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Youth environmental activists take part in Fridays For Future walk for climate justice in Kisumu, western Kenya. Photo by BRIAN ONGORO/AFP via Getty Images.

African leaders and negotiators came to COP26 with well-coordinated joint policy positions and high ambition. But the result fell short of what they need.

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We have asked Chatham House experts and cover-story contributors to The World Today to highlight the issues that will dominate the international agenda for the year ahead

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (R) with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky after their bilateral meeting at the European Union headquarters in Brussels on December 16, 2021. Photo by JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images.

Pressing Kyiv to settle at gunpoint is unlikely to deliver Moscow its desired outcome but will drag both parties into a long conflict at the heart of Europe.

Yurub Abdi Jama stands at the entrance of her neighbour's house in a settlement of internally displaced people in the outskirts of Hargeisa on 16 September 2021. In recent years, natural disasters have been the main driver of displacement in Somalia. Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images.

Somalia is emblematic of the wider situation around the world whereby climate change is having cascading impacts that reach far beyond borders.

The skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center as the sun rises in New York City as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images.

Chatham House and foreign policy experts review the first year of the Joe Biden presidency and examine America’s future place in the world.

The international arrivals area at Terminal 5 in Heathrow Airport, London, UK as travel restrictions were imposed following the discovery of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images.

Omicron highlights why a global regime is needed to support countries reporting variants, and that a shared sense of well-being has to come to the fore.

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Piccadilly Circus has undergone significant change in the past 100 years. How has this affected the lives and livelihoods of local people?

Undercurrents podcast on COVID-19 and NATO

Why is a global response to the pandemic proving so difficult to deliver? And how did Jens Stoltenberg respond to President Trump’s challenge?

Podcast on transatlantic cooperation on tech governance

What are the opportunities for progress on international regulation of the digital economy?

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Chatham House experts David Heymann and Emma Ross look at the year ahead for the COVID-19 pandemic.

The event explores the status of the relationship between Africa and the European Union and the key opportunities for progress towards stronger collaboration.

Experts will assess the health of constitutional democracy of the US 1 year after President Biden’s election

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This event explores strategies to reform and decolonize the global health system.

Presenting a new conceptual learning tool to help facilitate the inclusion of nature-based solutions within comprehensive portfolio decarbonization strategies.

This event launches a Chatham House paper which details the laundering of monies and reputations by elites from Eurasia’s kleptocratic states, and the material and reputational damage rendered to the UK’s sovereignty and democracy.

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