Climate Change

Op-Ed

Environment Gridlock

Author: David G. Victor
Newsweek

In this Newsweek article, David Victor warns that delivering greenery in the American political system will be difficult. On climate issues, America is less a nation than 50 different states moving at different speeds.

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Primary Sources

Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Relationship Between Climate Change and Human Rights

The Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Relationship Between Climate Change and Human Rights "discusses how observed and projected impacts of climate change have implications for the enjoyment of human rights and for the obligations of States under international human rights law." It is dated January 15, 2009.

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Must Read

Guardian: A Letter to Obama

Authors: James Hansen and Anniek Hansen

The Guardian prints a letter from Dr. James and Anniek Hansen, who make a personal appeal to President Obama, asking him to take aggressive but carefully targeted steps to combat global climate change.

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Academic Module

Academic Module: Climate Change and National Security

Author: Joshua W. Busby

This module features teaching notes for Climate Change and National Security: An Agenda for Action by author Joshua Busby, along with other resources to supplement the text. This Council Special Report proposes a portfolio of feasible and affordable policy options to reduce the vulnerability of the United States and other countries to the predictable effects of climate change.

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Audio

Climate Change and Religious Environmental Activism (Audio)

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.

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Video

World Energy Outlook

Speaker: Fatih Birol
Presider: Edward L. Morse

Watch 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.

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Audio

World Energy Outlook (Audio)

Speaker: Fatih Birol
Presider: Edward L. Morse

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.

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