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January 22, 2013

Climate Change
Climate Change in Obama’s Second Term

President Obama surprised pretty much everyone when he spent a considerable part of his inaugural address talking about the need to confront climate change. It suggests a willingness to tackle the is…

November 7, 2013

The World Next Week: UN Climate Change Conference Begins in Poland, the IAEA Visits Iran, and TTIP Negotiations Resume

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the upcoming conference on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the International Atomic Energy Agency (I…

A wind farm in Guazhou, China (Carlos Barria/Courtesy Reuters).

September 26, 2014

China
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of September 26, 2014

Ashlyn Anderson, Lauren Dickey, Darcie Draudt, Andrew Hill, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia today. 1. India becomes the first Asian nation to reach Mars. India’s spac…

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December 15, 2015

Global
Ten Most Significant World Events in 2015

As 2015 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the past year.

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December 18, 2015

Economics
Budget Deal Oil-for-Renewables Trade Would Substantially Reduce Carbon Emissions

This post is coauthored by Varun Sivaram and Michael Levi. Congress is set to vote on a budget deal that would permanently end the long-standing ban on crude oil exports in exchange for temporary ex…

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