Watch Stephen Harper, prime minister of Canada, discuss priorities for Canadian foreign policy, including climate change, the Americas and NAFTA, security in Afghanistan, and arctic sovereignty.

Listen to Stephen Harper, prime minister of Canada, discuss priorities for Canadian foreign policy, including climate change, the Americas and NAFTA, security in Afghanistan, and arctic sovereignty.

The odds are high that humans will warm Earth’s climate to worrisome levels during the coming century. Policy makers in the United States, which historically has produced more CO₂ emissions than any other nation while doing relatively little to tame the flow, can in particular learn much about creating viable carbon-cutting markets by studying Europe’s recent experience. In this Scientific American article, David Victor and Danny Cullenward offer several concrete suggestions on how the U.S. should go about constructing an effective national climate policy.

Hailed for saving the ozone layer, the 1987 Montreal Protocol is attracting fresh attention as a weapon against climate change.

Dr. Moniz and Representative Boucher discuss climate change legislation and clean coal technologies.

In this policy research working paper, the World Bank aims to examine the resulting impact of climate change on hydropower projects. Three projects are considered: India, Sri Lanka, and
Vietnam.

Two years after Hurricane Katrina, U.S. cities still struggle to safeguard themselves against such natural disasters.

Elizabeth Martin Perera, a climate policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Alex Farrell, director of UC Berkley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center, discuss the merits and challenges of coal-to-liquids as an alternative fuel.

William A. Pizer, senior fellow at Resources for the Future, and Kenneth P. Green, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, debate how the United States should regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

As the G8 Summit closes, leaders can cite some progress on contentious issues like climate change and missile defense. But others wonder if anything of substance will result. 

Climate change is a major global issue of common concern to the international
community. It is an issue involving both environment and development. This publication outlines the impacts, the challenges and the plan of action for China's struggle against climate change.

Sustainable energy and technology can curb climate change and meet projected growth in demand for energy but only if key decisions are made within the next five years, according to a new WWF report. Climate Solutions: WWF's vision for 2050 concludes that sustainable technologies can meet global projected energy demand while avoiding the most dangerous impacts of climate change. But it warns that the governmental policies needed to propel this transition are not now in place, or even in prospect in most cases.  

This publication reviews experiences with existing (and past) cap-and-trade programs and determines what lessons these experiences provide for effective design of a possible U.S. GHG cap-and-trade program.

CFR President Richard N. Haass testifies before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming about the implications of oil dependence and climate change.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) discusses the compabilitity of environmentalism and economic growth.