Blavatnik School of Government and online: Global tech policy in an unsettled age

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Governments around the world are struggling to keep pace with rapid technological change, from escalating cyber threats to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Emerging technologies are reshaping global markets, transforming security structures, and redefining how power is exercised. Amidst intensifying geopolitical competition, these advances are testing the resilience

UNESCO: What the ocean taught me: UNESCO works to better understand, protect and raise awareness of the ocean

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As the international community gathers in Nice for the United Nations Ocean Conference, from 9 to 13 June, UNESCO is launching a major campaign on 'What the ocean taught me' - and putting forward initiatives to advance ocean research, knowledge and cooperation worldwide within the framework of the UN Ocean Decade.

2025 UN Ocean Conference

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The high-level 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (the 2025 UN Ocean Conference) will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 – 13 June 2025.

Deliberative Polls, Citizens' Conventions and Other Types of Random Assemblies

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Conference on James Fishkin's new book, Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? and two different experiments in citizens' assemblies, in France and the United States, on climate and energy: - the French Citizens’ Convention on Climate/ La Convention citoyenne pour le climat (C3) - and America in One Room (AOR)

DELIBERATIVE APPROACHES TO INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE

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An Essay Series Part of the Democratic Legitimacy for AI Initiative

Greenpeace activists disrupt industrial fishing operation ahead of UN Ocean Conference

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Pacific Ocean – Greenpeace activists have disrupted an industrial longlining fishing operation in the South Pacific Ocean, seizing almost 20 kilometers of fishing gear and freeing nine sharks, including an endangered mako, near Australia and New Zealand.

GEO-7 Summary for Policymakers

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This meeting is co-hosted by the Government of the Republic of Korea and the Korea Environment Institute (KEI). On the side of these two events, the GEO-7 experts will also participate in the 2025 World Environment Day celebrations as well as the Korea Environment Institute Science-policy Forum.

Climate Litigation Updates (May 30, 2025)

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By Margaret Barry and Maria Antonia Tigre May 30, 2025

“Springboard for Solutions”: Highlights from the First Climate Week of 2025 26 May 2025

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UN Climate Change News, 26 May 2025 – The first revamped Climate Week of 2025 concluded in Panama City last week, with valuable progress made and real-world solutions shared across vital areas of work.

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