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.


DEFRA: Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs · 15 January 2024 English

This report presents the findings of a comprehensive two-year evaluation of the Green Social Prescribing (GSP) project, which aimed to improve mental health outcomes through nature-based activities across England. Conducted …


SMF: Social Market Foundation · 27 August 2024 English

This report, supported by Santander and Teneo, investigates the prevalence, impact, and global interconnectedness of consumer fraud. It draws upon data from over 28,000 survey participants across 15 countries, examining …


PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 2 December 2024 English

This comprehensive report, prepared for the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), examines how unsustainable land management practices are …


The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal · 4 June 2024 English

The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report is a global assessment of the state of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and the gap we need to close.


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 …


I-Claim: mproving the Living and Labour Conditions of Irregularised Migrant Households in Europe · 17 April 2024 English

This report examines the legal and policy infrastructures of irregular migration in the United Kingdom (UK). It investigates the intersection between immigration, labour and welfare regimes and how they contribute …


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 …


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 …


New York Public Library · 27 November 2024 English

This white paper explores the impact of public libraries on individual and community well-being through the lens of positive psychology. It results from a collaboration between The New York Public …


CGC: Center for the Governance of Change · 17 April 2024 English

The report highlights the emerging threat of cognitive warfare, which involves manipulating cognitive processes to disrupt societies and destabilize democratic institutions. It stresses the importance of raising awareness about these …