Dr. Miquel Munoz, Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Fellow, participated in the elaboration of the Renewables Global Status Report 2009, published by the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), and released in Paris on May 13. Dr. Munoz has participated in the elaboration of all four editions of the Global Status Report since its […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a special seminar on “Food and Sustainable Development” as an official side-event at the 17th Meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UN CSD) at the UN heaquarters in New York. The event, and the larger project on Food and […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellows — Prof. Henrik Selin, Prof. Jim McCann and Prof. Adil Najam — were all involved in an all day conference on "The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspective" organized by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University. The day and half conference brought together experts and practitioners from across the globe, […]
The Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, Dr. Adil Najam, Pardee Center Faculty Fellow, Prof. Cutler Cleveland, and Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Miquel Munoz, were three amongst a small group of leading experts and practitioners on sustainable development invited to the ‘Conclave of Thought Leaders […]
The Pardee Center was represented by Prof. Adil Najam at a meeting on new approaches to Global Governance, held at the Paris headquarters of OECD on April 29-30, 2009. The meeting was co-organized by the Center for Global Studies (CGS) at University of Victoria, the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) at University of Waterloo […]
The next Pardee Center Seminar will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday, May 11, 2009 where three new Pardee Center papers will also be launched. These seminars and the accompanying Pardee Center policy briefs are part of a project on ‘Food and Development’ supported by the Netherlands Ministry of […]
Experts from Canada, Mexico, and the United States convened at the Pardee Center on March 20 to discuss The Future of NAFTA. NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) was designed to be permanent, but the election of US President Barack Obama, who pledged to assess the impacts of NAFTA, has galvanized thinking about what the […]
Economist Frank Ackerman of Tufts University discussed his recent book Can We Afford the Future? The Economics of a Warming World at a lunch seminar at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 28. Approximately 35 people attended the talk, which was moderated by Prof. Kevin Gallagher, an […]
A new paper titled Managing Hazardous Chemicals: Longer-Range Challenges was recently published by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The fifth paper in The Pardee Papers series, it was written by Pardee Research Fellow Henrik Selin, Assistant Professor in Boston University’s Department of International Relations. In this paper, Selin […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was the commencement speaker at the 2009 commencement exercise of the Boston University Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program. The program is also celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and attracted a large number of BU Humphrey […]