The Foreign Service Journal, May 2023

20 MAY 2023 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL international cooperation to improve access to adequate financial resources, particularly for vulnerable regions, and inclusive governance and coordinated policies, saying that our choices and actions in the next decade “will have impacts now and for thousands of years.” If industrialized nations work together to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and then move to net zero emissions by the early 2050s, there is a 50 percent chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius—a num- ber every nation agreed to pursue under the 2015 Paris Climate Accords. n This edition of Talking Points was compiled by Donna Scaramastra Gorman. A call was made at the Consular Bureau of the State Depart- ment on February 20 by Mr. William A. Kenyon, an inspector of the Post Office Department, who has recently returned to Washington from an extended official visit to Europe in connection with the international mail service. Mr. Kenyon desires to extend thanks on behalf of the Post Office Department to the Consular officers in France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Roumania, Greece and other countries visited for the assistance rendered him in his official investigations. He reports that desk space and interpreter’s service were furnished himwhenever required at all the Consulates, and his postal investigations were facilitated by this admirable cooperation on the part of the Consular officers. The method of dealing directly with foreign postal administra- tions is an innovation on the part of the Post Office Department, and Mr. Kenyon reports that the improvements already effected, the cessation of enormous depreda- tions, the recovery and return to senders of thousands of undeliver- able parcel-post packages, and the return to the United States of mail equipment valued at over a hundred thousand dollars, has demonstrated the value of personal contact with the postal administrations of the other countries. — Unsigned news item in the May 1923 American Consular Bulletin . 100 Years Ago Pleasing Appreciation As reported in the March Journal , AFSA is strongly in favor of the decision by the State Department to be more inclusive of applicants with disabilities. Less Than a Decade to Stop Climate Catastrophe T he Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report on March 20 stating that the international community has a “rapidly closing win- dow of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all,” but this will require “deep, rapid, and sustained global greenhouse gas emissions reduc- tion” over the next decade. Report authors call for increased