Published December 3, 2025 By Luisa Gómez, CIEL Senior Attorney at the Climate and Energy Program.

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has received a transformative £10 million gift from LSE alumnus Johannes Huth to launch the Huth Initiative for a New Political Economy (HINPE) - a major programme that will unite world-leading research and policy engagement to shape a new economic model for the 21st century.

The Geneva Academy brought together leading scholars and practitioners for a closed expert workshop titled “Genocide in War”, examining the complex legal and conceptual relationship between armed conflict and genocide. The event was co-convened by Professor Paola Gaeta, Director of the Geneva Academy, and Professor Giulia Pinzauti, Leiden University.

Cities are expected to track sustainability progress with data that are often incomplete, outdated, or available only at national level. New research led by IIASA in collaboration with UN-Habitat finds that citizen science could address these gaps and support nearly 70% of global sustainability indicators, yet is currently used in only 4% of cases.