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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 9, 2018
Energy and Climate Policy
Green Giants? Sectoral Obstacles and Opportunities to Reduce Carbon Emissions in China and India
This guest post is co-authored by Joshua Busby, associate professor of public affairs at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the LBJ School at the University of Texas a…
July 5, 2012
International Organizations
Assessing Rio: Silver Linings to Cloudy Forecast
Ultimately, the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, seemed to fly by with a flurry of coverage but no clear conclusions. Many observers dismissed the final communiqué as “283 pa…
June 22, 2020
India
COVID-19 and Other Inflection Points: Fifth Annual Review of Solar Scale-Up in India
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, India was moving to the forefront of the global energy transition, with plans to reach 175-gigawatt (GW) of renewable energy by 2022. Prime Minister Modi’s decisive el…
May 8, 2014
Education
How to Fill the Skills Gap: Bring Back Apprenticeships
This is a guest post by Robert Maxim, research associate, competitiveness and foreign policy, for the Council on Foreign Relations studies program. Manufacturing is growing in the United States, but…
December 10, 2015
Politics and Government
Undemocratic Democracies in Rwanda and Central Africa
This is a guest post by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, a journalist and adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School. Just this past month, Rwandan President Paul Kagame followed neighboring rulers in…
