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.


Creative Australia · 6 May 2024 English

This report is Creative Australia’s summary of and response to Artists as Workers: An economic study of professional artists in Australia by Professor David Throsby and Katya Petetskaya, Department of …


28 October 2024 English

Each year, Future Earth, The Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme gather leading scholars from around the world to review the most pressing findings in climate research. This …


CMS: Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals · 12 February 2024 English

This report, the first ever State of the World’s Migratory Species, provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the conservation status of migratory species. It summarizes their current status and …


PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 17 April 2024 English

Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% by 2050 due to climate change. …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 3 September 2024 English

This research note, published in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, investigates the spread and impact of GPT-fabricated scientific papers found on Google Scholar. The study explores the characteristics of …


7 June 2024 English

Israel and Hamas have been engaged in a conflict in the Gaza strip since October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise incursion into Israel killing more than one thousand …


GRISS-UTPL Seismic Engineering and Seismology Research Group · 2020 English

In the period from 1960 to 1998, there have been 30 major bridge collapses worldwide due to ship or barge collision, with a total loss of life of 321 people. …


SIPRI: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute · 22 April 2024 English

Total global military expenditure reached $2443 billion in 2023, an increase of 6.8 per cent in real terms from 2022. This was the steepest year-on-year increase since 2009. The 10 …


22 December 2023 English

Gathering data on sexual orientation and gender identity can help educational institutions to better understand the experiences of their lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students, faculty and staff and …


CISA: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency · 20 December 2023 English

Memory safety vulnerabilities are the most prevalent type of disclosed software vulnerability.1,2,3 They are a class of well-known and common coding errors that malicious actors routinely exploit. These vulnerabilities represent …