He set the scene. The ‘top down’ approach to tackling climate change, he said, revolves around the Conference of Parties (COP) where government representatives and other stakeholders gather to ...

In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders who ...

The UK government is to launch a new defence innovation unit that is expected to foster the development of cutting-edge ...

Mark Carney – the former public servant who served both the Department of Finance and central bank in Canada and was governor ...

At the EU defence summit in Brussels earlier this month, the UK prime minister Keir Starmer outlined the government’s commitment to increase spending on defence to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027.

In this interview, Martin Ledolter, managing director of Austria’s Federal Procurement Agency – who will speak in the session ...

UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has said that the government needs to become “happier with innovation” in order to ensure that the state can operate at “maximum power”. In a speech setting out his ...

US president Donald Trump has set out plans to create a ‘Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’ and ‘Digital Asset Stockpile.’ Trump ended the seventh week of his second term as US president by signing an ...

Women are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change, yet rarely enjoy equal representation in climate decision-making, leading to policies that do not adequately address their needs ...