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 Task Force Report, Beyond Rio + 20: Governance for a Green Economy, is featured on 3BL Media’s CSR Minute, a daily video digest of the most relevant Corporate Social Responsible news of the day.. The website distributes press releases, blogs, videos, podcasts, reports, newsletters and more to the growing audience of stakeholders interested in […]
David Levy, one of the contributors for the Pardee Center Task Force Report on Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a Green Economy, was featured on The Green Economy Post on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011. An edited version of his chapter contribution for the task force report is featured on the web site. David Levy is the Chair of […]
Transatlantic Perceptions of Climate Change: The Role of Arts and Media, a Pardee Center symposium organized in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Boston and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), was aired on German radio station, DRadio Wissen on Monday, May 9, 2011. The broadcast was split into two parts, to listen to […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin contributed a guest post titled “Principles for a Green Economy” to the Triple Crisis Blog. In the blog post, Selin wrote about the green economy task force that he convened at the Pardee Center together with the Center’s Director, Adil Najam, and the report “Beyond Rio + 20: Governance for […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin attended the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention held from April 27-29 in Geneva, Switzerland. Selin attended the meeting as part of his research on the global management of hazardous chemicals, which includes the Pardee Paper Managing Hazardous Chemicals: Longer-Range Challenges and his […]
On Friday, April 22, the John Sawyer Seminar on Energy Transitions and Society convened for its eighth and last meeting. The session entitled Geographies of Energy featured Peter O’Connor and Rania Ghosn, and was moderated by Cutler Cleveland, Professor of Geography and Environment at Boston University. Peter A. O’Connor is a doctoral candidate in the […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher co-authored an op-ed in Project Syndicate (syndicate column for hundreds of newspapers across the world) with former Colombia Minister of Finance Jose Antonio Ocampo and Director of Financial Markets Program at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue Stephany Griffith-Jones. The three authors will co-chair a Pardee Task Force workshop and […]
“Diplomacy for the Facebook Era” was the topic of discussion at a seminar sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 20. The seminar was organized and moderated on behalf of the Pardee Center by Amb. Paul Webster Hare, former British ambassador to Cuba who currently teaches […]
The Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a meeting of diplomacy experts on April 20 called “Diplomacy for the Facebook Era” organized and chaired by Amb. Paul Webster Hare, the former British ambassador to Cuba who currently is a Lecturer in Diplomacy at Boston University’s International Relations Department. The […]