On July 6, the 2017 Graduate Summer Fellows had a lunch discussion with Madhu Dutta-Koehler, an Associate Professor of Practice and the Director of the City Planning and Urban Affairs program, as well as a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Prof. Dutta-Koehler spoke about her unique career […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, wrote an op-ed for The Conversation about the implications of President Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Prof. Janetos explained that the last several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented a paper on sustainable energy transitions in developing countries at a conference in Bonn, Germany. Delina’s paper, titled “Non-state actors’ contributions in meeting mitigation and access challenges in rural Thailand,” explores the global challenges of […]
Richard Primack, a Professor of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently featured in a WGBH story about how the early arrival of spring in New England is an indicator of accelerating climate change. In the article, Prof. Primack explains how […]
Prof. Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, attended the spring meeting of the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) last week in Washington, DC. The Committee aims to bring together a wide range of expertise to advise the USGCRP […]
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 […]
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 […]