Najam Speaks at Environment Conferences at HBS and the Fletcher School
Two weekend conferences on different aspects of global environmental policy, held at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (February 29, 2020) and at the Harvard Business School (March1 , 2020) features Dean Adil Najam of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University as a speaker.
The Tufts Energy Conference on February 28-29 featured a panel on climate governance, where Adil Najam joined other academic and policy leaders to discuss the current state of affairs on global climate governance. Najam was of the view that we need to “stop just being cheerleaders for global negotiations and start demanding an intervention, because things are not just bad, they are catastrophically bad now.” He suggested that we are now already in “the Age of Adaptation,” and this “demands serious and immediate action.”
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On March 1m 2020, the Asia Business Conference 2020 was convened at the Harvard Business School and Dean Adil Najam was asked to speak at and chair a panel on environmental policy in Asia. The panel featured business sector leaders from the retail and the energy sectors. Najam argued that “the world’s environmental future – good or bad – will now be decided in Asia, and especially in China.”
Adil Najam is the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and was the former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He was a co-author for the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); work for which the scientific panel was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing the public understanding of climate change science. In 2008 he was invited by the United Nations Secretary-General to serve on the UN Committee on Development (CDP). Read more about him here.