Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

City Century Why Municipalities Are the Key to Fighting Climate Change By Michael Bloomberg Cities account for at least 70 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions and face the worst risks from the ultimate consequences of those emissions. They hold the antidote to climate change as well.

China's 20 Percent Problem Millennial Migrants' Discontent By Damien Ma Relative to the overall population, China's migrants ar younger, more mobile, and not particularly smitten with the status quo. As a result, their expectations are shifting rapidly, increasing the possibility that their accumulated discontents will turn into a volatile force that catalyzes social instability.

Keep Your Word What the United States Must Do to Keep the Iranian Deal Healthy By Robert Gard If history is any guide, the North Korean nuclear negotiations failed not only because of Pyongyang's belligerence, but also because Washington did not act in good faith as a negotiator itself. If the Iranian deal is to be successful, the United States must follow through on the commitments it makes during the negotiating process.

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Announcing Foreign Affairs LIVE: Modernizing The Military On October 7, join Deputy Secretary Robert O. Work, Michele Flournoy of the Center for a New American Security, Greg Wenzel of Booz Allen Hamilton and more for an evening of discussion of the future of American military technology. Visit http://foreignaffairs.com/events/foreign-affairs-live-modernizing-military for details.

Acid Wash How Cold War Politics Helped Solve a Climate Crisis By Rachel Rothschild The most powerful lesson from the talks to solve acid rain is that, for any hope of success, addressing environmental issues must be linked with larger foreign policy objectives. It was only because the acid rain negotiations were so deeply embedded in the Cold War détente negotiations and European integration efforts that they led to real agreements. New scientific findings and technological breakthroughs in pollution control were necessary, but not sufficient, drivers of political momentum.

Bean Counters to the Rescue Can Accounting Save Capitalism From Itself? By Diane Coyle To save contemporary capitalism from its dangerous myopia, Jane Gleeson-White’s insightful book Six Capitals suggests a set of unusual prospective heroes: accountants, who can capture and quantify the factors that determine a firm’s reputation and thus its short-term financial value to shareholders and its long-term value to society.