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No Blue, No Green: Climate Change and the Fate of the Oceans
Coauthored with Alexandra Kerr, assistant director of the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Extreme fluctuations in the global environment...
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Senator Rubio and U.S. “Leadership”: Three Questions for the Candidate
The decision by Marco Rubio to seek the Republican presidential nomination is audacious. But it would be a mistake to underestimate the first-term senator from Florida. As the current occupant of the...
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Earth Gets Its Day: When Will It Get Its Due?
Earth Day 2015 finds the planet in dire straits. Future generations will mock the inanity of designating a single day each year to honor the Earth while despoiling the planet on which human well-being...
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Turning the Tide on Global Ocean Acidification
Last night I had the honor to participate in a great New York event—the announcement of the winners of the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPrize, presented by Foreign Affairs LIVE. Two years ago, the...
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Oceans and Climate Change: A Bleak Outlook
Coauthored with Naomi Egel, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. As the Paris climate meeting rapidly approaches, the...
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Paris is Just One Piece of the Climate Change Puzzle
Coauthored with Naomi Egel, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Next week’s Paris meeting on climate...
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2016: Seven Summits to Watch
From the breakthrough at the Paris climate change conference to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals at the UN General Assembly, summits in 2015 heralded major progress in international...
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A G20 Agenda for China: Meeting the World’s Infrastructure, Climate, and...
This week thousands of government officials, journalists, academics, and private sector and civil society representatives convene in Washington for the spring meetings of the World Bank and...
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A Brighter Future for the Planet
Coauthored with Naomi Egel, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations This year, the global environmental outlook is sunnier...
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America’s Stakes in the Oceans Go Well beyond the South China Sea
This week the Chinese and Russian navies launched eight days of war games in the South China Sea. For Beijing, it’s a chance to brush off the July ruling by an international tribunal dismissing the...
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