Council of Councils
Think Global Health
Online Store
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.
58 Results for:
Filters
May 14, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: California Budget Deficit Escalates
California is expected to record a $16 billion deficit this year (LATimes). Earlier this year, Governor Jerry Brown submitted a state budget with a deficit of $9.2 billion. Since that time, tax recei…
March 9, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: California Freeway is Test Case for Public-Private Infrastructure Development
A group of European investors is financing, designing, building, and maintaining a freeway leading to the Golden Gate Bridge (NYT). California will pay the developers a set amount upon completion and…
June 22, 2011
Oceans and Seas
Sea Change: Our Dying Oceans
A view over the mountains of Moskenesoya, Lofoten islands, Norway (Cody Duncan). --Svolvaer, Norway The Internationalist is spending this week in the gorgeous Lofoten Islands of Norway, just below …
June 1, 2017
U.S. Foreign Policy
Trump’s Catastrophic Climate Decision Imperils the Planet—and Hastens American Decline
In withdrawing the United States from the historic 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, President Donald J. Trump fulfilled one of his most prominent campaign pledges. But far from making America “great aga…
June 8, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: Fed Plans to Include Small Banks in Basel III
The Federal Reserve proposed applying “core” Basel III rules to all U.S. banks by 2019 (WSJ). Experts had expected small banks—less than $1 billion in assets—to be exempted from the new international…
