Najam Interviewed on Environmental Politics in Pakistan
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article on the plan of Pakistan’s newly elected government to plant billions of trees to tackle the effects of climate change.
Najam was interviewed for an August 8, 2018 article by the Thomson Reuters Foundation entitled “Green, Green Hills: Pakistan’s Incoming Government Pledges to Plant Billions of Trees.”
From the text of the article:
Pakistani climate expert Adil Najam, who is dean of Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, said the PTI had made the environment – “especially planting trees” – its issue.
“And (it has) demonstrated that you can get political mileage from environmental issues,” he said, describing that as a major step forward.
“This also comes at a time when the public awareness of these issues – especially water and climate concerns – are on the rise. So, there is certainly the potential of momentum.”
He said the key test would be keeping the political focus on the policy, and ensuring action.
Adil Najam is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and a professor of international relations and also of earth and environment at Boston University. He was a co-author for the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); work for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for advancing the public understanding of climate change science.