Policy Briefs from the Global Governance Institute

GGI Workshop Report. April 2025.

Ahead of a major international conference on halting the loss of nature, this policy brief explores the current state of play in global biodiversity governance.

This workshop report explores different perspectives on the role of economic growth in supporting socially and environmentally sustainable societies.

Loss and damage is expected to be a key issue at the upcoming climate summit in Glasgow (COP26). This policy brief explores how prominently it features in Nationally Determined Contributions.

This report explores the prospects of post-pandemic recovery efforts to promote systemic change and greater resilience to future complex risks.

This report explores the potential for integrated governance at the interface of climate change and biodiversity and why this is key to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a particular focus on SDG 3 on good health and well-being.

This paper explores the implications of complexity thinking for governing global catastrophic risks such as climate change, ecological collapse and misaligned artificial general intelligence.

This Policy Brief sheds light on a number of central aspects associated with national-level reporting of information related to loss and damage under the Paris Agreement's Transparency Framework.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most serious and most complex global challenges of our times. Regulation will be an essential component of effectively addressing AMR on the global, regional and national level.

This discussion brief serves as the summary of a half-day workshop, hosted jointly by the GGI’s Global Health Thematic Directorate and UCL STEaPP on 22 January 2019.

What is global public policy and which theoretical, practical and normative issues does it raise? This Policy Brief addresses priorities for future cross-disciplinary research and practice.

This Policy Brief reviews evidence on why, when and how states impose restrictions on civil society organisations and discusses possible strategies to respond to state repression.

This Policy Brief reflects on the potential of the 2015 Paris Agreement to drive forward effective climate governance, the challenges of mobilising treaty implementation and possible pathways forward.

With just four months until the next climate summit (COP 21) kicks off in Paris, this policy brief takes stock of what is likely to be the biggest global governance challenge of the 21st century.

This Policy Brief looks at how the International Criminal Court (ICC) can be strengthened.