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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May 6, 2021

Latin America

Virtual Roundtable: Equality in Constitutional Democracies: The ERA, CEDAW, and the Chilean Plebiscite

BETTINGER-LOPEZ: Thank you very much. Welcome everyone to our roundtable, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations Women and Foreign Policy program, as well as the Think Global Health program, w…

Supporters of the "I Approve" option react after hearing the results of the referendum on a new Chilean constitution

Webinar by Lisa Baldez, Julie Suk, and Caroline Bettinger-Lopez Women and Foreign Policy Program

May 1, 2014

Syria

What to Do About Syria

More than three years after the start of the Syrian civil war, debates continue about what role, if any, the United States should play in the conflict. Ryan C. Crocker of Texas A&M, Freedom House's C…

Event by Paul R. Pillar, Charles W. Dunne, Ryan C. Crocker, and Richard Haass What to Do About...

October 22, 2021

Afghanistan

Afghanistan in Hindsight: Lessons From Two Decades of War

Our panelists discuss the history of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, critical policy decisions made during four U.S. administrations, and what lessons can be learned from the two-decade war.

U.S. Army Soldiers on security at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan.

Virtual Event by Ryan C. Crocker, Carter Malkasian, Kori Schake, and Eliot A. Cohen

May 1, 2014

Syria

What To Do About Syria

More than three years after the start of the Syrian civil war, debates continue about what role, if any, the United States should play in the conflict. Ryan Crocker of Texas A&M, Freedom House's Char…

Event

April 27, 2021

Defense and Security

Lessons From History Series: Screening and Discussion of "Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden"

Ten years after the Abbottabad raid that found Osama bin Laden, speakers discuss the decade-long search to find the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The Lessons From History Series uses histo…

U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) and Vice President Joe Biden (L), along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room

Virtual Event by Clifford Chanin, Thomas E. Donilon, Michèle A. Flournoy, and Missy Ryan