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 New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

This interactive examines how nationwide bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as proposed by the Biden administration on April 28, 2022, could help shrink the racial gap on U.S. lung cancer death rates.

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

Health

How New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

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

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 change.

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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October 15, 2012

Defense and Security

The Topics for Next Week’s Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy Are Debatable

Bob Schieffer, the moderator of the third and final presidential debate of 2012, informed the Obama and Romney campaigns last week that he had selected debate topics. The debate, which is scheduled f…

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama debate in Denver on October 3, 2012. (Kevin Lamarque/ courtesy Reuters)

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

July 31, 2015

Cyber Week in Review: July 31, 2015

Here is a quick round-up of this week’s technology headlines and related stories you may have missed: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) issued a directive mandating that all cell pho…

Blog Post by Adam Segal Net Politics

July 25, 2011

Defense and Security

Cyber Attacks and Pentagon Responses

2Lt William Liggett works at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado July 20, 2010. U.S. national security planners…

Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

April 24, 2014

Human Rights

New Report on Strategies to Stop Child Marriage

This post is from Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) fellow, and Lynn ElHarake, research associate for the CFR Women and Foreign Policy Program. It has been edited from an origi…

Child bride Krishna, 12, plays on an improvised swing outside her house in a village near Baran, India, July 2011 (Courtesy Reuters/Danish Siddiqui).

Blog Post by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Development Channel

February 8, 2012

China

Is China a Paper Tiger in Cyberspace?

Two recent studies of national cyber power have placed China near the bottom of the table. China is number 13 on the EUI-Booz Allen Hamilton Cyber Power Index, behind Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil bu…

Blog Post by Adam Segal Asia Unbound