Year: 2011

Pardee Fellow Co-authors Paper on European Union Climate and Energy Package

Pardee Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Miquel Muñoz, jointly authored a paper on the European Union Climate and Energy Package that has been accepted for publication at the prestigious Common Market Law Review journal, the leading journal on European Union Law. The article, jointly written with Dr. Elisa Morgera from the University of Edimburgh, and Dr. […]

Pardee Center Director Participates in HDR Advisory Board Meeting

Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, participated in the first meeting of the Advisory panel for the 2011 Human Development Report, produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The […]

Miquel Muñoz Attends World Future Energy Summit

Frederick S. Pardee postdoctoral fellow Dr. Miquel Muñoz Cabré attended the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi on 17-20 January, 2011. During the summit, Dr. Muñoz presented his research proposal on a Global Facility for the promotion of renewable energies in developing countries to potential sponsors, and strengthened the linkages between the Pardee Center […]

Cutler Cleveland Speaks on the Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster

Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Cutler Cleveland, Professor in Boston University’s Department of Geography and Environment, moderated a panel discussion during a special symposium on the Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster at the annual conference of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) in Washington, D.C. on January 19. Titled “Root Causes of Incidents […]

Pardee House Seminar (Jan. 31) on Global Philanthropy for Development

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold the first Pardee House Seminar of the new year on Monday, January 31, 2011, on ‘Global Philanthropy and Development.’ The seminar will feature Paula D. Johnson (The Philanthropic Initiative), Pardee Center Visiting Fellow Prof. John Hammock (Tufts University) and Dr. Shamsh […]

Pardee Center Director Speaks at the UN on Rio+20 Preparations

Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, was invited by the United Nations to speak to delegates at the First Intersessional Meeting for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (popularly called […]

Prof. Adil Najam Appointed to MIT Visiting Committee

Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, has been appointed to the Visiting Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation. Prof. Najam will serve for a two-year term on […]

Sawyer Seminars on Energy and Society for Spring 2011 Begin on Jan. 28

Following the success of the John Sawyer Seminars in Fall 2010, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment will continue to convene the John Sawyer Seminars at Boston University on Energy Transitions and Society for Spring 2010. The first seminar in this Spring 2011 series will […]

Prof. Najam’s Feature Interview Appears in ‘The News’

The News International, Pakistan’s largest selling English newspaper, published a wide-ranging conversation and interview with Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and the Environment, in its weekend magazine (January 2, 2011). Describing Prof. […]