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

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

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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February 5, 2024

Health

Virtual Roundtable: A Conversation on Food and Nutrition Policy With Francesco Branca

FRIEDEN: Thank you so much for joining us. I'm delighted today that we have Dr. Francesco Branca with us for a conversation about nutritional issues very broadly. Francesco is Director of the Departm…

Virtual Event by Francesco Branca and Tom Frieden Global Health Program

August 22, 2023

Energy and Environment

Responding to Extreme Global Heat

Alice C. Hill, David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at CFR, will discuss the societal and environmental implications of extreme global heat and how the United States and o…

Webinar by Alice C. Hill, Joan Meiners, and Irina A. Faskianos Local Journalists Webinars

July 13, 2023

Latin America

Central America’s Turbulent Northern Triangle

The United States continues to seek strategies for responding to the growing number of migrants fleeing poverty, violence, and other challenges in the Central American region.

The casket of a migrant teenager who suffocated in a truck in Texas is buried in Guatemala.

Backgrounder by Diana Roy and Amelia Cheatham

June 5, 2023

Latin America

Latin America Update: Outlook on Democracy

Panelists discuss the status of democracy in Latin America, including the possibility of increased U.S. support, and the trends contributing to fluctuations in democracy across the region. This m…

Santiago Pena waves flag at campaign rally

Virtual Event by Will Freeman, Steven Levitsky, Mary E. Sheridan, and Jennifer L. McCoy

May 31, 2023

Brazil

South America’s Minimum Consensus on Democracy is Gone

Forget regional integration. Basic diplomacy will remain an uphill battle until the region’s leaders return to a shared definition of democracy.

Blog Post by Will Freeman Latin America’s Moment

April 11, 2023

NAFTA

Regionalization and U.S. Economic Competitiveness

Shannon K. O’Neil, vice president, deputy director of studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America studies at CFR, discusses the role of strategic regional partnerships i…

A staff member works on an assembly line manufacturing Geely's GX6 cars, at the Geely's plant in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China April 13, 2023.

Webinar by Shannon K. O'Neil Local Journalists Webinars