All posts by Catherine Early

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  Harvard group urges governments to focus on preventing pandemics, not responding to them

  An expert group convened by the USA’s Harvard University has urged governments to focus on preventing the creation of new viruses, noting that preventive work is vastly cheaper than responding

  • Posted August 18, 2021
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  Canada mandates COVID-19 vaccination for all federal workers

  All federal government workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of September, according to an announcement made by the government of Canada on Friday. A further vaccine mandate

  • Posted August 16, 2021
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  Getting everyone into the COVID-19 vaccination queue

  Countries have made huge efforts to access and distribute vaccines – but to achieve ‘herd immunity’, they need to get them into the arms of the majority of their adult

  • Posted July 14, 2021
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  Lessons learned: policy must focus on pandemic prevention, not just preparedness

  As the world looks to a future after COVID-19, experts are urging governments to concentrate on preventing viruses from spilling over into humans. But this takes cross-departmental co-ordination, bringing together

  • Posted May 18, 2021
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  From retrofits to investment vehicles: building the infrastructure for green growth

  To ‘build back better’, governments must oversee the creation of new infrastructures to decarbonise their economies. At a recent webinar, senior officials from the OECD, Estonia and the Czech Republic

  • Posted April 9, 2021
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  Pandemic spending failing to build back better so far, report finds

  Just 2.5% of all spending – and 18% of long-term economic recovery measures – announced by governments in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic last year is earmarked for green

  • Posted March 11, 2021
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  Trust in public services soars in New Zealand due to handling of COVID-19

  Trust in New Zealand’s public sector surged between December 2019 and December 2020 following the government’s successful response to COVID-19, according to results from an online survey. More than two-thirds

  • Posted February 23, 2021
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  Black comedy of errors: how the UK accidentally left the Single Market, and other Brexit stories

  Newly published interviews with key figures involved in Brexit reveal how a lack of expertise led to major mistakes – and suggest that the UK government deliberately built an inexperienced

  • Posted February 16, 2021
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  Biden’s challenge: rebuilding climate expertise in government

  Climate change was central to US President Joe Biden’s election campaign. But to deliver his promises he will need to rebuild personnel, budgets and regulation. Catherine Early reports “The Trump

  • Posted January 20, 2021
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  Learning from our mistakes: the post-COVID recovery

  After the financial crisis, a slow and imbalanced recovery fostered a new set of social, health, economic and political problems. At a GGF webinar, expert panellists discussed how policymakers can

  • Posted January 3, 2021
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