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.


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …