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President-elect Joe Biden and his climate envoy, John Kerry, at The Queen theater.

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Analysis & Opinions - Bloomberg Opinion

What Does Success Look Like for a Climate Czar?

| Dec. 02, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to create a new cabinet-level position for climate-related issues — and to choose so prominent a figure as former Secretary of State John Kerry to fill it — demonstrates Biden’s sincerity over putting climate at the very center of U.S. foreign policy. It is easy to understate the importance of this appointment, given the flurry of czars created by most new administrations.

A pro-Syrian regime protester waves a national flag as he stands in front of huge portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a protest against the Arabs and European sanctions, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Dec. 2, 2011.

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Analysis & Opinions - Bloomberg Opinion

Sanctions Alone Won’t Topple Syria’s Assad

| February 22, 2012

On Feb. 24, the U.S., European nations, members of the Arab League and other sympathetic countries making up the newly established “Friends of Syria” group will gather in Tunisia for an emergency meeting on how to stem the bloodshed in Syria. Their deliberations are almost certain to involve calls for more crippling sanctions to bring about regime change and debates over providing military support to the fractured opposition groups inside the country.