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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.
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December 3, 2012
Cuba
Alan Gross Begins His Fourth Year in a Cuban Prison
Alan Gross begins his fourth year in a Cuban prison tomorrow, having been jailed on December 3, 2009. The State Department issued a good statement: Tomorrow Alan Gross will begin his fourth ye…
June 30, 2009
Economic Crises
Gross or Net International Financial Flows
Overview Many analysts, including Chairman Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve, have argued that global imbalances are an important causal factor of the global financial crisis. But it is not the …
April 4, 2006
United States
Bill Gross, no longer the bond king …
Bill Gross of PIMCO certainly seems to think foreign central banks matter - despite the arguments from some in the Fed (and the Treasury).Foreign central banks made famous and in fact prosperous by t…
February 29, 2024
United Nations
Funding the United Nations: How Much Does the U.S. Pay?
Many UN agencies, programs, and missions receive crucial funding from the United States. The Trump administration sharply reduced funding to some UN agencies, but President Biden has largely reversed…
April 10, 2014
China
Hunter Gross: Despite Cyber Espionage, U.S.-China Relations Are Business as Usual
Hunter Gross is an intern for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Just as U.S. president Barack Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping were set to meet in The Hague, documents leaked b…
February 18, 2014
China
Hunter Gross: What Did China and Taiwan’s Historic Talks Accomplish?
Hunter Gross is an intern for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. The four-day visit between Zhang Zhijun, director of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) and Wang Yu-chi, chairman of …
