Pardee Center Director Speaks at Aga Khan University

Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, presented the FAS-HASS Collaborative Lecture at the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan on December 23, 2010 on “Climate Change, Security and Development: Why Should Pakistan Care?”

The lecture, given to an audience of faculty and students from the Aga Khan University as well as other educational institutions in Karachi focussed on the linkages between climate change, development and human security and focused on the implications of these linkages to Pakistan. Prof. Najam stressed that developing countries like Pakistan need to care deeply about climate change, but differently from high-emission industrialized countries. In particular, they need to view climate change as a development concern rather than only as an environmental concern.

Earlier, on December 21, 2010, Prof. Najam chaired a session on the role of Think Tanks in South Asia and in South Asian regional integration at the Annual Sustainable Development Conference of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad, Pakistan. The Pardee Center is currently engaged in a book project on the future of South Asia.