Global Issues Brief

A study of 120 countries shows the Rule of Law Index independently correlates with higher life expectancy, lower neonatal and maternal mortality, and...

EU Climate Policy Developments

• CBAM Extension Risks: European Union officials will soon discuss extending CBAM to downstream products including...

• NAS report boosts confidence attributing hot, dry wildfire weather to warming, now tackling compounding extremes.
• Republicans instead blame Canada...

Extreme heat forced France to shut down nuclear reactors this week, while U.S. and European grids faced surging outages from air-conditioning...

• Aid disruptions from US withdrawal and USAID cuts expose dependency risks, spurring domestic financing in Nigeria and South Africa.
• EU Global...

AI can serve humanity by enabling faster early warnings that save lives amid accelerating climate change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told...

The EU is broadening its ETS and CBAM to cover more emissions, but faces pushback over industrial costs and trade frictions.

• ETS revisions aim to...

Climate Attribution Advances

• 🔥 National Academies Report: National Academies report advances methods for attributing extreme weather events to...

The 2026 UN High-Level Meeting highlighted tensions in global HIV governance amid funding pressures.

• AIDS deaths fell 56% and new infections dropped...

• Welfare CBA finds consumer gains from events like the World Cup exceed emissions costs, though viability falters at higher SCC values.
• Shared...

The National Academies report calls for combining multiple attribution methods and common standards to strengthen links between extreme weather and...

In Lagos, pastor Samuel Akpan bails floodwater from his church after torrential rains, as rising sea levels, erratic rainfall, and unregulated...

A major international study projects temperature-related suicide deaths will increase across every examined region by the 2050s as global temperatures rise, revealing a critical but previously neglected mental health dimension of climate change.

No significant updates today.

Three U.S. institutions pushed back against Trump administration actions Monday, each facing resistance to do so.

• A federal judge voided Trump's...

A new Lancet Haematology Commission reveals women with bleeding disorders face 14-16 year diagnosis delays versus 2 years for men.

Key...

Climate change drives cascading impacts across systems, from intensified European heat waves to declining crop nutrition and wildlife adaptation...

Global health security metrics reveal clear capacity shortfalls, yet translating them into integrated One Health action for threats like AMR remains...

CORSIA, the UN aviation offsetting scheme, is the sole climate deal Trump is unlikely to attack because it demands almost nothing from the US or...

Local climate tools and Asian health strategies together shift focus from global averages to real communities.

• Berkeley Earth's Synthesis delivers...