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Podcast Date 4 Dec 2020 Brussels woos Biden Stephen Adams, Senior Director, Tom White, Director, and Miranda Lutz, Senior Associate, discuss the tensions in the EU's published strategy for rapprochement with the incoming Biden administration, what it means... Read more
Research Date 26 Nov 2020 Balancing innovation, pricing and supply chain resilience in the EU Pharma Strategy The pharmaceutical strategy published on Wednesday outlines the European Commission’s plan for the sector over the next five years. Its central message is clear: the EU needs to increase cooperation... Read more
Research Date 25 Nov 2020 Money, power and respect in the EU’s latest crisis After relief at the agreement on EU spending priorities for 2021-27, the Brussels establishment was caught off-guard last week by vetoes from Hungary and Poland over the obscure-sounding “rule of... Read more
Research Date 25 Nov 2020 As Biden’s cabinet takes shape, Yellen’s appointment as Treasury Secretary emphasises stability over ideology With President-elect Joe Biden’s transition officially underway following the certification of voting results in several key battleground states, Biden has shifted his focus to naming his Cabinet and other key... Read more
Research Date 20 Nov 2020 Nature-based solutions: cost-effective and credible? Not all solutions for mitigation and adaptation to climate change are technological. So-called ‘nature-based’ solutions are rapidly increasing in prominence, successfully breaking through conservation circles to mainstream policy since the... Read more
Research Date 18 Nov 2020 Adaptation and resilience: Who builds? Who pays? Over the last few years, climate finance investment has focused on mitigation over adaptation and resilience. A few things are probably driving this. One is the sense that adaptation and... Read more
Research Date 17 Nov 2020 The race for climate finance leadership Last week, the City of London Corporation and the UK Green Finance Institute hosted a ‘Green Horizon Summit’. At the event, a package of proposals was unveiled by the UK... Read more
Report Date 16 Nov 2020 The National Security and Investment Bill Stephen Adams, Senior Director, and Max von Thun, Senior Associate, presented a webinar on the UK's National Security and Investment Bill currently making its way through Parliament. The bill contains... Read more
Research Date 11 Nov 2020 What decisions are needed for the UK to achieve its hydrogen ambitions? With the prime minister set to make a set-piece speech next week on how the UK meets its net-zero commitment, the big question remains how far he will emphasise the... Read more
Research Date 10 Nov 2020 The pitfalls of vaccine salvation As clinical trials for covid-19 vaccines begin to produce sufficient evidence to begin the regulatory approval process and scale-up manufacture, governments, especially in the UK, face a whole range of... Read more
Research Date 10 Nov 2020 The case for WHO reform The World Health Organisation has not performed well in response to the covid-19 crisis. In a video-conference discussion of EU health ministers on October 30th, it was unanimously agreed that... Read more
Research Date 9 Nov 2020 Guinea, Tanzania, and Côte d’Ivoire: three observations from October’s elections While all eyes have been on the US presidential elections, Guinea, Tanzania and Côte d’Ivoire have all also elected presidents in the last three weeks. In all three countries, the... Read more
Research Date 6 Nov 2020 Three views on the US election UK – Joe Armitage, Senior Associate At this point - with Joe Biden likely to win the presidency - the UK government has probably started to build and strengthen relationships... Read more
Research Date 6 Nov 2020 Climate policy - coming to your plate On November 3rd, Global Counsel hosted a panel discussion on the role of diet in achieving climate objectives. The discussion focused on how likely we are to see forthcoming UK... Read more
Research Date 5 Nov 2020 Democratic déjà vu? Assessing the prospects of US presidential election litigation As Democrats and Republicans anxiously await the final tallies of mail-in and absentee ballots in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina to decide the closely fought US presidential election, both... Read more
Research Date 4 Nov 2020 US Election: A tight race and no landslide for Biden and Dems tempers progressive agenda both domestically and abroad Whatever the outcome of America’s election – which for both the presidency and Senate remained too close to call as of early Wednesday morning in the US – the blowout... Read more
Research Date 30 Oct 2020 Tech and trade: how hot is the Israel-UAE peace deal? Did Israel get a sweet deal with the United Arab Emirates, and the latter little in return? Critics would say yes. Abu Dhabi broke with the traditional Arab position, requiring... Read more
Research Date 29 Oct 2020 Transatlantic reprieve? Implications of a Biden presidency for EU-US trade This week’s decision by the EU to hold off on retaliatory tariffs against US subsidies to the aircraft manufacturer Boeing is a sign of Brussels’ interest in working towards resetting... Read more