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.


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. …


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 …


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 …


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 …


ICCCAD: International Centre for Climate Change and Development · 27 February 2024 English

Bangladesh’s geography and low-lying delta topography make it particularly vulnerable to climate change, ranking highly on the list of countries most prone to climate devastation. Bangladesh has been on the …


12 May 2024

This paper estimates that the macroeconomic damages from climate change are six times larger than previously thought. We exploit natural variability in global temper- ature and rely on time-series variation. …


Oil Change International · 9 April 2024

This new report, “Public Enemies: Assessing MDB and G20 international finance institutions’ energy finance” looks at G20 country and MDB traceable international public finance for fossil fuels from 2020-2022 and …


WMO: World Meteorological Organisation · 19 March 2024

The publication provides a summary on the state of the climate indicators in 2023 with sections on key climate indicators, extreme events and impacts. The indicators include global temperatures, greenhouse …