Listen to Richard Cizik, vice president for governmental affairs at the National Association of Evangelicals, and Michael Levi, director of the program on energy security and climate change at CFR, discuss climate change and religious environmental activism as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series.

Learn more about CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.

Listen to Fatih Birol, chief economist and head of the economic analysis division at the International Energy Agency, give his thoughts on climate change, the future of oil production, and the effects of the financial crisis on on global energy policy.

Listen to experts discuss the influence of Brazil and Venezuela on U.S. energy policy, as well as the effects of climate change on U.S.-Latin America relations.

This symposium was made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Listen to CFR senior fellows Michael A. Levi and Sebastian Mallaby discuss prospects for progress on climate change at the G8 summit.

Listen to experts discuss U.S. policy options with regard to China's environmental strategy.

Listen to experts discuss Chinese energy technology and the country's capability for addressing energy demands.

Listen to experts discuss China's energy challenges and the actions the country is taking on climate change.

Listen to economist Ian W.H. Parry, Richard L. Sandor of the Chicago Climate Exchange, and Princeton's Robert H. Socolow discuss the best economic approach to mitigating global greenhouse-gas emissions.

Listen to Joshua Busby, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, discuss the relationship between climate change and U.S. national security interests with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.

Listen to Senator John Kerry (D-MA) discuss climate change as a U.S. national security threat and the opportunity for the United States to pursue global leadership on the issue.

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.

Listen to Rick Boucher, U.S. representative from Virginia (D), and Ernest J. Moniz, professor of physics at MIT, discuss the current state of clean coal technology and specific climate change legislation under consdideration in Congress.

Listen to General Paul J. Kern, Admiral Thomas Joseph Lopez, and General Gordon R. Sullivan discuss their recent report for the CNA Corporation, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change.

Listen to British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett and Swiss Re’s Jacques Aigrain and Goldman Sachs’s Mark Tercek discuss the global political, economic, and financial risks associated with climate change.

Greenhouse gas trading is now a multibillion-dollar international business and is expected to continue to grow, despite uncertainty about a post-2012 international climate regime.

Debating global warming policy has moved to the top of agendas worldwide, but some skeptics still question whether action is necessary or possible.

The UN conference on climate change that begins December 7 in Copenhagen is supposed to produce new targets for emissions reductions, but experts say major countries are at odds on the ultimate goal of a new framework. This backgrounder looks at some of their positions.

President Barack Obama says he will seek vigorous climate-change policy. Efforts to curb greenhouse gases pose considerable economic pitfalls, as well as opportunities.

G8 members offer a mixed picture on meeting Kyoto Protocol targets. The United States continues to refuse ratification.

Despite foot-dragging on climate change, the United States has a strong history of environmental legislation, which could provide models for future greenhouse gas reduction efforts.