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When world leaders convene to discuss climate change in Copenhagen this December, they'd be wise to discuss the role of women, the United Nations Population Fund announced this week.

The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review Report (pdf) has been anything but a strategic watershed for U.S. nuclear policy. A congressionally-mandated review that establishes the nuclear policy, strategy, force posture, and capabilities of the United States for the next five to ten years, this NPR aggressively promotes the Obama administration's vision for realizing a nuclear free world. But rather than proscriptive policy for definitive action on real issues, the review is more about political posturing and ideological blustering leaving U.S. policymakers without the necessary suite of options for hedging against nuclear risks and addressing the multi-faceted set of challenges this nation faces.

At the Copenhagen climate change conference next week, world leaders will negotiate who should make the biggest sacrifices to lower their emissions. The prevailing theory is that countries such as China and India should lead the effort, because they churn out the most greenhouse gases. But as a new report points out, this argument denies an essential fact: That much of those emissions are because of exports to developed nations like the United States.