Boston University will convene an all-day conference titled “Development That Works” on Thursday, March 31, 2011 which will bring together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss development ideas that have been demonstrated or have the potential to lead to sustainable and effective development. The conference is being organized by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a Pardee House Seminar on Monday, February 14, 2011, on ‘What is Asia?’ The seminar will feature Prof. David Eckel (BU Religion), Prof. Robert Hefner (BU Anthropology) and Prof. Eugenio Menegon (BU History). The seminar will be moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director, Pardee […]
Pardee Visiting Fellow, Dr. Pablo Suarez, has contributed to the recently launched World Resources Report website – the product of a unique 20-year partnership among the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Resources Institute. Titled “Decision Making In A Changing Climate”, the 2010 report […]
On Monday, January 31, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Global Philanthropy and Development’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Paula D. Johnson, John Hammock and Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, and was moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Pardee Center. Prof. Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha […]
The Future of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting By Matthew Maguire January 2011 (8 pages) Download PDF The number of companies that do some type of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting has risen dramatically in the past 15 years, especially among large international corporations. But the form and content of such reports can vary dramatically among the […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin was in Chiba, Japan to attend the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on Mercury (INC2) will be held in Chiba, Japan from 24 to 28 January, 2011. Prof. Selin was the author of Pardee Paper No. 5 – Managing Hazardous Chemicals: Longer-Range […]
On Friday, January 28 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment convened for the first of the Spring 2011 John Sawyer Seminars on Energy and Society. The session, entitled Energy Policy, featured Paul Sabin and Robert Lifset and was moderated by […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]