Chart of the Day: These are the International Issues “Generation Z” and Millennials Care Most About Mark Leon Goldberg September 12, 2018Update: The full results of this poll are now available. It shows that young Americans are keenly engaged in international issues and have favorable views of the United Nations. This cuts across party lines. A majority of Republicans believe the UN is supporti...
The Inside Story of How the World Closed the Hole in the Ozone Layer Mark Leon Goldberg July 23, 2018The year is 1985. Ronald Reagan is president. Margaret Thatcher is prime minister of the United Kingdom. Michael Jackson, White Snake and George Michael are dominating the billboard charts. Back to the Future is a smash hit at the box office.And scien...
One Year After Trump Ditched the Paris Agreement, Where Are We? John Light June 5, 2018One year ago this month, US President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw his country from the Paris Agreement. After playing a key role in pulling the agreement together, the US, now under new leadership, dealt it its greatest blow. The result ma...
A Paris Agreement for the Shipping Industry John Light April 18, 2018The UN agency that oversees shipping, the International Maritime Organization, adopted its first-ever deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions last week. On Friday, the IMO, which has more than 170 member nations, announced that it would oversee efforts by ship...
The Omission of “Climate Change” from the New US National Security Strategy Could Have Broad Diplomatic Consequences John Light December 20, 2017Earlier this week, Donald Trump put out a National Security Strategy that made no mention of climate change. This struck some observers as curious, given that many of his top generals — including Secretary of Defense James Mattis — have gone on the record ...
PODCAST: How California is Leading the Way on Climate Change Mark Leon Goldberg November 2, 2017If California were a country, it would be the sixth largest economy in the world. Its population is greater than countries like Poland and Canada.So what happens in California can very much impact the rest of the world. And one fairly direct manifestat...
Nicaragua will sign the Paris Agreement, leaving only the US and Syria on the sidelines John Light September 22, 2017Soon, the US and war-torn Syria will be the only countries uninterested in participating in the Paris Agreement.This week, El Nuevo Diario, one of Managua’s major newspapers, reported that Nicaragua’s president, Daniel Ortega, had committed to signing the ...
This hurricane season shows why small islands pushed so hard for climate action John Light September 7, 2017With Hurricane Irma battering much of the Caribbean, currently plowing its way past the Dominican Republic, toward Haiti, Cuba and onward to the US, two other hurricanes formed in the Atlantic. This phenomenon — three hurricanes in the Atlantic at the same ti...
Climate Change Will Cause 250,000 Additional Deaths Per Year. Here’s How It Will Kill US Alanna Shaikh, MPH June 9, 2017President Trump announced last week that he will be pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, the world’s best shot at keeping climate change to survivable levels. It is a short-sighted decision that is going to put US companies at global comp...
