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This week, over 15,000 delegates, including environment ministers from around the world and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be attending the Conference on Biological Diversity (CBD) or ‘COP15’ which...

Reversing the environmental damage and imbalances that have become accepted as structural features of our economic system requires transformational, not marginal, solutions. Making things less bad is just not good...

Despite years of lobbying for awareness and action, recognition of the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is still lagging compared to its urgency. For example, a recent survey across 27...

Welcome back to the Global Month Ahead, our monthly podcast looking at the stories that will define the month to come. In each episode, Global Macro Associate Director Isabelle Trick...

Today on the podcast, Conan D'Arcy talks to Elizabeth Denham, the former UK Information Commissioner at the ICO and current International Adviser at Baker McKenzie. They talk through the past...

Following several leader-level summits in Asia, including ASEAN in Cambodia; G20 in Bali, and APEC in Thailand, Asian countries continue to take an increasingly active role in dealing with global...

The metaverse term was coined thirty years ago, and until recently was part science fiction, part speculation. But with Facebooks rebranding as Meta last year, an increasing consumer acceptance of...

This week’s EU energy council comes at an inflection point in the energy crisis. It will be a moment to take stock of progress on short-term challenges: the new gas...

The bankruptcy of major cryptocurrency exchange FTX marks a major moment in the ongoing drive to regulate digital assets within the United States, likely dwarfing the impact seen by the...

In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25%, according to research by the World Health Organization. Is there a...

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the long-awaited Autumn Statement yesterday, detailing the new government’s tax and spend commitments alongside the OBR’s economic forecast. The delay of the budget provided Sunak...

This week on Top in Tech, Conan D'Arcy is joined by Senior Associate Ugonma Nwankwo to check in on the policy implications of the US midterms and Elon Musk's purchase...

As part of the Global Counsel’s Social Impact Programme, the GC team in Brussels recently hosted a roundtable in partnership with Frontline, a Berlin-based research and advisory start-up dedicated to...

Joe Biden's Democratic Party overperformed expectations in the United States midterm elections, surprising Washington and European observers and plunging Donald Trump and the Republican Party into newfound turmoil . While...

The court system in England and Wales is characterised by lengthy delays and a substantial backlog of cases. These problems are significant barriers to access to justice and have been...

In the latest in our geopolitics series, practice director Jon Garvie is joined by Paola Subacchi, Professor of International Economics and Chair Advisory Board at the Global Policy Institute at...

The role of disinformation in elections was brought to light for the first time during the 2016 US presidential race. Six years later, Mandiant researchers have again raised concerns about...

Whilst attention in the UK has been directed towards several months of political turmoil, a key issue in the months to come is overcoming the NHS workforce and backlog crisis...