The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar, “Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Migration in Bangladesh,” at the Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, on Wednesday, February 14 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm (lunch will be available beginning at 11:30 am). Faculty Research […]
The Global Development Policy Center, the Institute for Sustainable Energy, and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invite you to a talk by Frank Ackerman about his latest book, Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance. Ackerman, Principal Economist at Synapse Energy and Research Fellow at the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI), will […]
Pardee Center Faculty Associate Prof. Henrik Selin and Pardee School Dean Adil Najam recently received funding to lead a United States Institute for Peace (USIP) research study on perceived links between climate change and security in Pakistan. The project will explore the extent to which climate change is characterized as a national or human security issue by […]
Andrew Trlica, a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment and a 2015 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the first author on a recent paper titled “Albedo, Land Cover, and Daytime Surface Temperature Variation Across an Urbanized Landscape” published in the journal […]
Radost Stanimirova, a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented her research on how climate change and land management are affecting the sustainability of rangelands in South America at the 2017 Fall […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Irene Monasterolo, a Visiting Research Fellow, recently co-authored a paper on climate-related financial disclosure in the journal Climatic Change. The paper, titled “Vulnerable yet relevant: the two dimensions of climate-related financial disclosure,” proposes two novel indices to identify […]
Boston University has become a leader in addressing the challenges of climate change with the Board of Trustees’ vote on December 7, 2017 to formally adopt the ambitious recommendations of the Climate Action Plan Task Force. The Task Force, which is chaired by Prof. Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
Calynn Dowler, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and a 2017 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented a paper at the 46th Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin. Dowler’s paper, titled “Migration and Environment in India’s Sundarbans Islands: Linking Public […]
Prof. Lucy Hutyra, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently featured in an article in BU Today highlighting a tool called Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions System (ACES) that she is developing with Conor Gately, a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Earth & Environment. Unlike global […]
Marta Marello, the BU Climate Action Plan Project Manager, recently spoke at a panel titled “Achieving a Just Transition: Climate Change Mitigation Success Stories from Around the Globe” as part of the side events of COP23, the second United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference of the parties since the Paris Agreement was reached in 2015. Presenters […]