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 December 5, 2023 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 December 5, 2023 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

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

John Kerry discusses his work as U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, the challenges the United States faces, and the Biden administration’s priorities as it continues to address climate chan…

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

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May 24, 2023

United States

Kenneth A. Moskow Memorial Lecture: A Conversation With Liz Sherwood-Randall

White House Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall discusses how the Biden Administration prepares for and responds to a broad range of threats to the Homeland. The Kenneth A. Moskow Memor…

Virtual Event by Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall and Richard Haass Kenneth A. Moskow Memorial Lecture

August 6, 2020

Monetary Policy

Corporate Virtual Roundtable: Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Future of Finance

Representations of virtual currency Bitcoin and U.S. dollar banknotes lay side-by-side

Event by Kenneth S. Rogoff, Nathan Sheets, Saket Sinha, and Seema Mody

October 13, 2020

Economics

World Economic Update

The World Economic Update highlights the quarter’s most important and emerging trends. Discussions cover changes in the global marketplace with special emphasis on current economic events and their i…

Virtual Event by Rebecca Patterson, Adam Posen, Kenneth S. Rogoff, and Sebastian Mallaby World Economic Update

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…

Statue of a filmmaker on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong

Virtual Event by Ian Johnson, Ian Johnson, Shannon K. O'Neil, and Shannon K. O'Neil CFR Fellows' Book Launch

May 7, 2020

The IMF and COVID-19—How to Relieve Emerging Economies

Please join our panelists for a conversation on the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its lending capacity, and the tools it can leverage to provide relief for emerging markets during the COVID-19 p…

Virtual Event by Gita Gopinath, Kenneth S. Rogoff, Adam Tooze, and Gillian Tett

July 8, 2020

Food Security During COVID-19: A Conversation With David Beasley

Please join David Beasley for a discussion about the global food crisis and how the UN World Food Program is working to ensure food security amid the pandemic's disruption of supply chains.

David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, speaks at the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland.

Virtual Event by David M. Beasley and Thomas J. Vilsack