Prof. Henrik Selin, a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a Civic Series talk at Workbar Cambridge on international climate change agreements, specifically the Paris Agreement of 2015. Prof. Selin gave an overview of the history of the international climate regime, and then discussed […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a meeting with groups of scholars from Beijing Normal University and Boston University on April 10. The meeting, which was convened by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Bruce Anderson, was an opportunity to share research on climate change risk at the two universities. Pardee […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave an interview for Radio Ecoshock, a program syndicated over 92 radio stations across the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. The episode explored the question of how and why collapse happens, and featured experts on the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “Conspicuously Absent: Shipping Emissions in Climate Change Policy,” was written by Rebecca Cowing, a 2016 graduate of Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies. The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement relies on state […]
Joshua Duclos, a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a wide-ranging interview for NPR affiliate Wisconsin Public Radio about the morality of hunting. Duclos identified three rationales for hunting — therapeutic, subsistence, and sport […]
Prof. Thomas E. Lovejoy, an innovative and accomplished conservation biologist who coined the term “biological diversity,” delivered the 2017 Pardee Center Distinguished Lecture at the Metcalf Trustee Center on March 28, an event sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Speaking before a crowd of approximately 60 people (in […]
Climate change brings new risks for financial investments, but the impact of climate policies on the financial system has remained unclear so far. Several organizations, including the G20 Financial Stability Board, have called for improving both data and methodologies to better disclose the climate risks faced by public and private investors in financial markets. An […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was quoted in a recent Washington Post story by Chris Mooney about the Trump administration’s approach to climate change policy. The White House’s proposed budget has raised doubts about continued funding for climate science programs spanning 13 government agencies, as well […]
Richard Primack, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, convened a working group meeting for his Pardee Center project known as Leaf Emergence and Fall (LEaF) on March 17. Initiated in the autumn of 2016, the three-year project’s goal is […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a public forum titled “China’s Global Future and the Future of the Globe: How the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is Quietly Changing China and Surrounding Countries” on Monday, April 3, from 5:00-6:30 pm at the BU Photonics Center’s 9th Floor […]