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

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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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August 11, 2022

United States

TWNW Special: What to Read and Listen to This Summer (Rebroadcast)

In this special episode of The World Next Week, Heather A. Conley, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, joins James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon to discuss the books they reco…

A woman reads at the Jakarta's Public Library in Jakarta, Indonesia, Oct. 27, 2021.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay, Robert McMahon, and Heather Conley The World Next Week

March 17, 2022

Climate Change

Climate Adaptation: Rising Tides in Coastal Cities

The world is already witnessing the effects of climate change. One inescapable and irreversible consequence is sea-level rise, which could destroy coastal cities. How will the world adapt to rising t…

Yellow taxi cabs submerged in floodwaters

Podcast by Gabrielle Sierra Why It Matters

June 9, 2022

United States

TWNW Special: What to Read and Listen to This Summer

Podcast by James M. Lindsay, Robert McMahon, and Heather Conley The World Next Week

December 15, 2016

United States

The President's Inbox: Cybersecurity

CFR's James M. Lindsay, Robert McMahon, Robert Knake, and Adam Segal examine President-Elect Donald Trump's priorities on cybersecurity.

A U.S. Air Force airman works under a data wall with screens blanked during a reporter's visit at Petersen Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay, Robert McMahon, Adam Segal, and Robert K. Knake The President’s Inbox

June 15, 2017

United States

BONUS: White House Summer Reading

This is a bonus segment from our summer reading special on our sister podcast, The World Next Week. On this part of the show Bob, Jim, and guest host Gayle Lemmon offer summer reading recommendations…

Podcast by Robert McMahon, James M. Lindsay, and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The President’s Inbox

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