Connecting research to the people who make policy.

How foresight and anticipatory governance prepare institutions for emerging risks.

The Pressure Series — Part 3 of a five-part series.

Kyoto debates science cooperation. Kyiv shows what is at stake.

The attack has raised difficult questions about protecting scientific institutions and sustaining international cooperation during war.

The Pressure Series — Part 2 of a five-part series.

Weather forecasts depend on an invisible resource. Countries have to share it.

The Pressure Series — Part 1 of a five-part series.

At the U.N.’s biggest diplomatic week, science and technology are on the agenda.

The world's nuclear agency confronts the widening demands on its mandate.

Thinking about the future without pretending to predict it

The world begins taking stock of its biodiversity targets.

How decision science helps people and institutions navigate uncertainty and complexity.

Autonomous weapons talks reach a decision point.

The 2026 A.U.-E.U.-Med Innovation Fair invites startups and research projects to pitch food and agriculture technologies, testing if research can reach markets.

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Participation matters but governance systems change with new ideas. Part 1 of a five-part series on participation in global science and technology governance.

Brando Okolo argues scientific partnerships should build industrial capacity, entrepreneurship and more African influence in a changing global research system.

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How things move from joining international systems to shaping them. Part 4 of a five-part series on participation in global science and technology governance.

Land takes center stage as governments confront degradation, drought and a changing climate.

International institutions create different kinds of participants. Part 3 of a five-part series on participation in global science and technology governance.

How governments, international organizations, companies, and scientific institutions are building the rules for artificial intelligence.

Why some participants arrive with a head start. Part 2 of a five-part series on participation in global science and technology governance.

Europe's AI Act enters a new phase as biodiversity, diplomacy and space shape the week ahead.

How global negotiations narrow long before the final vote. Part 1 of a five-part series on participation in global science and technology governance.

From oceans to orbit, scientific governance faces new stress tests.

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Three years on, the AU–EU Innovation Agenda turns from ambition to delivery.

Participants in the Raiffa Academy return to universities, governments and international organizations with new tools, new collaborators and shared approaches.

Twenty-nine countries joined the Shanghai-based organization as Beijing offered aid to developing nations.

Twenty-nine countries joined the Shanghai-based organization as Beijing offered aid to developing nations.

At the Howard Raiffa Lecture, Avril Haines argued that behavioral science and decision analysis can help governments make more ethical decisions under pressure.

At the Raiffa Academy, participants used decision-analysis tools to navigate scientific uncertainty, competing interests and negotiation under pressure.

A new UNESCO report argues scientific discovery is no longer the main constraint on sustainable development. The challenge is turning evidence into decisions.

The Raiffa Academy opened with a premise that many global challenges suffer from failures in decision-making, negotiation and implementation, not lack of data.

A coalition of over 200 leaders argues that governments must prepare for economic disruptions that could arrive faster than previous industrial revolutions.

IIASA launches the Howard Raiffa Academy to explore how decision science can strengthen diplomacy and public policy.

The Sense About Science chief says evidence must be open to scrutiny and democratic societies depend on institutions that help citizens determine what is true.

An ITU-led effort seeks to strengthen one of the world's least visible but most important infrastructure: submarine cables that carry over 99% of data traffic.

The ICRC launches a new phase of a project to extend protections to cyberspace as hospitals, groups and critical services become vulnerable to online attacks.

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Discussions in Geneva revealed concern over fragmented regulation, unequal access to computing power and the need for safeguards that can evolve alongside AI.

The global conversation about artificial intelligence moves from scientific assessment to political negotiation this week in Geneva.

Preliminary report argues that countries may gain access to AI while losing influence over the standards, infrastructure and governance systems that shape it.

Mapping the institutions, networks, and mechanisms that connect expertise to decision-making.

Switzerland’s glaciers are reaching a threshold that extends beyond ice loss.

Incoming IPU Secretary General Anda Filip argues lawmakers must play a larger international role as artificial intelligence reshapes democratic institutions.

The Caribbean nation’s path toward IIASA membership reflects a broader effort by climate-vulnerable countries to influence science frameworks that inform them.

As governments begin positioning, scientists and leaders make a new argument: the secretary-general's job is increasingly shaped by science and technology.