administrative settings that reflect small-scale national priorities. Those affected directly by water decision-making are left out, along with their environmental concerns.

How did SEI respond to COVID-19, and how is it contributing to a green recovery?

The launch of the new Global Methane Assessment last week identifies an important opportunity to reduce the rate of global warming and achieve significant health and development benefits by reducing methane emissions from human sources.

BBC News Chief Environment Correspondent Justin Rowlatt interviews SEI researcher Eleni Michalopoulou about the new Global Methane Assessment on the 6 o’clock news.

The assessment shows how human-caused methane emissions can be reduced by up to 45% this decade.

A Global Methane Assessment released today by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with support from SEI researchers, shows that human-caused methane emissions can be reduced by up to 45% this decade. Such reductions would avoid nearly 0.3°C of global warming by 2045 and would be consistent with keeping the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5˚C, within reach.

SEI York’s Chris West is quoted in a Sky News article about the UK’s carbon footprint reduction.

More than 300,000 responses to the WWF carbon footprint calculator shows an average 17% reduction in footprint.

More than 300,000 responses to the WWF carbon footprint calculator shows an average 17% reduction in footprint.

Chris West was quoted in this Guardian article on the impacts of western consumption on global deforestation.

There is a clear link between reduced greenhouse gas emissions and better health. A new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health shows how millions of premature deaths can be avoided – if the countries tighten their climate work.

It’s no secret that disposable nappies generate huge amounts of plastic waste, with three billion thrown away each year in the UK according to recycling charity WRAP. Are biodegradable nappies the answer if you’re trying to be a more sustainable parent?

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden declared to make progress on his climate agenda, including taking executive action to limit methane pollution from new and existing oil and gas operations. SEI expert on air pollution Dr. Johan C.I Kuylenstierna reacts to the decision.

An interview with Steve Cinderby and Diane Archer about SEI's project, City Health and Wellbeing.