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What’s the true cost of cheap clothes? Fast fashion has become a multibillion-dollar industry in recent decades, reshaping the world’s shopping habits. But the industry’s low prices disguise a staggering environmental cost.
Apr 19, 2020
What’s the true cost of cheap clothes? Fast fashion has become a multibillion-dollar industry in recent decades, reshaping the world’s shopping habits. But the industry’s low prices disguise a staggering environmental cost.
Apr 19, 2020
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Foreign Affairs May/June 2020 Issue Launch Webinar: China's Coming UpheavalIn this virtual panel discussion, Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose and magazine contributors Minxin Pei and Elizabeth Economy discuss the May/June 2020 issue. The conversation is focused on China—great-power competition, the coronavirus, and the potential weaknesses of Xi Jinping. Read the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, "The Fire Next Time," including the article "China’s Coming Upheaval" by Minxin Pei.
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Another Victim of COVID-19: Sustainable DevelopmentThe coronavirus pandemic is a major setback for efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Foreign Affairs Live: Climate ChangeDaniel Kurtz-Phelan discusses the May/June 2020 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine with contributors David G. Victor and Rebecca Henderson. The authors focus on topics raised in their articles, including the roles technology and the private sector can play in combating climate change.
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The Politics of Food in the Time of COVID-19In many African states, food insecurity is a serious problem getting worse by the day. This week, international experts sounded the alarm about acute food shortages affecting some 135 million people,…
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Building Climate ResilienceAlice C. Hill, senior fellow for climate change policy at CFR, discusses how communities can reduce, absorb, and recover from climate change impacts and recommend policies to build greater climate re…
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Who Is Killing Latin America’s Environmentalists?A surge in killings of environmentalists is part of a disturbing trend of increasing threats to social leaders across Latin America.
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Earth Day’s New Urgency in the Era of COVID-19COVID-19 underscores the extent to which human health depends on environmental health.
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Wearing the World OutWhat’s the true cost of cheap clothes? Fast fashion has become a multibillion-dollar industry in recent decades, reshaping the world’s shopping habits. But the industry’s low prices disguise a staggering environmental cost.
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Ecological DisastersIndustrial disasters around the world involving multinational corporations, such as the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have caused irreparable health, environmental, and economic damages. Such tragedies have also led to lengthy legal challenges and prompted new global regulations.
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Trump Halts WHO Funding, Earth Day’s Fiftieth Anniversary, and MoreU.S. President Donald J. Trump announces a funding freeze and review of the World Health Organization amid the coronavirus pandemic, Earth Day is celebrated across the globe, and Cuba marks the fortieth anniversary of the Mariel boatlift.
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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, including the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement. But leaders have struggled to maintain momentum and failed to slow global temperature rise.
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What the Coronavirus Pandemic Teaches Us About Fighting Climate ChangeThe coronavirus pandemic has reduced global carbon emissions, but that progress won’t last unless governments act to reduce emissions permanently and prepare for future disasters.
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Can the Lessons of the Coronavirus Pandemic Be Applied to Climate Change?Contrasting COVID-19 with climate change underscores how urgency often trumps importance in motivating political action.
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Reducing Disaster Costs by Building BetterAlthough local communities decide where and how development occurs, the federal government pays for those decisions when disaster strikes. In the face of climate change, the federal government should insist on local risk reduction measures.
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Building a Resilient TomorrowBuilding a Resilient Tomorrow draws on international and national examples, some revealed for the first time, to provide an interdisciplinary narrative covering a range of climate resilience solutions.