Year: 2011

Ambassador Park, Republic of Korea, discusses Rio+20 with Summer Fellows

Ambassador In-kook Park, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations and Co-Chair of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) discussed the issues and prospects for Rio+20 in a luncheon roundtable with Pardee Center Summer Fellows on July 1st. During his remarks, Ambassador Park noted the key issues relating to […]

Dr. Muñoz at Ministerial Energy on Energy and the Green Industry

Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Pardee Center, and Kandeh K. Yumkella, UNIDO Director-General Pardee Center Fellow Dr. Miquel Muñoz participated in the Ministerial Energy on Energy and the Green Industry, held in Vienna, Austria, on 21–22 June. The meeting, held in parallel to the UNIDO-organized Vienna Energy Forum, brought together ministers and high-level officials from over 70 […]

Muñoz Authors Paper on EU’s Climate and Energy Package in Law Journal

Pardee Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Miquel Muñoz, in collaboration with Dr. Elisa Morgera and Dr. Kati Kulovesi, has published a paper, titled “Environmental integration and multi-faceted international dimensions of EU law: Unpacking the EU’s 2009 climate and energy package,” in the journal Common Market Law Review. In this 64-page paper, Kulovesi, Morgera, and Muñoz analyze in […]

Pardee Center Co-sponsors Water Diplomacy Workshop

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was one amongst a number of co-sponsors of a unique, train-the-trainers workshop on water diplomacy held at Tufts University in Boston from June 13 – 17, 2011. The workshop was organized by Tufts University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Water Diplomacy […]

Silva and Suarez Discuss Disasters with Summer Fellows

Enrique Silva, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the City Planning and Urban Affairs Program at Boston University and Pablo Suarez, Associate Director of Programs for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, and an advisor for Oxfam America’s Private Sector Team spoke to the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows during an informal lunch at Pardee House on […]

Pardee Center Hosts Scholar from Italy

This summer, the Pardee Center is hosting a visiting scholar, Daniele Brombal. He is a doctoral candidate in East Asian Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and is currently carrying out a research project aimed at analyzing institutional determinants of public healthcare policies in contemporary rural P.R.China. Between 2007 and 2010, Daniele was Research […]

Gatune and Najam Publish Paper in Journal Foresight on Africa’s Future

Dr. Julius Gatune, Visiting Fellow, and Prof. Adil Najam, Director, have published a paper in the journal Foresight based on the 2010 Pardee Center conference “Africa 2060: Good News From Africa”. The conference was part of the ongoing program of research on Africa 2060 at the Boston Univeristy Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study […]

2011 Pardee Center Summer Program Begins

The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future kicked off its 2011 Summer Program today with the arrival of the 2011 batch of Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows. Launched in 2008 and formalized in 2009, this is the third year of the Summer Fellows program. The 2011 class of […]

Pardee Center Director Speaks in Ethiopia on Green Economy and Rio+20

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 of Geography and the Environment, spoke at the Ethiopian national dialogue on the forthcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD). The Ethiopian national dialogue was held in Addis Ababa […]