{"id":15240,"date":"2015-01-22T23:14:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T04:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=15240"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:15:17","slug":"najam-in-wef-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/01\/22\/najam-in-wef-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Najam in WEF on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/outlook-global-agenda-2015\/top-10-trends-of-2015\/7-increasing-occurrence-of-severe-weather-events\/?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=prbuexperts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/01\/underwaterhouses-515x300.jpg\" alt=\"underwaterhouses\" width=\"515\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15251 aligncenter\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam,<\/a>\u00a0Dean of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, <\/a>said that investing in development before natural disasters is the best way to cope with the challenges of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Najam made his remarks in a report for the <a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/\">World Economic Forum<\/a> titled <a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/outlook-global-agenda-2015\/top-10-trends-of-2015\/7-increasing-occurrence-of-severe-weather-events\/?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=prbuexperts\">&#8220;Outlook Global Agenda 2015.&#8221;<\/a> Najam is a member of the Global Agenda Council on Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p>Said Najam in his remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The solution is to strengthen resilience before disaster strikes. That means investing in developments that work in the future, not just in the short-term. Costs can be high and speed of change can be slow, but long-term payoffs are impressive: for national economies, for business, and certainly for the poorest and most vulnerable populations who will suffer and pay if we fail to take these measures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/outlook-global-agenda-2015\/top-10-trends-of-2015\/7-increasing-occurrence-of-severe-weather-events\/?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=prbuexperts\">the entire report here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardee School Dean Adil Najam said that investing in development before natural disasters is the best way to cope with the challenges of climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[8802,1720,509,8494,8470,8622],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15358,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15240\/revisions\/15358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}