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BRIEFS
March 01, 2025
This brief sets out options for the UK's Treasury in the use of the aid budget for meeting refugee-related costs.
The current approach is deeply problematic. It fails to deliver accounting officer responsibility for value for money, having contributed to significant unnecessary expenditure on refu...
BRIEFS
November 07, 2024
How committed is each country to tackling climate change at home and to helping developing countries? We consider nine key indicators on the world’s major economies spanning their climate contributions in three areas: international finance, policy, and emissions. Indicators are calculated to be comp...
BRIEFS
October 08, 2024
There is a major under-supply of financing for climate adaptation. This under-supply is expected to continue, and to grow. The 2009 commitment made by high-income countries to provide US$100 billion per year in climate finance was only achieved in 2022, two years late, with only US$32.4 billion (28 ...
BRIEFS
September 30, 2024
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is responsible for a large and growing burden of mortality, morbidity, and economic impacts. This is due to three underlying problems: lack of access to essential antimicrobials, insufficient stewardship of these drugs to prevent overuse and misuse, and a dearth of inn...
BRIEFS
September 24, 2024
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a critical tool, both for gaining the support of domestic voters and stakeholders for carbon pricing; and in incentivizing other major economies—including the US, China, and India—to accelerate their plans to tackle carbon in industry. Already, t...
BRIEFS
September 18, 2024
EU member states have ambitious green transition targets and healthcare strategies in place, requiring the relevant sectors to expand. Yet these sectors are already suffering from large workforce shortages. Expanding skilled migration from third countries to the EU to meet these shortages risks stri...
BRIEFS
September 17, 2024
Half of children in poor countries have lead poisoning which undermines their lifelong health and education. Prevention of lead exposure can be highly cost-effective and yet is grossly underfunded. We propose that the European Commission should pledge to end lead poisoning within the European Union,...
