Global Affairs Digest

Climate tech investment hit a record $2.3 trillion in 2025, up 8%, led by electrified transport, renewables and grids that captured 90% of...

Two paths test whether new global health architecture fixes inequality and accountability.

• Institutional efforts stress community participation,...

尼泊尔8月26日洪水由冰岩崩塌引发，随后堰塞湖溃决造成二次灾害。

气候变暖加速冰川融化与永冻土解冻，使高山地区灾害更具连锁性。

类似事件近年在印度、瑞士等地频发，水利设施扩张进一步放大风险。

U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent's yen-buying intervention with Japan, funded via the ESF, hints at emerging currency coordination to tackle trade...

A US strike on Iranian rocket launchers shattered a month-long calm in the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran vowing retaliation and crude prices jumping...

DSRB仅获约50亿欧元承诺，远低于1000亿欧元目标，德英等G7国家拒绝加入，凸显成员国战略与政治承诺不足，难以实现AAA评级或真正缓解盟友扩军融资难题。

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh used his Jackson Hole speech to restore credibility by firmly recommitting to the Fed's 2% PCE inflation target and rejecting...

A carbon tax prices fossil fuel emissions to encourage lower greenhouse gas output in a cost-effective market approach, yet its real-world success hinges on details that shape distributional and economic effects.

The Iran conflict has shifted air-defense interceptors and munitions from Europe and Asia, pushing some US stockpiles to "beyond critical" levels and...

• U.S. action targets Iran's access to UAE banks, expanding secondary sanctions exposure for continued business with Tehran and speeding...

Six months after the February strikes, the conflict has become a prolonged stalemate with no clear exit.

• Human toll: Over 8,000 killed region-wide,...

El Niños are now over 36% stronger than pre-industrial levels due to human-caused warming, with the increase accelerating sharply in recent decades....

A key book highlights the empirical and analytical challenges of modeling land use and land-use change within global climate policy frameworks. These issues shape how mitigation costs, policy design, and distributional impacts are assessed.

Record heat and wildfire smoke disrupted outdoor sports this summer, from World Cup soccer to damaged ski areas and closed trout streams.

• Vermont...

• Adaptation limits are clear as Bangladesh faces irreversible losses from cyclones, floods, and sea-level rise
• L&D has become a distinct third...

A glacier and the bedrock beneath it collapsed on Langtang Lirung, sending millions of tons of rock and ice into valleys and rivers below and...

Regional data from India's 2026 climate opinion maps highlights clear patterns in public experience and risk perception.

• North-south split:...

Stratospheric aerosol injection offers rapid cooling but carries uncertain global side effects—including ozone depletion, disrupted rainfall patterns,...

Sustaining Africa's polio-free status now depends on embedding surveillance, labs and immunization into national health systems as GPEI funding falls....

The US military is adapting bases and operations for climate disruption while largely ignoring its own major role in driving emissions. This focus on security threats diverts resources from actual emissions cuts and the energy transition.