Najam Comments on Commitments to COP27 Loss and Damage Fund
Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations and Earth and Environment at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was interviewed by the Australian Associated Press (AAP) FactCheck in which he clarifies claims surrounding the recently agreed upon “loss and damage” climate fund at COP27.
The article, titled “$2 trillion climate fund claim a red hot lie,” explores a false claim that Australia has agreed to contribute $2 trillion per year to climate change. The claim is in reference to the United Nations-backed “loss and damage” fund from COP27. Najam argued that the idea that the fund would reach $2 trillion per year, even across all contributing nations, was “practically an impossibility,” especially because the amount committed and pledged to the fund is still zero dollars.
The full article can be read on AAP’s website.
Adil Najam is a global public policy expert who served as 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 Professor Najam on his faculty profile.