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 New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

This interactive examines how nationwide bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as proposed by the Biden administration on April 28, 2022, could help shrink the racial gap on U.S. lung cancer death rates.

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Health

How New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

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July 10, 2024

United States

Future Wars: The Nexus of Technology and the Military

Panelists discuss the Silicon Valley’s role in the future of war and whether or not the Pentagon is successfully innovating rapidly enough to keep up with the technological changes facing the militar…

A marine stands above an Unmanned Vehicle Robot, Testudo, at the launch of the Defence Technology Plan in London.

Event by Christopher M. Kirchhoff, Anne Neuberger, Raj Shah, and Carla Anne Robbins

June 17, 2024

United States

World Economic Update

The World Economic Update highlights the quarter’s most important and emerging trends. Discussions cover changes in the global marketplace with special emphasis on current economic events and their i…

A man uses a smart phone in front of an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage.

Event by Karen Karniol-Tambour, Jens Nordvig, Adam Posen, and Sebastian Mallaby Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

June 20, 2024

United States

Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: Turning Point—The Bomb and The Cold War

The Netflix series Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War is an exploration of the decades-long conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union framed by current events that reveal the Cold…

A cinematographer films an atomic mushroom cloud in a project named "Operation Plumbbob" Colorado.

Event by Brian Knappenberger, Lynn Rusten, Andy Weber, and Timothy Naftali

July 11, 2024

Daily News Brief

NATO Names China a ‘Decisive Enabler’ of Russia’s War, and Other Headlines of the Day

The Daily News Brief

Article by CFR.org Editors

June 12, 2024

Economics

Global Growth Tracker: World Economies by GDP

This tracker charts the economic growth performance through time of ninety-one countries around the globe.

Article by Benn Steil Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

June 18, 2024

United States

Virtual Roundtable: The Pandemic Agreement and IHR Amendments After the World Health Assembly

In response to COVID-19, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have been negotiating to create a pandemic agreement and to amend the existing International Health Regulations (IHR). Th…

A bat ecologist, detangles a bat caught on a mist net that was set up in front of a building with a bat roost at the University of the Philippines Los Banos.

Virtual Event by David P. Fidler, Suerie Moon, and Thomas J. Bollyky Global Health Program

April 24, 2024

Ukraine

Weapons of War: The Race Between Russia and Ukraine

The new U.S. aid package will reestablish a critical flow of weapons to Ukraine’s military, but the war will hinge greatly on which side can ramp up and sustain its firepower and troop numbers in the…

An employee handles 155 mm caliber shells after the manufacturing process at an ammunition plant in Scranton, PA.

Expert Brief by Max Boot Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy

June 18, 2024

Sudan

Sudan’s Ongoing Civil War, With Michelle Gavin

Michelle Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the ongoing deadly conflict and humanitarian crisis in Sudan.