Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
It has held that dubious distinction for many years now and shows no sign of relinquishing the title.
Speaking at The Washington Institute on November 13, State Department Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Nathan Sales announced new diplomatic and financial sanctions against Tehran and its terrorist proxies.
In this podcast, Vice President for Communications Lawrence MacDonald interviews the authors of recent WRI commentary “Deploying Adaptation Finance for Maximum Impact,” Christina Chan, Director of the Climate Resilience Practice, and Niranjali Amerasinghe, Senior Associate for Sustainable Finance.
The authors of this commentary unpack the history of climate adaptation finance and why development and climate funds continue to operate separately.
Overfishing has strained most global fish stocks. But the European Union has made progress bringing back one popular species: North Sea cod.
The flaky white fish—a British staple when battered and served with chips—has rebounded after plummeting to critically low levels in the late 2000s.
In this episode, we go to one of London’s oldest fish and chips restaurants and learn how quotas can be used to help other stocks recover.
As our topic today is “Wellbeing in Northern Ireland,” I think it’s important to emphasize that Senator Mitchell is not only a diplomat and a statesman, he is also a grassroots politician, and an extraordinarily successful one at that.
He rose to become Senate Majority Leader in the early 1990s, leading legislative efforts on health care, environmental protection, improving resources for people with disabilities, and improving the economy for working people everywhere.
Over a year after the rupture that divided the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), there is no end to the dispute in sight.
In this episode, Dr. Kristian Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East here at the Baker Institute and one of our country’s top experts on the GCC and Persian Gulf, addresses these and other questions of urgent import to US policy makers.
In this podcast, IMF economists Todd Schneider and Gee Hee Hong say Japan has no choice but to embrace robots and automation to help the shrinking workforce become more productive.
Todd Schneider, is a Deputy Division Chief, and Gee Hee Hong, is an economist, both in the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department.