Goodman Lectures, the fi rst of which will
be held in 2009. The Goodman Lectures
will be hosted by SEI and the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences, Gordon's two institu-
tional homes in Sweden.
research initiatives. A milestone for us was
the formal establishment of the SEI Africa
Centre, which is hosted at the University of
Dar es Salaam in Tanzania (see page 10).
The Centre will operate across the entire
continent through its extensive knowledge
network. In partnership with African institu-
tions, SEI Africa will advance knowledge for
policy and development in areas where it can
fi ll critical gaps. Initially, the Centre will focus
on the key issues of climate change (policy
and adaptation) and bio-resources (bio-
energy, water and land management).
for example, made important contri butions
to Tony Blair's climate initiative, the Swedish
Prime Minister's Commission on Sustainable
Development and the Swedish Commission
on Climate Change and Develop ment (the
secretariat of which was hosted by SEI in
Stockholm), as well as to the European
Union's biofuels legislation. SEI also hosted
the Nordic Council of Ministers COP 15 group,
established to provide the Nordic countries
with policy advice in preparation for the UN
climate change negotiations in Copenhagen
(COP 15).
Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs)
has highlighted that a burden sharing regime
both climate science and climate justice
seriously will unavoidably result in mitiga-
tion requirements on developed countries
that exceed 100% by 2025. Our research on
embedded carbon in consumption has also
received much attention: we revealed that
what appear to be net reductions in emissions
for countries such as the UK or Sweden are in
fact signifi cant net increases because rich
nations increasingly import consumer goods,
effectively exporting emissions to other
countries.
dialogue on climate and development with,
among others, representatives for the Group
of 77 developing nations in collaboration with
the UN. Together with partners in China, SEI
initiated strategic research on the economics
of climate change in China as a support to
the international climate negotiations. We
launched a new scientifi c journal, Climate and
Development (based at SEI and published by
Earthscan), at the UN climate change negotia-
tions in Pozna ´n (COP 14). SEI and the UN
Environment Programme (UNEP) also held a
workshop of the Global Atmospheric Pollu-
tion Forum on the links between mitigating
climate change and reducing air pollution.
helped to communicate to the policy arena
the latest science on climate change and the
risk of positive feedbacks from the Earth
system. On the basis of this science, the
European Commission tightened its climate
stabilisation target.
the Centre, together with the International
Council for Science (ICSU) and the Resilience
Alliance, hosted the fi rst international
resilience science conference. An amazing
Resilience Centre as a vital global nexus for
trans-disciplinary resilience research.
partnership, strengthening the research
profi le of SEI and the science-policy interface
of the Resilience Centre. Gordon Goodman
loved the fact that the Centre was a collabor-
ation between SEI, Stockholm University,
and the Beijer Institute at the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences. After all, The Beijer
Institute was the predecessor of SEI in the
we have joined forces in our common cause to
contribute new knowledge for a sustainable
world.
Lars Anell Chair of the Board