Publications

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Brief 08 Nov 2025

Lessons from the Post-War Economic Order: Toward a Just Transition Framework

Critical lessons regarding innovation, finance and cooperation can guide a just transition today.

Report 07 Nov 2025

Complexity as a Catalyst: Enabling Global Environmental Change in a Deeply Divided World

How complexity thinking can inform adaptive climate governance and diplomacy in an era of division and interdependence.

Report 07 Nov 2025

The Politics of Global Climate Governance Reform

Pathways to strengthen global climate governance and deliver on international climate commitments.

Brief 25 Oct 2025

Solar Radiation Modification

Brief of the Secretary General's Scientific Advisory Board.

Brief 25 Oct 2025

Quantum Computing

Brief of the Secretary General's Scientific Advisory Board.

Brief 25 Oct 2025

Neurotechnology

Brief of the Secretary General's Scientific Advisory Board.

Brief 25 Oct 2025

Synthetic Biology

Brief of the Secretary General's Scientific Advisory Board.

Brief 22 Oct 2025

A Full-Spectrum Approach to Climate Finance

How climate finance can be reformed to deliver the Baku-Belém Roadmap’s US$1.3 trillion annual goal by 2035.

Brief 10 Oct 2025

A Systematic Approach to Institutional Mimicry

A guide to using institutional mimicry wisely in designing effective multilateral institutions.

Report 09 Oct 2025

Accelerating Defossilization

Proposals to implement the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and Climate Change.