This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at proposals for sustainable growth to help developing countries ‘build back better’ after COVID-19. The G7 has launched a partnership designed to help developing countries ‘build back better’ after COVID-19. This ambition is coming up against multiple challenges, but the pandemic created an opportunity to transform...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the TTC, its work so far and future challenges. Since its launch in 2021, the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) has become the main platform for US–EU cooperation at the intersection of economics, technology and security. Despite some achievements so far, the TTC has reached...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the factors enabling or inhibiting transatlantic cooperation. With the global economic and strategic centre of gravity shifting eastwards, both Europe and the US are unsurprisingly placing greater focus on the Indo-Pacific. Their respective approaches to the region often overlap but diverge on significant points. These...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at policy lessons from police surveillance in Buenos Aires and São Paulo. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years have driven the rapid development of facial recognition technologies. Jurisdictions around the world have begun to grapple with the question of how to regulate their use....

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the political landscape on Loss and Damage finance, with the aim of increasing understanding. Ranging from extreme drought to apocalyptic floods and rising sea levels, climate change impacts are wreaking ever more severe destruction globally, causing widespread ‘loss and damage’ with disastrous implications for affected...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the shifting trajectory of the Sadrist movement and its implications for Iraq. The populist Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who led the Shia Islamist Sadrist bloc to a shock victory in the October 2021 elections, prompted heightened political instability in the country in 2022 by announcing...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the role of food system transformation in enabling global action on climate change and biodiversity loss. Over the 30 years since the Rio Conventions were initiated to enable international cooperation on climate, biodiversity and land issues, the biodiversity and climate crises have worsened. Action has...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the role international trade will play in the transition to a circular economy. The transition to a circular economy is essential to address the triple threat of pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss. International trade will play a key role in delivering this transition, as...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how refugees and displaced persons nearly always remain outside national energy policy. Access to clean, safe and sustainable energy – the focus of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 – is one of the principal needs of developing-country populations, for cooking, heating, light, communication, study, livelihoods...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at efforts at sustainable forest management as demand for wood and paper products increases. Global demand for wood and paper products is increasing rapidly. While decades of work to tackle trade in illegal timber have established legal and sustainable supply chains for timber and wood-based products...