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.

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.

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…

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

by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

Could Trump’s Tariffs Replace Income Tax for the Bottom 90%?

President Trump has many times suggested that tariff revenue could replace the federal income tax. This claim is absurdly off-base, since it is mathematically impossible for tariffs, even at…

by Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding April 24, 2025 Geo-Graphics

Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

Could Trump’s Tariffs Replace Income Tax for the Bottom 90%?

President Trump has many times suggested that tariff revenue could replace the federal income tax. This claim is absurdly off-base, since it is mathematically impossible for tariffs, even at…

by Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding April 24, 2025 Geo-Graphics

World Trade Organization (WTO)

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala discusses the future of global trade and the WTO's role in the rules-based international system. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world’s foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address members on current topics in international economics. This meeting series is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies. This meeting is presented by RealEcon: Reimagining American Economic Leadership, a CFR initiative of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies. If you wish to attend virtually, log-in information and instructions on how to participate during the question and answer portion will be provided the evening before the event to those who register. Please note the audio, video, and transcript of this hybrid meeting will be posted on the CFR website.

Virtual Event with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Michael Froman April 23, 2025 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

World Trade Organization (WTO)

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Virtual Event with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Michael Froman April 23, 2025 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

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April 27, 2025

Canada

Canada’s 2025 Elections: Why the U.S. Is on the Ballot

Canadians are heading to the polls at the most fraught moment in U.S.-Canada relations in eighty years.

In Brief by Abi McGowan

April 29, 2025

Canada

What Mark Carney’s Election Win Means for Trade and U.S.-Canada Relations

Mark Carney’s electoral victory represents a comeback for the governing Liberal Party in what was seen as a vote on trade and the future of Canada’s relationship with the United States.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney waves to supporters at the Liberal Party election night headquarters in Ottawa.

Expert Brief by Edward Alden and Inu Manak Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

April 29, 2025

Japan

The ‘Trump Effect’ on Elections Is Just Beginning, Including in Japan

The U.S. president’s rhetoric and tariffs fuel political shifts in key global polls.

Lee Jae-myung celebrates after winning the final race to choose their candidate for upcoming presidential election during a national convention of South Korea's Democratic Party in Goyang, South Korea.

Article by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Program

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

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

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…

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