Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The current global order has failed to prevent runaway climate change and biodiversity collapse, threatening human well-being and even survival. Reversing these trends will require governing the world as if the Earth mattered. In collaboration with other Carnegie experts, we will explore how to bring the multilateral system into line with planetary ecological realities.
The idea of reflecting sunlight into space to cool the Earth is controversial, but the Biden administration’s support for further research and multilateral cooperation is welcome.
Please join us for a conversation with Michèle Taylor, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, and Sarah Yager, Washington Director at Human Rights Watch. Carnegie Senior Fellow Stewart Patrick, Director of the Global Order and Institutions Program, will moderate the discussion.
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National sovereignty is here to stay, but a new worldview grounded in ecological realism could help close the distance between the political and natural worlds.
By addressing the questions raised by climate change, think tanks, including Carnegie, will be better able to help countries and policymakers through an enormously fraught, consequential, and complicated period of human history.
The reputational costs of climate hypocrisy are adding up.
Climate change is affecting the Middle East in far-reaching ways. To better prepare their societies to withstand its shocks, policymakers need to depart from top-down paradigms and involve a broader swath of their citizenry in climate adaptation.