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In Dubai, leaders should focus their attention on policy solutions for vulnerable regions where climate change is amplifying the consequences of armed conflict and compounding failures of governance.

This CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report seeks to do just that, framing pandemic disease as a stark threat to global and national security that neither the United States nor the world can afford to ignore again.

The federal government pays for development decisions when disasters hit. In light of climate change, the federal government should insist on local risk reduction.

Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfire damage to critical energy infrastructure in the U.S., according to a new Council on Foreign Relations report.

Climate change affects virtually every aspect of the U.S. energy system. As climatic effects such as rising seas and extreme weather continue to appear across many geographies, U.S.

Amidst DRC’s Ebola outbreak, efforts to curb disinformation and conspiracy theories on social media has been unsuccessful and pose a serious threat to global health.

The climate fate of Pacific islands may depend on them using their front row seat in the power struggle between the U.S., China and Australia for Pacific influence.

Alyssa Ayres, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations writes in an opinion piece that a major part of Nepal’s vulnerability to earthquake disaster lay in poor infrastructure governance. She continues that despite Nepal having developed a National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management in 2008, and its work to implement it, progress has been halting due to the country’s problem of on-again-off-again government especially during 2012 and 2013...