As countries meet at COP29 in Baku, a new study provides the most detailed view yet of how key economic rules globally are aligning – or not – to climate goals.

Outsourcing adult social care services in England to the private sector since the 1980s has led to worse care and should be rolled back, argue researchers from the Blavatnik School of Government and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford University, in The British Medical Journal today. They suggest that removing the profit motive would help improve quality and reduce inequities. 

Advancing net zero regulation and policy that is effective, rigorous and equitable, through the Climate Policy Monitor; research on key dilemmas holding back effective regulation for net zero; collaboration with governments; and education and capacity-building.

Whether they are heads of governments or of businesses, leaders everywhere have to grapple with the outrage that characterises our modern times, according to a new book by Karthik Ramanna, inspired by his teaching on the Blavatnik School’s Master of Public Policy.