This report from UK think tank the Centre for London looks at London's town centres and high streets. Town centres are at the heart of London’s communities, with more than a third of Londoners living within 200 metres of a high street. Yet many of our high streets have been on life support for years,...

This report from UK think tank Green Alliance looks at the regulation needed to help switch consumers to zero emission vehicles.  The government’s ambition to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030 must be translated into near term action. As the transition to clean vehicles depends on an adequate supply of zero emission vehicles,...

This report from UK think tank the Constitution Unit is the final report of the Working Group on Irish reunification. This report examines how any future referendums on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland would best be designed and conducted.

This report from UK think tank CLES looks at how the UK has failed to address longstanding geographical disparities in economic and social conditions. Local economic development should serve to ensure that economic gains are delivering social benefits at scale and are working within environmentally sustainable limits. Yet, at the latest count,14 million people are...

This report from UK think tank the IIED discusses unfinished business and pandemic disruption. There are clear challenges and opportunities for getting climate negotiations on track in 2021. After a lacklustre COP25, the vaunted 2020 ‘super year’ designed to reset the UNFCCC process succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, despite rolling postponements, the UNFCCC process...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at healthcare rationing in the NHS before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Robert Sutton, a junior doctor in Wales and recent graduate of the University of Oxford Medical School, explains how the NHS is failing to meet its central goal: The National Health...

This report from UK think tank the IIED looks at perspectives from the Least Developed Countries. Billed as a ‘super year’ for climate diplomacy, international efforts to address the climate crisis in 2020 were among the myriad processes affected by COVID-19. Amid worldwide travel restrictions and lockdown measures, climate diplomacy moved to virtual mode. This...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at how to tackle workforce challenges in adult social care. The Work Foundation and Totaljobs have developed a new guide to tackle workforce challenges in adult social care through research with care workers and engagement with providers and expert stakeholders.With an estimated workforce of 1.52...

This report from UK think tank the IIED looks at the LDC gaps and needs in greenhouse gas inventory reporting. From 2024, all countries will face more stringent reporting requirements on their climate action under the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework (ETF). For developing countries — and the least developed countries (LDCs) in particular —...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies looks at how civic space has changed during the pandemic. Since long before the Covid-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, civic space has been changing all over the globe, generally becoming more restricted and hazardous. The pandemic brought the suspension of many fundamental freedoms in...