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

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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February 4, 2022

COVID-19

The World Still Hasn’t Agreed on a Pandemic Playbook

For two years, the world has been battling COVID-19 with masks, vaccines, and lockdowns. There have been impressive results and serious missteps, but countries have failed to channel their shared exp…

A health-care worker takes a swab sample to test for COVID-19 from a woman who looks up with her eyes closed and her mask pulled down below her chin.

Article by Claire Klobucista

December 20, 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology With Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt

Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt discuss the transformational power of artificial intelligence. The Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology addresses issues at the int…

Exercise on cyberwarfare and security shows a map with circular targets.

Virtual Event by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Judy Woodruff Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture

December 16, 2021

Democracy

Can Democracy Survive?

In the face of democratic backsliding around the world, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Applebaum and Richard Haass discuss what needs to happen for democracy to survive.

Podcast by Richard Haass Nine Questions for the World

November 1, 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Centennial Speaker Series Session 8: Will Technology Save Us or Threaten Us?

Fei-Fei Li discusses artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies that are certain to have enormous implications for this country and the world. This meeting is the eighth session in…

A health care worker with a patient and a surgical robotic arm is seen behind a screen of a computer.

Virtual Event by Fei-Fei Li and Richard Haass

October 20, 2021

Religion

Israel and Palestine: Challenges to Coexistence

Marc Gopin, director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution and James H. Laue professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, a…

Webinar by Marc Gopin, Zaha Hassan, and Steven A. Cook Religion and Foreign Policy Webinars