Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International 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.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International 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.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Myanmar

Myanmar’s Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic Conflict

The 2021 coup returned Myanmar to military rule and shattered hopes for democratic progress in a Southeast Asian country beset by decades of conflict and repressive regimes.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland January 31, 2022

Myanmar

Myanmar’s Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic Conflict

The 2021 coup returned Myanmar to military rule and shattered hopes for democratic progress in a Southeast Asian country beset by decades of conflict and repressive regimes.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland January 31, 2022

Health

How New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

This interactive examines how nationwide bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as proposed by the Biden administration on April 28, 2022, could help shrink the racial gap on U.S. lung cancer death rates.

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Health

How New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

John Kerry discusses his work as U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, the challenges the United States faces, and the Biden administration’s priorities as it continues to address climate chan…

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

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October 24, 2023

Europe and Eurasia

Ukraine Update: Pursuing Justice in Wartime with Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Oleksandra Matviichuk

Human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk discusses her vision for ensuring international justice and accountability for Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Matviichuk accepted the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize …

Nobel Peace Prize winner and head of Center for Civil Liberties Oleksandra Matviichuk speaks during a news conference.

Virtual Event by Oleksandra Matviichuk and Suzanne Nossel

May 24, 2012

Monetary Policy

Conducting Monetary Policy at the Zero Bound: Rules, Learning, and Risk Management

William C. Dudley, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, discusses monetary policy. This meeting was part of the C. Peter McColough series on Internationa…

Event

May 18, 2023

Economics

Navigating U.S. Economic Uncertainty

Brad W. Setser, CFR’s Whitney Shepardson senior fellow, leads a conversation on the likelihood of an economic recession, the current debt ceiling debate, and recent instability in the U.S. banking se…

Webinar by Brad W. Setser and Irina A. Faskianos State and Local Webinars

October 14, 2016

Brazil

Back-to-School Event: Deforestation of the Amazon

Experts discuss deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Event by Eve Bratman

July 15, 2020

The China-India Border Crisis

Please join our speakers for a discussion on the recent China-India border skirmish, heightened tensions between both countries, the economic and military ramifications of the crisis, and geopolitica…

Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Jayanta Party (BJP) hold placards to protest against China while paying tributes to the Indian army soldiers killed in a border clash with Chinese troops in Ladakh region, at India Gate, in New Delhi

Virtual Event by Alyssa Ayres, M. Taylor Fravel, Tanvi Madan, Randall G. Schriver, and Joseph K. Hurd III Asia Program