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Visualizing 2023: Trends to WatchUsing charts, CFR experts track developments that could shape the year ahead.
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How Will Global Health Survive Climate Change?Climate change has the potential to become the most significant threat to public health in the coming decades. Dr. Colin Carlson argues that new initiatives, including greater adaptation financing and robust public healthcare systems, are necessary to avoid disaster.
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What the 2022 Midterm Elections Mean for U.S. Climate PolicyProgress on President Biden’s climate agenda will slow with a split Congress. But with federal efforts dulled, state-level action could supply added momentum.
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COP27 Didn’t Make Enough Progress to Prevent Climate CatastropheThe UN climate summit delivered on a loss and damage fund, but it fell short on goals to reduce emissions and avoid the worst consequences of climate change.
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Diplomacy Debrief: COP27, ASEAN, and G20 SummitsPresident Biden just completed an important diplomacy tour with stops at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Ca…
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UN Climate TalksSince 1992, when the United Nations recognized climate change as a serious issue, negotiations among countries have produced notable accords, such as the Paris Agreement. But leaders have struggled to maintain momentum and failed to slow global temperature rise.
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Women Underrepresented at COP27 SummitWelcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers November 12 to November 18.
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Will Biden’s Trade Policy Shift After the Midterms?It probably won’t, and that would be a mistake.
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Iran’s Human Rights Abuses, COP27 Concludes, World Cup Kicks Off, and MoreThe UN Human Rights Council meets for a special session on the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters; the COP27 conference draws to a close amid calls from developing countries to increase funding for climate damages; and the 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Doha, Qatar, even as controversy lingers.
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The Great Climate Justice BlackmailWorld leaders should rebuff Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s attempt at moral intimidation.
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What Climate Change Means for the Sahel, With Beza TesfayeIn this special series of The President’s Inbox on climate change, Beza Tesfaye, director of Research and Learning for Migration and Climate Change at Mercy Corps and senior associate for the Project on Fragility and Mobility at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the impact of climate change in the Sahel region. This series is made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Climate Change and Conflict in the Sahel
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The African countries of the Sahel stand to be among the most affected by climate change. To help mitigate its effects, Beza Tesfaye argues that the United States should partner with civil society groups and expand climate adaptation and financing efforts. -
Perilous Pathogens: How Climate Change Is Increasing the Threat of DiseasesClimate change is creating many pathways for zoonotic diseases to reach people. Four cases show how the climate crisis is altering disease threats and how the world can respond.
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Global Climate Agreements: Successes and FailuresInternational efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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COP27, U.S. Midterms, ASEAN Summit, and MoreEgypt hosts the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt; Americans vote in closely watched midterm elections; and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, kicks off a month of summitry in Asia.
