The opening plenary of the Alliance for Global Sustainability’s annual meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology featured a panel discussion on the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change.
The Boston Globe calls Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adill Najam, “The Moderator” and describes him as a “Global Citizen” who has “gone from sharing a Nobel Prize to starting a blog where Pakistanis can share views peacefully.
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Pardee Center, was quoted in the New York Times and other media outlets on the brewing debate over just how much of the climate change problem can be addressed with existing technologies.
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future introduces the initial publication in a new series titled “Issues in Brief.”
The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University becomes a content provider to the Encyclopedia of the Earth (EoE), and the first batch of Pardee Center material is now available at the EoE Portal.
Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam as one of the featured speakers at a conference on “Changing Cities” held to mark the 75th Anniversary of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Pardee Center Fellow, Prof. Kevin Gallagher comments on how international trade issues are playing out in the US Presidential elections.
Prof. Randall Ellis, one of the three speakers in the forthcoming Pardee Center Seminar on “Disease and Development” was interviewed by BUToday in a story about the Seminar and about international health challenges.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and Frederick S. Pardee Visiting Professor Murray Gell-Mann introduces the concept of complexity and explains how a relatively large number of individual components interact to form regularities, which may come to form a complex system.
The next seminar in the Pardee Center inter-disciplinary seminar series on key future challenges will be a panel discussion on “Trade and Development” featuring Tariq Banuri (SEI) and Mark Halle (IISD) and BU professors Sushil Vachani (Management) and Kevin Outterson (Law).