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Skip navigation Effective efforts to adapt to climate change and reduce disaster risk depend on collaboration across disciplines, institutions and communities. To respond to complex and interconnected risks requires integrating the knowledge of many different people: researchers, policymakers, emergency responders, planners, engineers, social scientists and residents of local communities.

Åsa Persson has been appointed Chief Scientist and Director of the Office of Science at the United Nations Environment Programme. She takes up the post in mid-October, leading the Office of Science and joining UNEP’s senior management team. She spent the past year at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Climate Action Centre, having served as Research Director and Deputy Director at SEI for seven years.

Skip navigation International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. The authors present the first systematic cross-country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups in society. They confirm that coherence is perceived to be beneficial for most groups.

Skip navigation Key messages Learning from results does happen in IDOs that have established processes for results to inform decision-making. Learning happens primarily during planning and forecasting activities in the first step of the RBM loop rather than after reporting of results. Interactive and dynamic RBM processes that use diverse information sources and create artifacts enable learning from results.

As part of the 12th Asia-Pacific Futures Network (APFN) Conference in Bangkok, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) invites participants to The Future is Care: Visioning Inclusive and Resilient Care Systems in Asia and the Pacific. This interactive session will explore how demographic change, climate change, urbanization, digitalization, persistent inequalities and social norms may reshape care systems across Asia and the Pacific.

Skip navigation The world’s coffee supply chains now mapped The new Trase dataset builds a uniquely detailed global picture of coffee supply chains, identifying not only the most important producer countries and destination markets, but also the leading coffee exporter and importer companies. We also map exports back to local production regions for some of the most important coffee-producing countries. The dataset is freely available to download.

Skip navigation The authors define “charging poverty” as the inability to afford or access sufficient, reliable, and socially inclusive electric vehicle charging. They develop a conceptual framework that structures recurring constraints into five dimensions: economic, spatial, functional, temporal, and digital, illustrated across a typology of users and associated indicators.

Skip navigation Although the SDGs as set out in the 2030 Agenda are in theory indivisible, research has shown that in practice their uptake and implementation is often highly uneven. Whereas the phenomenon of cherry-picking has been well documented, the authors of this paper examine the other side of the coin, i.e. the neglect of certain SDGs, using the case of bioeconomy policy in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

Skip navigation World Water Week has been held every year since 1991 to explore urgent water-related topics, with SEI as an active contributor throughout. Much of this year’s discussion centred on the UN report Global Water Bankruptcy by Professor Kaveh Madani, who attended the week to receive the Stockholm Water Prize. The report warns that the world is living “beyond its hydrological means”.

Skip navigation The accelerating demand for critical raw materials (CRM) has intensified tensions between supply security and socio-environmental sustainability, giving rise to a “security–sustainability nexus” in global supply chains.