Najam in Newsline Magazine on Pakistan’s Climate Change Policy
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the impression Pakistan is making on the global stage in terms of climate change following the recent COP 22 held in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Najam was interviewed for a December 13, 2016 article in Newsline Magazine entitled “Paris and After.”
From the text of the article:
Not everyone is convinced by Pakistan’s presentation, despite the document claiming that the INDCs submitted feed into Vision 2025 prepared by the Planning Commission of Pakistan. Dr. Adil Najam, former dean of LUMS, Dean, The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Professor of Earth & Environment, Boston University and co-author of the Climate Change Report that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, is skeptical about the impression Pakistan is making on the global stage. He says, “Pakistan’s new INDC is better worded, but substantively it is quite uninspiring. The key issue for Pakistan is climate financing. Unfortunately, unless and until the government of Pakistan takes real steps to demonstrate that it takes climate change seriously, the global climate policy institutions are unlikely to take Pakistan seriously.”
You can read the entire article here.
Adil Najam is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and was a former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore Pakistan. He had started his career as a newspaper reporter in his native Pakistan, including covering the 1988 election campaign of Benazir Bhutto that ended with her becoming Pakistan’s first female Prime Minister. Part of his research has focussed on Muslim and Pakistani diaspora in the United States. He is the author of Pakistanis in America: Portrait of a Giving Community (Harvard University Press, 2006) and co-editor of How Immigrants Impact their Homelands (Duke University Press, 2013). Learn more about him here.