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Jan 13, 2025 | 
cfr.org | Alice C. Hill
Alice C. Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. More From Our Experts What is happening in Los Angeles alters not only the landscape of the nation’s second-largest city, but also who lives in it and how it does business. Loss estimates have ranged up to $150 billion, with more than ten thousand structures destroyed or damaged. An area about the size of St. Louis, Missouri, has burned.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michelle Gavin |Alice C. Hill |Margaret MacMillan |Alexander Cooley
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michelle Gavin |Alice C. Hill |Matias Spektor |Margaret MacMillan
The global South has been a net winner from the shifts in global power over the last two decades. The growing influence of emerging economies, the rise of China as a great power, tensions between the United States and its European allies, and increasing great-power competition have given these countries new leverage in global affairs.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michelle Gavin |Alice C. Hill |Alina Polyakova |Samuel Charap
In June 2024, Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, presented a plan he co-authored with the former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz that proposed halting the delivery of U.S. weapons to Ukraine if Kyiv didn’t enter into peace talks with Moscow—but also warning Moscow that if it refused to negotiate with Kyiv, Washington would increase its support for Ukraine.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
businessgreen.com | Alice C. Hill
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Alice C. Hill
Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. How serious is the loss and damage from Hurricane Milton? More From Our Experts At landfall, Milton carried winds of 120 miles-per-hour or more and life-threatening storm surge, cascading into one of the most intense hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. The hurricane left 3.5 million people without electricity.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Alice C. Hill
This September, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) will gridlock New York City. So will Climate Week. Claiming to be the largest of its kind, the annual convocation of climate activists, scientists, academics, and business and political leaders is scheduled to coincide with the meeting of world leaders. Their goal is to spur greater action on climate change, despite mixed results. What is UN Climate Week?
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Alice C. Hill
Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. More From Our Experts Forty years ago, U.S. Supreme Court justices articulated what has become known as the Chevron deference doctrine, ruling that judges must defer to a federal agency’s “reasonable” interpretation of an ambiguous statute. Since then, federal courts have applied Chevron deference in thousands of cases.
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May 8, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Thomas J. Bollyky |Chloe Searchinger |Alice C. Hill |Zongyuan Liu |Benn Steil
A regular series on the choices faced by international economic policymakersDifficult Trade-Offs Hinder U.S. Industrial Policy on Health Thomas J. Bollyky and Chloe Searchinger More From Our Experts During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world ran out of everything.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Alice C. Hill
Carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere reached an all-time high last year—424 parts per million. That is likely the highest level since three million years ago, when trees grew in the polar regions and sea levels were up to twenty meters higher. Meanwhile, scientists warn that unless heating caused by the accumulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is contained, the planet is hurtling toward a catastrophic increase in global average temperatures.
