A Boston Globe news story on New Englanders who will be attending the upcoming global climate negotiations at Copenhagen features Boston University researchers from The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The Pardee Center has designated observer organization status from the United Nations for these and future climate change negotiations. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Is The Future Renewable?’ on Tuesday, November 17, 2009, featuring Prof. Michael Caramanis, Prof. William Moomaw and Dr. Miquel Munoz , who will discuss what our energy future will look like and if we are moving towards […]
Dr. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor of International Relations and of Geography and the Environment at Boston University, chaired a session and presented to the plenary of an international conference on Trade, Environment and Urbanization held at Peking University, Beijing, […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston Univeirsty was interviewed by the knowledge.allianz.com website, a knowledge portal established by the Allianz Group. Speaking about the prospects for the conference, Prof. Najam pointed out that, “I think Copenhagen will be an important milestone, […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, was interviewed in a feature video for the World Food Programme (WFP), headquartered in Rome, Italy. The video focussed on the issue of food security and climate change. The video can be viewed here. […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was one of the panelists at a seminar organized by the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs on “Pakistan-US Economic Relations.” The seminar was hosted by the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington DC and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold its next Pardee House Seminar on ‘Need, Greed and A Sustainable Future’ featuring Prof. Saleem H. Ali from University of Vermont who will talk about his book, Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and A Sustainable Future . Saleem H. Ali […]
Pardee Research Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin was invited to be a Resource Person at a week-long meeting on Asian e-waste governance organized by the Asian Productivity Organization in Taipei this week. He first presented on Oct 12, Monday, on European Union E-Waste Management. On Oct 15, he presented on Strategies for Regulating and Managing E-waste. […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy published an Op-Ed in The News (October 10, 2009), Pakistan’s largest English newspaper on the state of U.S.-Pakistan relations, in the context of the recently passed Kerry-Lugar […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in Washington D.C. The ACSP is the premier academic association of regional and urban planners and the theme for this year’s […]