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June 11, 2008

Climate Change
CFR Task Force Calls for Overhaul of U.S. Climate Change Strategy

Against the backdrop of increasing attention to energy and climate change in the presidential campaigns, the recent failure of the Senate to advance the Lieberman-Warner climate bill, and preparation…

September 1, 2021

Climate Change
To Fight Climate Change, Countries Must Both Mitigate and Adapt, Argues Alice Hill in New Book

The pandemic has provided an unfortunate “dress rehearsal” for confronting catastrophic risk, writes Alice C. Hill, David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on …

April 7, 2020

News Release
The Federal Government Should Incentivize Risk Reduction in Building Practices, Writes CFR Climate Policy Expert

“Knowing that federal assistance is all but certain, state and local officials frequently ignore the disaster risks they create with their decisions on land-use and building standards,” writes Counci…

August 9, 2017

News Release
Experts in Energy and Climate Change, Russia, and Gender and Human Rights Join CFR

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) welcomes three fellows, Amy Myers Jaffe, James Goldgeier, and Caroline Bettinger-López, to its David Rockefeller Studies Program. “The diverse knowledge areas…

July 16, 2008

Trade
CFR’s Jagdish Bhagwati Argues Against Preferential Trade Agreements in New Book; Recommends Completion of Multilateral Doha Round

Contact: CFR Communications, 212-434-9888, [email protected] In his new book, Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade, Council Senior Fellow for Inter…

October 2, 2023

United States
U.S. Should Lead the Effort to Reform International Subsidies, Argues New CFR Report

“The United States should lead the effort to reshape the global rules to better serve its own interests and the international trading system’s changing realities,” claims a new Council Special Report…