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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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November 11, 2019
Treaties and Agreements
A Tale of Two Paris Agreements
The U.S. abdications of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Paris climate accords may be remembered as bookends to the American century.
November 9, 2020
Transition 2021
Rejoining the Paris Agreement Is the Easy Part for Biden on Climate Change
Biden’s election victory is a huge win for all who care about the living planet. The hard part will be delivering on his ambitious agenda.
March 22, 2024
United States
How Big a Climate Threat Are Atmospheric Rivers?
Atmospheric rivers are gaining in intensity across California and the western United States. Communities need to adapt to the havoc wrought by this weather phenomenon.
December 21, 2023
United States
These Eight Charts Show Why Fentanyl Is a Huge Foreign Policy Problem
Overdoses involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are the leading cause of death among young Americans and a threat to U.S. public health, the economy, and national security. Combating the epi…
September 18, 2023
Climate Change
The Energy Transition Is Fueling a Power Transition
Gender equality is a crucial missing piece of the climate puzzle. If governments want a fighting chance of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and shifting to renewable energy, they must give women mor…
September 21, 2020
Europe and Eurasia
France vs. Turkey: A Showdown in the Mediterranean Is Brewing
With Washington absent and Berlin indifferent, it has fallen to Paris to deter and defuse the situation.
