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

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities in health. Tobacco use—the leading cause of p…

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

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on 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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September 9, 2021

State and Local Governments (U.S.)

Vaccines and Variants with Dr. Leana Wen

Leana Wen, emergency health physician and former health commissioner for the city of Baltimore, Maryland, discusses how state and local governments can prepare for and respond to COVID-19 variants an…

Webinar by Leana S. Wen and Irina A. Faskianos State and Local Webinars

September 29, 2020

State and Local Governments (U.S.)

Economic Recovery From the Coronavirus Pandemic

Sebastian Mallaby, senior fellow for international economics at CFR, and Brian Sigritz, director of state fiscal studies for the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO), discuss the ec…

A man wears a face mask as he leaves the Jersey City State Office Building, after it was closed following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Webinar by Sebastian Mallaby, Brian Sigritz, and Irina A. Faskianos State and Local Webinars

April 6, 2011

Global

Women and Technology: The Opportunities of Mobile Banking

This meeting is part of the ExxonMobil Women and Development Roundtable Series, organized by CFR's Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative. ISOBEL COLEMAN: Good afternoon, everyone. Than…

Event by Mary Ellen Iskenderian, Tamara Cook, and Isobel Coleman

May 10, 2011

Development

Women and Development: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter

ISOBEL COLEMAN: Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon. I'm Isobel Coleman. I'm a senior fellow here at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the council's Civil Society, Markets, …

Event by Anne-Marie Slaughter and Isobel Coleman

May 7, 2020

The IMF and COVID-19—How to Relieve Emerging Economies

Please join our panelists for a conversation on the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its lending capacity, and the tools it can leverage to provide relief for emerging markets during the COVID-19 p…

Virtual Event by Gita Gopinath, Kenneth S. Rogoff, Adam Tooze, and Gillian Tett