Editors' Choice 2024

User icon Toby Green
21 February 2024
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Every week, Gary Price and I choose new and noteworthy reports for Policy Matters, a newsletter that goes out to our growing community of registered users. Here are reports we've chosen so far in 2024.


DLUHC: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · 25 March 2024 English

Across the globe many democracies are facing internal fragmentation and polarisation as well as domestic and cross-border political, economic and social challenges. Disillusionment with democracy, the emergence and growth of …


The White House · 26 February 2024 English

President Biden’s National Cybersecurity Strategy outlines two fundamental shifts: the need to both rebalance the responsibility to defend cyberspace and realign incentives to favor long-term cybersecurity investments. In this report, …


ASLCG: Australian Security Leaders Climate Group · 2 May 2024 English

ASLCG was formed in 2021 by a group of senior former military and intelligence leaders concerned that the security implications of climate change were not understood or addressed by governments. …


MC23: Musicians' Census 2023 · 27 March 2024 English

Gender inequity is still a prominent, alarming issue in the music industry, with female musicians facing much higher levels of discrimination, sexual harassment, financial challenges, and structural barriers to career …


ANROWS: Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety · 29 April 2024 English

Workplace technology-facilitated sexual harassment (WTFSH) involves unwelcome and/or threatening sexual conduct using mobile, online and other digital technologies in a workplace context. While much is known about the extent of …


FOEI: Friends of the Earth International · 4 April 2024 English

This report examines U.S. bank financing of meat, dairy, and feed corporations and the sizable climate impact of that financing. As the climate crisis has intensified, U.S. banks have come …


Nuffield Trust · 18 April 2024 English

Following on from our 2022 report looking at the health landscape six years on from Brexit, this report aims to look deeper at key trends we identified in the supply …


Constitution Unit · 21 March 2024 English

This report comes at an important juncture, when public trust in politicians has fallen to an all time low. There is a wealth of evidence from survey data about the …


FWD.us · 14 February 2024 English

New analysis finds that TPS helps protect hundreds of thousands of families while also filling worker shortage gaps in the U.S. workforce. The Biden administration should further expand TPS to …


Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry · 2 May 2024 English

In the aftermath of the October 7 war crimes committed by Hamas, the world has seen the worst wave of antisemitic incidents since the end of the Second World War. …


Autonomy · 21 February 2024 English

One year on from the results of the world’s biggest ever four-day working week pilot which took place in the UK in 2022, companies that took part have reported significant …


The White House · 17 January 2024 English

Since the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability in 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration has fortified its commitment to secure the open-source software ecosystem. In March 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration released the …


GEM: Global Energy Monitor · 27 March 2024 English

Globally last year, oil and gas producers sanctioned and discovered the equivalent of all the proven oil reserves in Europe. They aim to quadruple the amount sanctioned by the end …


Centre for Criminology · 25 February 2024 English

New research shows how people arriving on small boats are being imprisoned for their ‘illegal arrival’. Among those prosecuted are people seeking asylum, victims of trafficking and torture, and children …


FCDO: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · 10 April 2024 English

This annual publication provides an overview of the provisional UK aid spending for 2023 (Official Development Assistance). It also provides comparisons with 2022 spend. It includes: • Total UK ODA …


Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine · 15 March 2024 English

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine hereby submits its report to the Human Rights Council, pursuant to the Council’s resolution 52/32, which renewed its initial mandate. Two years …


Feedback · 18 March 2024 English

This report maps the global financial flows to the world’s largest 55 industrial livestock companies – spanning the beef, dairy, pork, poultry, and animal feed sectors – as an update …


ITEP: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy · 29 February 2024 English

The tax overhaul signed into law by former President Donald Trump in 2017 cut the federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, but during the first …


17 April 2024 English

Plastics show the strongest production growth of all bulk materials over the last decade. The industry’s current growth trajectory is exponential and plastic production is expected to double or triple …


City of New York, New York · 3 April 2024 English

This is the first comprehensive study of environmental inequalities produced by any city in the United States. Low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately impacted by environmental inequities, due …