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 and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 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 and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 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

Space

Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action

As outer space becomes more congested with debris and international tensions escalate, the threat to U.S. national security grows. The United States must act now to reassert its leadership and create pathways for management in this critical strategic domain.

Task Force Report by Nina M. Armagno, Jane Harman, Esther Brimmer and Anya Schmemann February 11, 2025

Space

Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action

Task Force Report by Nina M. Armagno, Jane Harman, Esther Brimmer and Anya Schmemann February 11, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future? A Conversation With Reid Hoffman

Tech leader Reid Hoffman shares his insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future and its transformative potential to improve lives and create positive change. The Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology addresses issues at the intersection of science, technology, and foreign policy. It has been endowed in perpetuity through a gift from CFR members Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener.

Virtual Event with Reid Hoffman and Deven J. Parekh January 30, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future? A Conversation With Reid Hoffman

Virtual Event with Reid Hoffman and Deven J. Parekh January 30, 2025

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April 28, 2023

Canada

A Conversation with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discusses President Biden's recent visit to Ottawa, prospects for the future of the U.S.-Canada relationship, economic cooperation between the two countries, an…

Virtual Event by Justin Trudeau and Richard Haass

April 2, 2021

Economics

Justin Muzinich Joins CFR as Distinguished Fellow

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) welcomes Justin Muzinich, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, to its David Rockefeller Studies Program as a distinguished fellow. At CFR…

News Releases

February 7, 2025

Trade

The Costs of Tariffs

CFR President and former U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman analyzes the potential economic consequences and broader impacts on global trade norms of President Donald Trump’s imposition of tari…

A drone view of trailers parked at Stellantis’s Chrysler Windsor Assembly facility in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, February 4, 2025. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters)

Article by Michael Froman

February 2, 2025

Trade

Trump’s Risky New Era of Broken Trade Norms

The tariffs that President Donald Trump has announced against three of the United States’ biggest trading partners—Canada, China, and Mexico—look poised to shatter the era of a rules-based order with…

A customer holds a bottle as a sign that reads “Buy Canadian Instead” is displayed after the top five U.S. liquor brands were removed from sale at B.C. Liquor Stores, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Expert Brief by Edward Alden

January 21, 2025

Kenya

Accountability Gone Missing in Kenya

Amid a spate of abductions and disappearances in Kenya, President Ruto’s government feigns ignorance.

A Kenyan activist holds a placard as protesters demonstrate against a wave of unexplained abductions of government critics, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on December 30, 2024.

Post by Michelle Gavin Africa in Transition

September 25, 2018

Canada

A Conversation With Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland, and Jim Carr

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, and International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr discuss Canada’s global outlook, including the government’s persp…

Event by Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland, Jim Carr, and Richard Haass Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture

January 9, 2025

United States

Hegseth Faces Senate Hearing, SCOTUS Hears TikTok Case, Canada Weighs Future Leadership, and More

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee; the Supreme Court hears arguments over the Joe Biden administrat…

A man looks down at his tablet while downloading TikTok onto his device.

Podcast by Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins The World Next Week