Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, gave a lecture at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Wednesday, May 6th. The talk, which was titled, “Observations at the Interface of Environmental Science and Policy,” focused primarily on how scientific assessment processes have become an important mode of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows. These nine outstanding Boston University graduate students represent various schools and departments from across the university, including Earth & Environment, Political Science, Public Health, Biology, Sociology, and Mathematics & Statistics. Starting June 1st, […]
Today the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released a web-based prototype of climate indicators to track nationally-relevant climate change and the impacts of it over time. Prof. Anthony Janetos, Director of Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Melissa Kenney, University of Maryland research assistant professor, guided the development […]
Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a lecture at the third installment of a Boston University Board of Trustees forum series on fossil fuel divestment on April 28. Drawing on the findings from the U.S. National Climate Assessment, Prof. Janetos discussed the impacts of climate change on the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Center for the Study of Asia co-sponsored a seminar titled “Pathways to Emissions Reduction in China and India: Politics, Policy, and Administration” on April 16 at the Pardee Center. Bruce Gilley, Associate Professor of Political Science at Portland State University, spoke about the greenhouse gas […]
Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, gave a public lecture titled “Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise, and Water Issues in the Northeast” on April 16 in Hudson, MA. The lecture was a review of climate impacts and responses to climate change, with an emphasis on the experience […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted Prakash Javadekar, India’s Minister of State for Environment, Forests & Climate Change, on April 15th. Mr. Javadekar participated in an informal conversation with a diverse group of faculty and experts from a range of academic disciplines across the University, including the Earth […]
China and India Comparative Seminar Series Thursday, April 16, 2015 from 4:00-6:00 pm at the Pardee Center Seminar Room, 67 Bay State Road China and India will largely determine the future of the global climate. How are they doing in emissions reduction? How can they do better? Prof. Bruce Gilley explains and contrasts China’s “state-signaling” and […]
2014 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow Sarah Ann Hill was an invited speaker on a panel and also presented a poster at a recent conference called “Just Food?” held at the Harvard Law School. The conference, on March 28-29, explored the intersections between social, economic and environmental justice and the food system. Sarah spoke during […]
Marta Marello, Project Manager of The Enhancing Energy Efficiency for Urban Housing research project for the The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is featured in a news article and a similar feature in the 2014 annual report from Wells Fargo. The article, titled “Boston community teams up to improve energy efficiency […]