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New Zealand – Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand (CFR)

Speaker The Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister, New Zealand Presider Richard N. Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, The World: A Brief Introduction; @RichardHaass Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discusses the...

Digital Revolutions – Social Justice Movements and Twitter: Digital Revolutions in the United States and Abroad (CFR)

Speakers Meighan Stone Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations Brooke Foucault Welles Associate Professor, Northeastern University Presider Catherine Powell Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and...

Global Order/USA – Challenges Facing the Global Order (CFR)

Ivo H. Daalder President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2009–2013); CFR Member Didi Kuo Associate Director for Research and Senior Research Scholar,...

Argentina – Rosario, Argentina Uses Urban Farming to Tackle Economic and Climate Crises (Anne Maassen and Madeleine Galvin, World Resources Institute)

The residents of Rosario, Argentina’s third-largest city, are no strangers to crises. When the country’s economy collapsed in 2001, a quarter of Rosario’s workforce was...

Climate Change/COP26 – Challenging Climate Negotiations Deliver Limited Progress Toward COP26 (Yamide Dagnet, Nathan Cogswell, Lorena Gonzalez, Mima Mendoza and Nataniel Warszawski, World Resources...

Over the past three weeks, climate negotiators gathered online for the UN Climate Change Subsidiary Bodies sessions, aiming to make progress on details within the...

Space/Sea Level Monitoring – New sea-level monitoring satellite goes live (ESA)

Following liftoff last November and more than six months spent carefully calibrating the most advanced mission dedicated to measuring sea-level rise, Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael...

Space/Climate Change – NASA: Earth’s energy imbalance has doubled over last 14 years (NASA)

The Earth's climate depends on how much of the Sun's radiative energy is absorbed and how much thermal infrared radiation is emitted from...

Climate Change – Making sense of frontier risks and identifying early warning signs (Gail Whiteman, WEF)

Frontier risks are characterized by unknown likelihood/unknown impacts – they may carry small signals, forecasting larger, more unpredictable disasters. In order to deal...

Sustainable Development/Fairer Economies/Human Rights – The elephant and the mouse: how corporate giants can avoid trampling on their stakeholders (John Morrison, Julia Olofsson, WEF)

• Business is increasingly keen to be seen to be doing due diligence on ESG. • The 'affected stakeholder' concept is a key way of...

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