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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.
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April 22, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: The Globe Warms and the People Chill
A male polar bear waits for an ice sheet to form to allow migration in an area about 300km north of Churchill, Canada on November 17, 2009. (Iain D. Williams/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Tod…
March 29, 2013
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Drone Secrets, Noise, and Civil Liberties
Jameel Jaffer, “The Drone Secrets We Should See,” Politico, March 29, 2013. The administration owes the public a fuller account of the program. It should begin by releasing the legal memos that supp…
April 13, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Night Raids, and the Appeal and Cost of Nuclear Weapons
“Piracy and Private Security,” The Economist, April 14, 2012. Private security teams patrol the decks of around 40% of large vessels in the “high-risk area” that stretches from the Persian Gulf…
June 11, 2013
Labor and Employment
Policy Initiative Spotlight: A One-Stop Welfare Shop
The United Kingdom is implementing a major welfare reform, replacing a constellation of social support programs with a single monthly payment, the universal credit. The amount a recipient receives wi…
March 29, 2021
Tibet
China’s Policies in Its Far West: The Claim of Tibet-Xinjiang Equivalence
Robert Barnett is a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; an Affiliate Researcher at King’s College, London; and former Director of Mode…
