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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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April 23, 2012
Middle East and North Africa
The Economic Roots of the Arab Spring
Hernando de Soto, president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, discusses how economic factors, including formal and informal markets, property rights, entrepreneurship, and access to credit,…
December 5, 2012
Gender
Diversifying Global Supply Chains
ISOBEL COLEMAN: Good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us here today. I'm Isobel Coleman. I'm a senior fellow here at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the Ci…
December 31, 1969
Gender
Leveraging New Technology for Women's Economic Empowerment: Understanding and Expanding Distribution Networks
Watch experts give examples of bringing technologies to developing countries and how distribution of these products works. This session was part of The ExxonMobil Women and Development Roundtable Se…
October 19, 2020
Nigeria
Nigerian Demonstrations Becoming About More Than the Police
Following nationwide demonstrations—first against the elite Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and then the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit, its successor—the Buhari administration has abolished the former and promised wide-ranging police reforms.
June 1, 2011
Gender
Innovations and Innovators: Using Agricultural Technologies to Empower Women
PEDRO SANCHEZ: (In progress.) I was -- I joined Columbia University to start agriculture there, tropical agriculture -- interesting thing for a major urban university to do. And then Secretary --…