All posts tagged "China"

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  Current climate policy ‘doomed to fail’, says former UK PM Tony Blair

  Net zero policies are increasingly viewed as “unaffordable, ineffective, or politically toxic” and efforts to phase out fossil fuels in the short term are “doomed to fail”, according to a

  • Posted May 1, 2025
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  Paris Agreement goals out of reach unless top emitters step up, study warns

  Collective efforts “still fall far short” of what is needed to limit global warming to 1.5C of pre-industrial levels, according to research by the World Resources Institute (WRI). The study

  • Posted April 24, 2025
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  UK to introduce performance-related pay for civil servants, Kenya declares climate change a national security threat: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence In this edition: UK to introduce performance-related pay for civil servants The UK government will introduce a performance-related pay regime

  • Posted May 16, 2024
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  Senior US official defends telework policy – as Canadian government wants officials in the office three days a week

  Welcome to this month’s Global Government Forum Management and Workforce Monitor This month, we cover the latest thinking on remote working, a payroll hack at the UK’s Ministry of Defence,

  • Posted May 7, 2024
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  Defeating disinformation: how to create a healthier national conversation

  Bad actors are poisoning the information well from which populations drink in the democratic world. In the final part of our investigation into overseas interference in elections, Matt Ross asks

  • Posted February 11, 2024
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  Knowing and showing: how intelligence and transparency can combat electoral interference

  For a decade, hostile powers overseas have been interfering in elections and stoking public anger in Europe and North America – and the domestic beneficiaries of these operations often stymie

  • Posted February 4, 2024
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  A subtle opponent: China’s influence operations

  China’s attempts to influence electorates in the democratic world are far more targeted and less destructive than the tactics deployed by Russia – but that doesn’t make them any less

  • Posted January 28, 2024
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  Global triggers: why these five big issues could cause significant problems in 2024

  The tensions between the US and China made the global economy shudder in 2023. The ramifications of the Ukrainian war echoed beyond the country’s border. In Africa, the coup d’état

  • Posted January 8, 2024
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  Canadian government bans WeChat and Kaspersky on officials’ devices; US agencies shown paths to resilience in cross-sector report: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Canadian government bans WeChat and Kaspersky on officials’ devices The federal government of Canada has

  • Posted November 9, 2023
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  The fight for the skies: how governments are battling in the era of astropolitics

  In his 2015 book Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall detailed the historical and geographical factors that explain Putin’s 2022 attack on Ukraine. Now, he warns, the global race for resources

  • Posted September 26, 2023
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