Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Sophia Besch sits down with Stewart to unpack the recent announcement of Germany supplying Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and the future of European defense strategy.
An aborted ski season in Switzerland is likely to do more to drive climate politics than a heat wave in India, even if the latter causes immensely more human suffering.
With regard to the first issue, some learning has taken place. There seems to be general recognition that punitive policies to reduce emissions don’t generally work. This is why cap-and-trade was implemented in Europe and in US states like California in preference to the economists’ favorite carbon tax solution.
A one-stop source for following global trends in climate policy protests since 2022.
A fall in Russia’s GDP, decrease in its share in the global economy, and depopulation could all reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Russia, but can hardly be seen as genuine decarbonization.
Join Carnegie’s President Tino Cuéllar and Dr. Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO and Chairman of Google, for a conversation about how the technologies of tomorrow intersect with the geopolitics of today.
Fear is not an ignoble sentiment.
It is easier to track progress in climate policy than it is in most other fields, and plain to see that the European approach has been more successful than the American. According to Climate Action Tracker, EU greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 28 percent between 1990 and 2021.
The agreement moves Doha closer to Beijing, which has been meticulously building up its presence in the Gulf.
The Biden administration wanted to send a clear message of strong re-engagement in Africa.