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<\/a><\/p>\nAdil Najam,<\/a> Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a> said that there is a way to determine whether the results of the ongoing 2015 UN Climate Change Conference\u00a0(COP21)\u00a0will make a positive difference.<\/p>\n Najam, who attended the opening of the Paris negotiations<\/a>, made the argument in a Dec. 7 Op-Ed in\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0<\/em>entitled “10 Tests to Find Out if\u00a0Paris’ Climate Deal is a Success.”<\/a><\/p>\n From the text of the Op-Ed:<\/p>\n Ministers are back in Paris for the final stretch of COP 21<\/a> negotiations. A draft is in hand, peppered with the brackets that indicate areas of disagreement. France\u2019s foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, is busy constructing coalitions. The process of paring down the brackets has begun in earnest.<\/p>\n It is not clear what the agreement will be, but it is clear that there will be an agreement. That means Paris can be declared a success.<\/p>\n Of course, Paris was condemned to succeed. The ignominy that was Copenhagen (COP15, 2009<\/a>) was never to be its destiny. That meant getting to an agreement \u2013 any agreement. Now that such an agreement is in sight<\/a>, there is a palpable sigh of relief.<\/p>\n Now is a good time to ask just how meaningful (or not) any given Paris agreement will be. Here are 10 questions I will be using as a yardstick. They will be my guide to exactly what we are celebrating, and how much we should celebrate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can read the entire article here.<\/a><\/p>\n Najam also wrote about the climate conference in the Pakistan media outlet\u00a0The News\u00a0<\/em>on Dec. 9. You can read the entire article here.<\/a><\/p>\n Najam<\/a> 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). Learn more about him here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dean Adil Najam said that there is a way to determine whether the results of COP21 will make a positive difference in the climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[8802,9140,1720,2098,9053,9116,8859,8470,8449],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177"}],"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=20177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20320,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177\/revisions\/20320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}