STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMEN T INSTITUTE U.S . - ANNUAL REPORT 2015

Collectively these efforts have attracted the attention of USAID Headquarters, which has invited SEI to join a panel supporting the development of a new Agency strategy on Water Security and the CAF, which would like to apply the RDS approach to the development of new water sector investments in Bolivia. [...] This work, utilizing the integration of web-based GIS tools that drive a scenario analysis tool accessed via the cloud, has attracted the attention of major Indian periodicals as a way to account for the transformation of water inputs to a city into the creation of economic (metabolic) activity and the generation of waste products. [...] 2015 ANNUAL REPORT investments in special context, tracing the temporal and spatial evolution of freshwater and brackish wetlands and relating those to hydrologic and water management factors, and, in collaboration with colleagues in the Stockholm Center, tracking the connection between coffee and soy production in South America and consumers around the world. [...] The overall goal of the program is to better understand the implications of current energy use in the developing world and to explore pathways that result in reduced impacts and more sustainable outcomes. [...] 4.2 Policy engagement 4.2.1 Contributing to the development of SEI’s approaches to policy engagement and influence In 2015, the Center contributed to policy engagement and impact through a range of conduits: Across various projects, as highlighted in Section 2, we engaged directly with policy makers, from advising the Governor’s staff on the design and features of Washington’s draft State Clean.