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September 24, 2019

United Nations General Assembly
UN Climate Action Summit: Five Things Governments Should be Doing

As the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit concludes, world leaders need some outside the box thinking about steps to strengthen their national commitments to shrink their greenhouse gas emissions ahead of…

A mangrove plant grows on a shore in Cancun June 21, 2010. In the 40 years since Cancun was founded, countless acres of mangrove forests up and down Mexico's Caribbean Coast have been lost - and the destruction continues. Now many scientists say that mangrove forests can help slow climate change, and are desperate to save them. Picture taken June 21, 2010.
Blog Post by Amy M. Jaffe Energy Realpolitik

October 11, 2017

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Trump, the World Bank, and the IMF: Explaining the Dog that Didn’t Bark (Yet)

A big surprise of Donald Trump’s “America First” presidency has been the moderate tone he has adopted toward the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), which hold their annual meetings in …

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, U.S. President Donald J. Trump, Ivanka Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 8, 2017.
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

May 31, 2012

Global
The State of the World's Refugees: From Indifference to Solidarity

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres discusses the current state of the world's refugees. Related readings: Protocol to the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

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Event by António Guterres and George Rupp Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture

February 21, 2023

Colombia
Colombia Tries a Transformative Left Turn

Current History, Volume 122, Issue 841: 69-74

Colombia's President and Vice President
Article by Will Freeman Latin America Studies Program

May 31, 2012

Global
The State of the World’s Refugees: From Indifference to Solidarity

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres discusses the current state of the world's refugees. This meeting is part of the Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture series, which was established…

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