Christian Turner, the incoming UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, has been appointed a Visiting Public Leadership Fellow at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government.

As countries meet at COP30 in the Amazon, a new survey of climate-related laws and regulations finds new and strengthened climate policies across the world, especially in Asia and emerging markets. Overall, however, policies remain insufficient to close the gap between targets and actions and prevent severe climate impacts.