Adil Najam on a ‘Planet on Fire’
Professor Najam interviewed with other leading climate change experts on how the sizzling summer of 2023 all around the world.
Najam Awarded Hilal-i-Imtiaz and Development Leadership Award
Adil Najam conferred the Hilal-i-Pakistan, Pakistan’s second-highest civil award, by the President of Pakistan for contributions to education and environment. Also awarded the ‘Development Leadership Award’ to mark the country’s 75 years.
Adil Najam Featured in State Department Blog
Dr. Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations and of Earth and Environment at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston Univeristy was interviewed by the U.S. Department of State’s ExchangeAlumni blog for a feature profile post on his work on climate change and his recent appointment as the incoming President of…
Najam in ‘Nature’ on Titan submersible tragedy
Adil Najam is quoted in a Nature report on Titan submersible implosion tragedy and the science philanthropy background of two of the deceased.
Najam named De Jánosi Visiting Fellow at IIASA
Adil Najam has been named as the Peter De Jánosi Visiting Fellow for 2023 at the Austria-based International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He becomes the first to hold the new visiting fellowship created by Friends of IIASA (FoI).
Najam Interviewed by BBC on Future of GDP
Najam talks on BBC on why GDP is a flawed measure of development but is unlikely to be dethroned.
Najam Presents Seminar on Climate and Security at Uppsala
Dean Emeritus Adil Najam argues that climate change is no longer a future threat. It is a real and present danger today.
Najam in Foreign Policy on Pakistan’s Constitutional Crisis
An analysis of Pakistan’s ongoing constitutional crisis, titled “The Many Trials of Imran Khan” by Betsy Joles published in Foreign Policy magazine on April 5, 2023, quotes Pardee School Professor and Dean Emeritus Adil Najam as suggesting that what we are now seeing in Pakistan is an implosion of all the major political institutions in…
Adil Najam named as new President of WWF International
Dr. Adil Najam, the inaugural dean (2014-2022) of Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies and now Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations and Earth and the Environment has been named as the new President of WWF-International, one of the largest and most respected environment and conservation organizations in the world. WWF, recognized globally…
Najam Speaks at Brussels Launch of Collaborative Governance Book
Dean Emeritus and Professor Adil Najam joined a panel of international experts in Brussels at the Delegation of the Basque Country to the European Union on March 28, 2023, for the launch of the book Building Collaborative Governance in Times of Uncertainty, in which he has written a chapter on “Collaborative Governance as Jazz.” Edited…
Najam Profiled in Austria’s Südwind-Magazin on ‘Age of Adaptation’
Dean Emeritus Adil Najam is interviewed and profiled in Südwind-Magazin, Austria’s leading development magazine.
Najam in NYT on Political Chaos in Pakistan
Dean Emeritus Adil Najam is interviewed by New York Times on the unending political chaos in Pakistan.
Najam Speaks at Royal Society on Science in Muslim Societies
Professor Najam challenges environmentalists to engage with religion and faith because these will invariably be the front line of people’s coping strategies when they are confronted with ever-more-frequent climate calamities.
Najam Delivers Oxford Lecture on Climate Change, Islam, and Muslim Societies
Based on the new research Najam has been conducting at Oxford as the Mahatir Mohamad Visiting Fellow, the talk reviewed what the role of religion in general and Islam, in particular, would be in Muslim societies in the “Age of Adaptation” where climate impacts have become a reality.
Najam Keynotes on Law, Justice, and Climate Change in Bhutan
Professor Najam outlined the nature of the global climate change challenge, particularly for developing countries and especially in what he describes as the “Age of Adaptation,” and reflected on the role of law and philanthropy in addressing global climate change, particularly in national and local implications and impacts.
Najam Leads Seminar on Religion and Environment
Professor Najam suggested that the view that “if we only get the science right, the right values will themselves emerge” has proven to be insufficient and it is time to move from a science-faith divide to a common strategy for confronting one of the great moral crises of our times: climate change.
Najam Comments on Legacy of Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf
“The military in Pakistan has gone through a major change in the past two decades…It has gone from being an institution that most people respected, or kept quiet about, to one that is now very publicly under attack — and that shift started with Pervez Musharraf.”
Najam Speaks at Launch of AIIB Report on NetZero
Professor Najam suggests that until countries do not begin “owning” the climate change problem – not because they have caused it, but because they will invariably suffer its consequences – we will not see meaningful action on climate change in developing countries.
Najam Interviewed on IMF Inefficiencies
Professor Najam suggests that given the IMF’s central mission of maintaining and enhancing global monetary and financial stability, the fact that between 20 to 30 countries are on the verge of sovereign default today is an indictment of the IMF’s own competence, even if the primary fault lies with the countries themselves.
Najam Featured in “Context” Report on Climate Loss and Damage
“By raising money from bad actions so that we raise the cost of doing bad things, we [can] use that money to be able to do good things for those who are being treated unfairly by climate change.”