Call for review and comment on IAIA’s Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Guidance for Renewable Energy

Deadline: June 15th, 2023 

The International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) launched a multi-phase initiative to develop and promote guidance for using strategic environmental assessment (SEA) for renewable energy.

IAIA has engaged Barry Dalal-Clayton and Miles Scott-Brown to lead this critical initiative, which aims to develop guidance for SEA for renewable energy and promote the use of the guidance for SEAs undertaken for policies, plans, and programs that support the transition towards renewable energy with a low-carbon future.

As part of the development phase, we are pleased to announce that the preliminary draft of a guidance document on the use of SEA for renewable energy is available for feedback until the 15th of June, 2023.

We invite ISOCARP’s global network to share this opportunity and contribute with their expertise in urban and regional planning to provide valuable insights to this initiative as follows: 

  • If you have only general comments, these will be helpful (if only to know that you find the materials helpful and on the right track)
  • Provide your specific suggestions directly into the text of a chapter Word file (which you can request), using track change mode to help us fully understand your suggested changes. We would ask you to refrain from general comments in the text but provide them as above
  • We have included examples throughout the text to exemplify practice or to illustrate key points. But there may be better examples or ones that are more specific to renewable energy that you know about. Please provide these to us to show initiatives in a broad range of countries
  • For any insertions – and particularly where you cite data or provide an example, figure, table, box, image, etc. –  please provide a full reference  [insert the citation in the text – we will collate it into the reference section ourselves] and a working url where appropriate
  • For images you might provide, we may need permission to use – so please indicate the source (url or otherwise)
  • If you have examples of SEAs applied to renewable energy in other languages please also provide them to us 


We thank you for your interest and contribution to this important initiative.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the IAIA team at SEA4renewables@gmail.com