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

Economics

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Lael Brainard of the Federal Reserve discusses the challenges facing U.S. economic recovery. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world's foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address members on current topics in international economics and U.S. monetary policy. This meeting series is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.

Virtual Event with Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. March 2, 2021 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

Economics

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Virtual Event with Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. March 2, 2021 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

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June 20, 2024

United States

Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: Turning Point—The Bomb and The Cold War

The Netflix series Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War is an exploration of the decades-long conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union framed by current events that reveal the Cold…

A cinematographer films an atomic mushroom cloud in a project named "Operation Plumbbob" Colorado.

Event by Brian Knappenberger, Lynn Rusten, Andy Weber, and Timothy Naftali Paul C. Warnke Lecture

July 26, 2005

China

Andy Xie gives no quarter

Xie to the market (and to the US): Take your 2% and stop telling China to revalue! Here is the difference between Xie and me, put simply. Xie thinks the US is trying to get China to "artificially"…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

September 2, 2011

Climate Change

Andy Revkin and I Talk About Keystone XL

Andy Revkin of the Times and I had a short chat about Keystone XL this morning. We discuss economics, climate, and politics. Here’s the video: http://youtu.be/8eB3FnIplHU

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

March 8, 2005

Financial Markets

I hope Andy Xie is wrong about this

Xie argues that Chinese prices won’t converge to US levels; rather US prices are likely to need to fall to Chinese levels.When a small economy like South Korea begins to develop, it is quite reasonab…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

September 17, 2024

United States

John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture With Timothy Snyder

Historian Timothy Snyder explores the concept of freedom, including what it is, how it has been misunderstood, and why it is worth fighting for both in the United States and globally. The John B. …

Timothy Snyder is pictured during an inaugural class at the ULB Universite Libre de Bruxelles, in Brussels, Belgium.

Virtual Event by Timothy Snyder, Gillian Tett, and Michael Froman John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture

August 2, 2024

Election 2024

Election 2024: Who Will Kamala Harris Select as Her Running Mate?

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Who Kamala Harris chooses as her running mate could tip the outcome of the presidential race.

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge