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.


United States of Care · 29 May 2024 English

Hospital acquisitions of private provider practices are accelerating, and hospitals are at the center of a massive market failure that is leading to reduced competition, increased prices, and ultimately unfair …


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 …


IPEN: International Pollutants Elimination Network · 29 May 2024 English

This report reveals high levels of toxic PFAS chemicals in nearly all surface and tap water samples collected near industrial areas that are centers of the textiles industry throughout and …


UK in a Changing Europe · 18 June 2024 English

UK-EU relations have not been a central issue in this election campaign. Yet this does not mean it will not be a major policy challenge following the election. This report …


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 …


Pew Charitable Trusts · 11 April 2024 English

A state of the city report released as part of Pew Trust's Philadelphia Research and Policy Initiative which seeks to inform discussions on important issues facing the city and the …


Toda Peace Institute · 15 May 2024 English

The Pacific region is a climate change hotspot. The effects of climate change, such as sea level rise, coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion, ocean warming, increase of extreme weather events (droughts …


ICAN: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons · 17 June 2024 English

In 2023, the nine nuclear-armed states spent $10.8 billion (13.4%) more on their nuclear arsenals than the year before, a total of $91.4 billion. In 2023, twenty companies working on …


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 …