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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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July 3, 2018
Fossil Fuels
Presidential Oil Tweets, Oil Prices, and the Cycle
U.S. presidential jawboning about oil prices has continued to grab headlines this week, with President Trump telling Fox News on Sunday that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) i…
January 12, 2012
United States
Iranian Scientists and U.S. Targeted Killings
Driving in rush hour traffic yesterday morning in Tehran, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, chemical engineer and department supervisor at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, was killed. Reportedly, two men on…
May 24, 2010
Homeland Security
A Conversation with Thomas J. Ridge
Former Homeland Security Secretary Thomas J. Ridge discusses his experiences as the first leader of the Department of Homeland Security, as well as other lessons from his career. This session was pa…
October 28, 2015
Technology and Innovation
Why University Research Is More Important Than Ever
A dangerous ideological current is coursing through the intellectual circuit, a political conviction dressed up as an empirical theory. Its proponents argue that public funding of basic scientific re…
October 16, 2009
Global
Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy: Session Two: The Economics
Watch experts analyze the economic effects of pandemic influenza including on the labor force and trade. This session was part of a CFR symposium, Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign…