Najam Interviewed on Climate Change After COVID-19
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, appeared on DW News to discuss climate change and how to address it after the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the world struggled to address the pandemic, climate change has taken a back seat. In remarks, Najam discussed how to tackle climate change in a post-pandemic world. He argued that there is no human health without ecological health and that, much like the pandemic, humanity must adapt to a new way of living in order to combat the worst effects of climate change. While this is not an attractive prospect following a year of isolation and quarantine, Najam said that we as a species value our quality of life and must recognize that improving it does not simply mean returning to life as it was before the pandemic.
Najam’s full appearance can be viewed on DW‘s website.
Adil Najam is a global public policy expert who also served as the Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He 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). His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development. Read more about Dean Najam on his faculty profile.