Swithin Lui works on topics across development, tracking climate action, and the environment. He advises and supports national governments on climate planning and processes in multiple regions, focusing on implementing low-carbon policies to simultaneously achieve climate and domestic development objectives, and facilitating stakeholder coalitions on long-term energy transitions. Swithin is a long-standing contributor and country lead for the Climate Action Tracker, where he quantifies countries’ mitigation policies and targets and projects countries’ medium-term GHG emission trajectories. Prior to joining NewClimate Institute, Swithin worked as a researcher collaborating with scientists, organisations, and policymakers across Southeast Asia to influence public policy issues concerning land-use change, ecosystem services and natural resource management. Swithin holds a MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a background in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences. 

No more fuel to the fire
Publication date 11 Nov 2022

From energy crisis to transition in Southeast Asia The global energy crisis has exposed weaknesses in energy systems across Southeast...

CAT Briefing: Global reaction to energy crisis risks zero carbon transition
Publication date 08 Jun 2022

The world is going through a major energy crisis as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, the next few years are...

Landscape for mitigation and finance in Georgia’s urban mobility sector
Publication date 01 Apr 2022

This report provides an overview of the landscape for urban mobility mitigation measures for Georgia. It presents a comprehensive...

Sector-level policy gaps for climate change mitigation in Georgia
Publication date 01 Apr 2022

Summary of policy coverage and ambition raising potential This report assesses Georgia’s sectoral mitigation policy coverage by...

Beyond Net Zero: Empowering Climate Mitigation by Linking to Development Goals
Publication date 12 Nov 2021

This report focuses on how countries that are dealing with climate change planning can ensure that these plans are integrated into...

National 1.5 °C wind and solar benchmarks

A significant amount of GHGs contributing to the climate crisis are emitted from the power sector, through the combustion of fossil...

Advancing the COMPASS toolbox to assess climate action

NewClimate Institute is an implementing partner of the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), supporting its work to...

Clean, Affordable and Secure Energy (CASE) for Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia (SEA) is the fastest developing region in the world with an energy demand projected to grow by 70% in the next 20 years...

Climate Action Tracker - Climate Governance Series

On behalf of ClimateWorks Foundation, NewClimate Institute and Climate Analytics developed the Climate Action Tracker’s Climate...

Capacity building for integrated and ambitious climate policy planning in Georgia and Mongolia

NewClimate Institute, as an implementing partner of GIZ, supports the Governments of Georgia and Mongolia with the further development...

CAAT - Climate Action Aggregation Tool

The ICAT Climate Action Aggregation Tool (CAAT) guides users in a step-by-step process to define a research scope, compile non-state...

Event: Supporting the narrative of the energy transition in Southeast Asia
Venue SB 56, Bonn
Date 11 Jun 2022
Start time 04:45 pm

This event described the status of the energy transition in various Southeast Asian countries and illustrates, how research-based...

Event: Achieving Net Zero: Opportunities to close the gap to 1.5◦C in Europe and beyond
Venue COP25
Date 06 Dec 2019

Louise Jeffery, Swithin Lui (both NewClimate), Claire Stockwell, Paola Yanguas Parra and Andreas Geiges (all Climate Analytics)...

Enhancing national climate ambition through city and business climate change targets: a whole-of-society approach
Publication date 10 Feb 2021

A new tool to evaluate integrated climate action of non-state and subnational actors The world now faces a critical juncture as...

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