{"id":32212,"date":"2018-03-01T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=32212"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:41:56","slug":"najam-in-bloomberg-on-corporate-america-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/03\/01\/najam-in-bloomberg-on-corporate-america-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Najam in Bloomberg<\/i> on Corporate America and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dean<\/a><\/p>\n

Adil Najam<\/a>, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0was interviewed for a recent article examining how United States corporations have been taking action on controversial social and political issues such as gun control and climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Najam was interviewed for a March 1, 2018 article in Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> entitled “Corporate America Is Taking On Guns and Climate\u2014Issues the Government Won\u2019t.<\/a>“<\/span><\/p>\n

From the text of the article:<\/p>\n

That effectively outsources the political process, said Adil Najam, dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, with a perverse effect on national policy and the fundamentals of democracy: \u201cWhen a company makes the decision, those first three words of the Constitution, \u2018We the People,\u2019 are replaced by \u2018We the Customer.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Adil Najam is the Inaugural Dean of the Pardee School. Earlier, he served as\u00a0Vice Chancellor (equivalent to president) of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan. He\u00a0was a co-author for the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)\u00a0and serves\u00a0on the UN Committee on Development (CDP).\u00a0<\/span>Learn more about him here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dean Adil Najam discusses how U.S. corporations have been taking action on controversial social and political issues such as climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[10745,1720,8857,509,10676,10677,8859,9527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32212"}],"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\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32218,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32212\/revisions\/32218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}