Cities and Climate: Local Governments with Global Impact
On Thursday, June 1st, 2017, President Trump announced to the world that he would be pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Responses from mayors across the world have been strong and swift, with cities...
Trump Should Listen to the Business Argument for the Paris Agreement
Donald Trump campaigned on a platform that emphasized economic growth and catalyzing U.S. business development and job opportunities. This continues to be a top priority for him, as evidenced by his proposed corporate tax cuts...
Building a Climate-Ready Military
In the past decade, there has been increasing recognition within the national security establishment that climate change is a national security issue. The 2010 and 2014 Quadrennial Defense Reviews, flagship documents by the...
Climate Engineering and the Need for Global Governance
While the past few years have seen tremendous accomplishments in the fight against climate change, projections for changes in global temperature continue to be dire. Even if every country fulfills its commitments under the Paris...
Standing in Solidarity: Police Brutality at the NoDAPL Protests
Representatives from the United Nations and Amnesty International have travelled to Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to examine and investigate charges of mistreatment of protesters by local police. Testimonies from...
All is Not Lost: Maintaining Global Momentum on Climate Without the U.S.
The global outlook on climate change shifted radically in less than a week this November. The Paris Climate Agreement came into force on Friday, November 4, 2016. This allowed negotiators from the signatory countries to begin...
Will President Obama’s September Call to Action Secure His Climate Legacy?
On September 21, 2016, the White House released a memorandum requiring 20 federal agencies to work together to address the national security implications of climate change. Within 90 days of the release of the memorandum, those...
Power of Suggestion: Ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement
The historic ratification, made on September 3rd by the United States and China, comes less than a year after 195 countries agreed at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Growth and the Environment, A Response
In his April 30th article, “Two Environmental Lessons from the Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Index of Economic Freedom,” Sam Mulopulos uses the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom as a jumping off...
Why the Paris Climate Agreement is a Treaty
For all the applause for the Paris Climate Agreement, current treatment of the agreement is almost certainly a violation of the treaty clause of the U.S. Constitution.