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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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August 9, 2012
Politics and Government
The World Next Week: Clinton Visits Turkey, OIC Meets in Mecca, Climate Changes, and Puerto Rico Votes
The World Next Week podcast is up. Robert McMahon gave up his seat this week so that Toni Johnson and I could discuss Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Turkey; the Organization of Islamic…
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…
October 29, 2008
Emerging Markets
At this rate the world’s financial architecture will have been remade before November 15th
Today the Federal Reserve indicated that it would swap US dollars for Brazilian real, Korean won, Mexican pesos and Singapore dollars -- effectively allowing a select group of emerging economies to b…
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…
