Foreign Aid and Climate Change Policy: What Can(’t) the Data Tell Us?

What do glaciers tell us about climate change?

Glacier are pretty and move around a lot on the landscape due to the random stochastic climate forcing inherent to a constant climate. They obviously also respond to changes in climate. The tricky part is whether, in absence of direct instrumental measurements, climate changes can be inferred from variations in glacier length.

US Climate Change Policy Efforts

for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra), focuses on future international policies in the area of climate change. Carried out by a consortium of universities, think tanks and non-governmental organisations in Europe, India and the US, the main aim of the programme is directed towards the use of economic incentives and instruments in the implementation of climate policies, and towards the d...

The importance of science-informed policy and what the data really tell us about e-cigarettes

A possible future end-game for cigarettes is explored in the context of the historical progress made to date by tobacco control. Despite good progress, there remains an urgent need to increase the use of proven tobacco control policies and practices for prevention and cessation. The problem is worse than previously thought and the 50(th) anniversary United States Surgeon General's report indica...

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...