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Pardee Center Director Speaks on Floods and Disasters at Oberlin College

The Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. Adil Najam, spoke at a special event at Oberlin College on the devastation caused by the recent floods in Pakistan and on its developmental consequences for the country. The event, held on the evening of November 3, 2010, was […]

Adil Najam Publishes Op-Ed on Renewable Energy Governance

Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, published an op-ed on the future of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in The National, Abu Dhabi’s largest English newspaper, on November 1, […]

Pardee Center Director Presents at the United Nations on Rio+20

Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, was invited to present at a special panel event before the Second Committee (on Economics and Finance) of the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly […]

Pardee Researchers Publish Op-Eds on IRENA and Cancún

Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam and Pardee Fellow Dr. Miquel Muñoz published respective op eds on the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Climate Change negotiations in Cancún. Professor Najam’s op ed, titled Renewing the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has been published in the blog Triple Crisis, and can be accessed here. In […]

Oil Spills and Responses Discussed at Special Energy Seminar

The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year was the result of a system of “complacency, collusion and neglect” – the same factors that were responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) in Alaska’s Prince William Sound 21 years ago, according to Boston College Law Professor Zygmunt […]

Pardee Director Writes Op-Ed and Interviewed on BBC

Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, was interviewed on the BBC/PRI radio show The World on the impacts of the recent floods in Pakistan, including the coping strategies of those affected and […]

Special Energy Seminar: Tough Lessons from Oil

Who: Zygmunt Plater, School of Law, Boston College Where: Room STO 453, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University When: Tuesday, October 26, 12:30 PM As a White House staffer once said, “A disaster is a terrible thing to waste.” The BP Deepwater Horizon blowout will be a doubly disastrous calamity if it doesn’t produce systemic changes for […]

Prof. Najam Speaks at SDPI Seminar

Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke – along with Dr. Tariq Banuri, Director of the UN Department of Sustainable Development – at a special seminar at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad, Pakistan, on October 23, 2010. The seminar titled […]

Prof. Adil Najam Speaks on International Environmental Law

Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, Prof. Adil Najam spoke on recent developments in international environmental laws at a seminar organized by the Pakistan Society for the Enhancement of the Rule of Law (SERL) and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in […]