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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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February 10, 2023
Iraq
Women This Week: Iranian Protest Anthem Wins Grammy
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers February 4 to February 10.
June 22, 2023
Afghanistan
Our Biggest Errors in Afghanistan and What We Should Learn from Them
As a journalist, book author, and sometime adviser with frequent visits to Afghanistan between 2002 and 2015, I offer this distillation of lessons that we might learn from the United States’ longest …
April 23, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Will Kerry Continue the Jerusalem-Ramallah Shuttle If Hamas and Fatah Unite?
Secretary of State Kerry has put enormous effort into the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Most recently, there has been talk of a three-way deal wherein Israel releases 426 prisoners (some of them …
July 7, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Israel: BDS in the West, Integration in the Middle East?
Efforts continue in Europe and the United States to boycott Israel or at least Israeli goods "tainted" by their production in settlements in the West Bank, and to disinvest in Israeli companies or in…
April 26, 2012
Climate Change
The Clean Energy Ministerial: What I Learned about Solar PV and Global Governance
On April 25 and 26, I had the good fortune to participate in parts of the third annual Clean Energy Ministerial (known informally as the CEM), a forum launched by U.S. Energy Secretary Steve Chu in 2…
December 29, 2020
2020 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2020
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
