Category: News

Task Force Author Featured on The Green Economy Post

David Levy, one of the contributors for the Pardee Center Task Force Report on Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a Green Economy, was featured on The Green Economy Post on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011. An edited version of his chapter contribution for the task force report is featured on the web site. David Levy is the Chair of […]

Prof. Adil Najam Publishes Paper on Climate Change and Corruption

The 2011 Global Corruption Report of Transparency International focuses on the issue of climate change and explores the corruption risks related to tackling climate change. The report brings together over 50 experts from across the world, including Prof. Adil Najam – Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future […]

Pardee Symposium Broadcasted on DRadio Wissen

Transatlantic Perceptions of Climate Change: The Role of Arts and Media, a Pardee Center symposium organized in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Boston and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), was aired on German radio station, DRadio Wissen on Monday, May 9, 2011. The broadcast was split into two parts, to listen to […]

Pardee Center Director in the Media on Osama Bin Laden Death

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, Prof. Adil Najam, has been in the media over the last many days as a commentator on the successful US operation to kill Al-Qaeda leader and 9/11 architect Osama Bin […]

Henrik Selin Writes on Triple Crisis Blog

Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin contributed a guest post titled “Principles for a Green Economy” to the Triple Crisis Blog. In the blog post, Selin wrote about the green economy task force that he convened at the Pardee Center together with the Center’s Director, Adil Najam, and the report “Beyond Rio + 20: Governance for […]

Prof. Najam Speaks on Global Governance Reform at CIGI (Includes Video)

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 of Geography and Environment was one of the participants and speakers at the high-level meeting of experts, political leaders and diplomats on “The New Geometry of Global Summitry: The Future […]

Henrik Selin Attends Fifth Meeting of Stockholm Convention in Geneva

Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin attended the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention held from April 27-29 in Geneva, Switzerland. Selin attended the meeting as part of his research on the global management of hazardous chemicals, which includes the Pardee Paper Managing Hazardous Chemicals: Longer-Range Challenges and his […]

Final Sawyer Seminar Discusses Geographies of Energy

On Friday, April 22, the John Sawyer Seminar on Energy Transitions and Society convened for its eighth and last meeting. The session entitled Geographies of Energy featured Peter O’Connor and Rania Ghosn, and was moderated by Cutler Cleveland, Professor of Geography and Environment at Boston University. Peter A. O’Connor is a doctoral candidate in the […]

Kevin Gallagher Co-authors Op-Ed in Project Syndicate

Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher co-authored an op-ed in Project Syndicate (syndicate column for hundreds of newspapers across the world) with former Colombia Minister of Finance Jose Antonio Ocampo and Director of Financial Markets Program at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue Stephany Griffith-Jones. The three authors will co-chair a Pardee Task Force workshop and […]

Pardee House Seminar Discusses “Diplomacy for the Facebook Era”

“Diplomacy for the Facebook Era” was the topic of discussion at a seminar sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 20.  The seminar was organized and moderated on behalf of the Pardee Center by Amb. Paul Webster Hare, former British ambassador to Cuba who currently teaches […]