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.


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 …


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. …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


Google (United States) · 25 April 2024 English

Generative AI is one of the rare technologies powerful enough to accelerate overall economic growth---what economists call a “general-purpose technology.” These innovations have the potential to positively transform economies and …


Creative Australia · 9 April 2024 English

Australia is host to a wide range of music festivals which play an important role in Australia’s live music sector and provide positive benefits to our society and our economy. …


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 …


WWA: World Weather Attribution · 22 February 2024 English

During the early days of February 2024, a low-pressure system formed along the coast of central Chile, a well-known phenomenon affecting the western coast of subtropical South America, known as …


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 …


Bullard Center: Robert D. Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University · 7 May 2024 English

“Liquefying the Gulf Coast” examines how liquefied natural gas production disproportionately harms low-income communities and communities of color in Lousiana and Texas. The report examines the social, environmental, economic, and …


ALA: American Lung Association · 24 April 2024 English

"State of the Air" is the American Lung Association's annual national air quality "report card." It uses the most recent air pollution data, compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …


ARL: Association of Research Libraries · 14 February 2024 English

Over the last 15 years, an increasing number of US funding agencies have required the management and broad sharing of research data1 and other related research outputs to accelerate the …


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 …


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 …


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 …


Jo Cox Foundation · 24 January 2024 English

Abuse and intimidation of our elected representatives – including violence towards them – is one of the biggest threats to our democracy in the UK. Run by The Jo Cox …


GFI: Green Finance Institute · 24 April 2024 English

The objective of this project was to assess the materiality of nature-related risks to the UK financial sector both in the near-term and the longer-term. At least half of global …


Imagining the Digital Future · 29 February 2024 English

As uses of artificial intelligence (AI) systems expand, a two-part research study reveals a broad range of opinions as to how complicated and, at times, disorienting these life-changing digital tools …


WHR: World Happiness Report · 20 March 2024 English

In this issue of the World Happiness Report we focus on the happiness of people at different stages of life. In the seven ages of man in Shakespeare’s As You …


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 …


AERA: American Educational Research Association · 12 April 2024 English

Gender and racially based employment disparities, differences in perceptions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and workplace discrimination remain significant issues in the field of educational measurement, according to this …


ACAP: Australian Centre for Advanced Voltaics · 27 March 2024 English

End-of-life management is becoming an increasingly important consideration in the solar industry. Australia has committed to reduce its CO2 emissions by 43% by 2030 compared to 2005, then to reach …


Canada. Parliament. House of Commons · 19 March 2024 English

In February 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada released Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), an important decision about the law on assisted dying. The decision found that the Criminal Code …


Centre for Cities · 16 April 2024 English

A widely held (and sensible) view is that policy making should be based on evidence. But it often isn’t. This paper considers why this is the case for local government …


RDI: Renew Democracy Initiative · 17 September 2023 English

As the human and financial toll of Putin’s illegal war climbs with each passing day, there is a growing global consensus that Russia has an obligation to pay for the …


Creative Australia · 6 May 2024 English

This is the seventh in a longitudinal study, carried out over the last four decades by Professor Throsby and colleagues at Macquarie University, with support from Creative Australia (previously the …


The Future of Free Speech · 21 February 2024 English

This paper, published by The Future of Free Speech in February 2024, contributes to the discussion on free speech in generative AI. The paper reviews the policies of six major …


EIU: Economist Intelligence Unit · 22 February 2024 English

Two years on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia occupies almost a fifth of Ukraine’s territory, including in Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. Our latest report provides businesses with …


Oceana · 3 April 2024 English

According to Oceana’s new report, Amazon generated 208 million pounds of plastic packaging waste for all transactions in the United States in 2022, a 9.6% increase over Oceana’s estimate for …


WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization · 2 May 2024 English

This study explores the evolution and success drivers of the global video game industry, focusing on key hubs within Finland, Poland, Japan, and the United States. Using a qualitative methodology, …


The Williams Institute · 14 February 2024 English

This report provides an up-to-date look at the enforcement of HIV criminal laws in Ohio. The Williams Institute analyzed data from Ohio’s Incident-Based Reporting System (OIBRS) about HIV-related criminal incidents …


Walk Free · 16 June 2023 English

The Global Slavery Index reveals the number of people living in modern slavery has grown since 2018 against a backdrop of increasing and more complex conflicts, widespread environmental degradation, climate-induced …


Future of Church Safeguarding · 21 February 2024 English

Professor Jay was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York in July 2023 to independently: provide options and recommendations for how a new independent safeguarding and …


Humanitarian Outcomes · 27 March 2024 English

Since the beginning of the current conflict, precipitated by the attack on Israel by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and followed by a major military offensive by Israel, humanitarian aid …


ANROWS: Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety · 23 April 2024 English

This report is the second publication from the research project “An exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healing programs that respond to domestic and family violence and sexual assault”. …


OHE: Office of Health Economics · 22 April 2024 English

Adult vaccines can return up to 19 times their initial investment to society, when their significant benefits beyond the healthcare system are monetised. This report demonstrates the health and socioeconomic …


Finance for the Future · 5 April 2024 English

The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 seeks to answer the question that every journalist loves to ask of every politician, which is ‘how are you going to pay for it?', whatever …


WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization · 2 May 2024 English

Economic diversification is a tough process. It asks policymakers difficult questions about which areas to support, which not to support, and where untapped potential lies. It also requires the flexibility …


NWSA: National Women's Studies Association · 4 April 2024 English

Political fights over higher education’s purpose continue to roil institutions throughout the United States. These specific attempts to curtail our field are occurring within a broader national context that is …


Liberties: The Civil Liberties Union for Europe · 18 March 2024 English

This is the fifth edition of Liberties’ coordinated report on the state of rule of law in the EU. The report lays out the most striking developments concerning the rule …