Pardee Center Director and Faculty Fellow Quoted in the Daily Free Press

TonyHenrikFrederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Director Anthony Janetos was featured in an October 30, 2014 article in the Daily Free Press titled “Boston University staff, students support adoption of new standardized climate change indicator system.” The article discusses an indicator system that would show impacts and response strategies to climate change, which Prof. Janetos said must be implemented in order to make real change.

Pardee Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of International Relations Henrik Selin was also quoted in the article. “An indicator system would be a very valuable addition to the more global-scale modeling and climate change research…Right now, climate change for most people is something that is happening far, far away. If this indicator system can help us better understand what that means for us here, people might have a better chance to connect and relate with that, which could be an important indirect influence on policy,” said Selin.

Prof. Janetos noted that the 2014 National Climate Assessment Report, which he served on the external federal advisory committee for and is also a co-convening lead author on the mitigation chapter, will help the public and private sectors to better understand proactive solutions to climate change impacts. A system of indicators will “provide meaningful, authoritative, climate-relevant measures about the status, rates and trends of key physical, ecological and societal variables and values,” he said.

At an October 23 talk at Boston University titled “Developing Indicators of Impacts and Change in the U.S. – Sustaining National Assessments of Climate Change,” Prof. Janetos discussed further the value a standardized climate change indicator system would have on climate change research.