Bangkok - 03 Jul 2026.Governments across Asia and the Pacific today agreed a new regional agenda to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution through more coordinated action, reflecting growing recognition that the region's most pressing environmental challenges cannot be solved in isolation.

​In this DemocracyNext webinar, we launch From Projects to Permanence: Citizens' Assemblies as New Democratic Institutions in Cities and Regions, a paper reflecting on the lessons from DemocracyNext's Cities Programme - our experience advising two cities and two regions across three continents: Esch-sur-Alzette, Vilnius, Kerewan, and Central Oregon.

23 June, Paris: A new global evidence review commissioned by IFPIM in partnership with DW Akademie and UNESCO, entitled The Value of Journalism: Global evidence on why media matters to economics, national security and crises, demonstrates that free and independent media has a profound and positive impact on societies globally.

On 24 June 2026, the 14th edition of the KidsRights IndexOpens external was published. The Index is the result of a longstanding collaboration between KidsRights, the International Institute of Social Studies and Erasmus School of EconomicsOpens external.