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 […]
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 […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented papers at two conferences held in Sydney, Australia, and Bergen, Norway. The first paper, titled “Climate mobilisation from below: deliberative exercises for scaling micro-level climate actions,” explores the strengths and limitations of specific local climate actions […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper in the journal International Environmental Agreements. In the paper, Delina explores how and why the role of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in climate finance is increasing by analyzing energy projects supported by the Asian Development Bank […]
John Patrick Connors, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper titled “Identifying attributes of food system sustainability: emerging themes and consensus” published in the journal Agriculture and Human Values. In the paper, the authors identify five attributes of food system sustainability – diversity, […]
Post-doctoral associate John Patrick Connors and Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently attended the 2016 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. Connors presented their paper titled “Assessing the Impacts of Multiple Breadbasket […]
Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will be co-hosting and participating in a side event at the UN climate change conference in Marrakech. The event, titled “Disentangling the Climate-Finance Nexus: Methods for 2°C alignment and climate stress-tests for institutional investors and development banks,” […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a seminar titled “Conservation in Urban and Suburban Landscapes: What Does Nature Mean?” on Thursday, October 20, 2016. The seminar, which was moderated by Pardee Center post-doctoral associate John Patrick Connors, featured a discussion with David Stainbrook, a Deer/Moose biologist at the Massachusetts Division of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar, “Conservation in Urban and Suburban Landscapes: What Does Nature Mean?” The seminar will be held at the Pardee Center at 67 Bay State Road on Thursday October 20, 2016 from 12:30 – 2:00 pm (lunch will be […]
Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, presented a paper at the 1.5 Degrees Conference organized by the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Monasterolo’s paper, titled “When the elephant meets the mouse: modeling the impact of fossil fuels and renewable energy subsidies on […]