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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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March 9, 2023
Democracy
Civic Responsibilities With CFR President Richard Haass
CFR President Richard Haass leads a conversation on expanding the idea of citizenship and ensuring the survival of American democracy. His new book, The Bill of Obligations: Ten Habits of Good Citize…
September 23, 2015
Climate Change
The UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Opportunity for Niche Diplomacy by Middle-Power Korea
Brendan Howe is a professor at Ewha Womans University’s Graduate School of International Studies. From September 25 to 27, South Korean President Park Geun-hye will be attending the United Nations (…
September 15, 2023
Sustainable Development Goals (UN)
A Vision for Sustainable Development With Linda Thomas-Greenfield
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield discusses the Sustainable Development Goals, avoiding the cynicism trap, and ways the United States and the United Nations can work toget…
June 19, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Facts on the Ground: the Israeli Settlement Slowdown
Criticism of construction in Israeli settlements has grown in the last five years, not least in Washington--but in this same period Israel has been focusing more and more of the construction in less …
October 7, 2019
Syria
The Syrian Conflict Is About to Intensify
President Donald J. Trump’s announcement of a troop withdrawal in northern Syria ahead of a Turkish invasion could revive the Islamic State and the Syrian civil war, and signal the end of U.S. influe…
January 24, 2020
Local and Traditional Leadership
Facing Rising Insecurity, Southwest Governors in Nigeria Launch Policing Initiative
In southwest Nigeria (Yorubaland), the location of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, there has been a dramatic upsurge in kidnapping, house invasions, and robbery. On January 9, the governors of the six states in the region announced the establishment of Operation Amotekun (“leopard” in the Yoruba language).
