Check out video from last week’s multilateral climate change dialogue with our partners at Japan Society.
ARTICLES
“We will not die quietly.”
By Mohamed Nasheed
If vulnerable developing countries make a commitment to carbon neutrality, those opposed to change have nowhere left to hide.
Will China Emerge Greener from the Global Economic Downturn?
By Leo Horn-Phathanothai
The economic downturn presents China with a historic opportunity to reorient its economy to a more stable and sustainable path, but emerging evidence from the green stimulus is discouraging.
A Close Relationship Requires Compromise
By Edward J. Lincoln
The most important accomplishment of President Obama’s trip to Japan would be to reassure Prime Minister Hatoyama that the tensions around Marine Corps Air Station Futenma will not interfere with the overall bilateral relationship.
More Walls to Fall
By Mikhail Gorbachev
Addressing climate change demands a paradigm shift on a scale akin to that required to end the Cold War. There is not just one wall to topple, but many.
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Building momentum for the transition to a resource-efficient economy calls for international cooperation, partnerships, and communication to protect biodiversity and ecosystems and their flows of services.
The Consumption Explosion
The Consumption Explosion argues that a recently revived focus on global population as an environmental issue is a critical distraction from tackling over-consumption in wealthy countries.
Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy
Modeled on the National Institutes of Health, a new National Institutes of Energy would effectively apply R&D funding to the goal of developing new, low-cost commercial clean energy technologies.
MULTIMEDIA
How Rights Move
By David Rodin, Joel Rosenthal
David Rodin explores the logic governing how rights may be lost, acquired, and transferred — how they “move” — and the implications this has for how we justify and prosecute war.
EVENTS
Web 2.0 and Corporate Accountability
November 19, 2009
Participant: Bill Baue, Marcy Murninghan, Jane Nelson
A Carnegie New Leaders discussion on the emerging findings from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative on social media and corporate accountability.