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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 10, 2024
Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Thirty years ago, Rwanda’s government began a campaign to eradicate the country’s largest minority group. This Why It Matters episode discusses how in just one hundred days, 800,000 people in Rwanda were killed, while the rest of the world sat on the sidelines.
April 3, 2024
Rwanda
Thirty Years After Rwanda’s Genocide: Where the Country Stands Today
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the country has made tremendous strides toward peace and development. But critics say these have come at the cost of political freedoms.
March 21, 2024
United States
Women Voters’ Pivotal Role in Electing the Next U.S. President
The 2024 U.S. presidential election could be the first election clearly decided by women, in a landmark assertion of power by the majority.
February 28, 2024
Renewable Energy
Academic Webinar: Energy Security
Meghan L. O’Sullivan, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Jeane Kirkpatrick professor of the practice of international affairs at Harvard University, leads the…
January 23, 2024
United States
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century by Benn Steil
Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As FDR’s third-term vice president, and a hero to many progressives, he lost his place o…
October 19, 2023
Nigeria
In Search of Manhood
The genital disappearance panic sweeping across Nigeria evokes nagging anxiety over masculinity and male power.
October 12, 2023
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
CFR Virtual Public Forum: Update on the Israel-Hamas War
FROMAN: Good afternoon. Welcome to today’s Public Forum hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations. My name is Mike Froman. I am president of the Council, and I’ll be presiding over today’s discussio…
September 28, 2023
China
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: Sparks—China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future by Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson discusses his new book, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, which describes how some of China’s best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overco…
September 27, 2023
Climate Change
Could Climate Change Break Home Insurance?
For decades, U.S. homeowners have counted on property insurance to protect them from catastrophic loss if their homes are destroyed—and the U.S. economy has rested on the functionality of that model…
September 22, 2023
Spain
A Conversation With Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares of Spain
Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation José Manuel Albares discusses Spain’s role in the EU, the challenge of climate change, and the geopolitics of the region.
