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

Health

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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October 6, 2023

Russia

The President’s Inbox Recap: Getting Russia Right

The early post-Cold War promise of a U.S.-Russia partnership never materialized.

Vladimir Putin as viewed shaking Joe Biden's hand.

Blog Post by Michelle Kurilla The Water's Edge

March 22, 2024

United States

Election 2024: Are Americans Turning Isolationist?

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Much like talk of Mark Twain’s death, claims that Americans are turning their back on the world are…

The sun as viewed disappearing beneath the horizon.

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

December 4, 2023

Health

Virtual Roundtable: Financing of Primary Health Care and the Central Role and Important Limitations of Capitation

FRIEDEN: Thanks so much. And thanks for joining us. I'm really looking forward to this discussion. Dr. Kara Hanson has led important work assessing financing in health care. And you might say: Why is…

Virtual Event by Kara Hanson and Tom Frieden Global Health Program

December 27, 2023

Ukraine

The President’s Inbox Recap: The Future of the War in Ukraine

Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive failed to produce the big breakthrough that Kyiv and its supporters hoped for.

Ukrainian soldiers as viewed in the back of a truck bed.

Blog Post by Michelle Kurilla The Water's Edge

October 6, 2020

COVID-19

The Path to a COVID-19 Vaccine

How is a vaccine developed? Can a vaccine end the COVID-19 pandemic? Senior Fellow Tom Bollyky answers pressing questions about the search for a coronavirus vaccine.

Explainer Video by Thamine Nayeem

October 2, 2020

COVID-19

Virtual Roundtable: COVID-19 in Africa

COVID-19 has killed more than a million people around the world. When COVID-19 emerged, it was assumed that Africa would be hard hit, but the impact from its disruption is likely to be much larger th…

Three Maasai elders, wearing traditional costumes in red and gold, with face masks.

Virtual Event by Lia Tadesse and Tom Frieden Global Health Program

June 8, 2023

Public Health Threats and Pandemics

Public Health Lessons From COVID-19

Thomas J. Bollyky, senior fellow for global health, economics, and development and director of the Global Health program at CFR, leads a conversation on observations and lessons learned from states’ …

Webinar by Thomas J. Bollyky and Irina A. Faskianos State and Local Webinars