{"id":37970,"date":"2019-05-15T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=37970"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:20:37","slug":"najam-speaks-on-developing-countries-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/05\/15\/najam-speaks-on-developing-countries-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Najam Speaks on Developing Countries and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/05\/Najam2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/05\/Najam2-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/05\/Najam2-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/05\/Najam2-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/05\/Najam2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a><span>, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0spoke in Karachi at the Pakistan Institute for International Affairs (PIIA) on May 4, 2019 and in Islamabad at the Institute for Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) on May 8, 2019 on how the global politics of climate change is changing and the implications of these changes for developing countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In his talks, Najam highlighted that we are now in the Age of Adaptation where climate can no longer be talked about in the future tense and for millions of people it is already a lived reality. He argued that the realization that industrialized countries are not likely to meet their climate obligations presents a very different and more grave set of strategic challenges to developing countries.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBecause the world has been unwilling and unable to respond to the great threat of global climate change in time with appropriate measures of mitigation, we are now condemned to live in what I call the \u2018Age of Adaptation\u2019,\u201d Najam said speaking at PIIA in Karachi. \u201cAdaptation after all, is essential. Ignoring the impacts of climate change is no longer a luxury that any country can afford, least of all, Pakistan.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cClimate change is not going to happen it is ALREADY happening\u201d-Dr. Adil Najam, Dean Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PIIA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PIIA<\/a> on Pakistan in the Age of Adaptation during the Conference on Climate Change in Karachi. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pakistanhorizon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pakistanhorizon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdilNajam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AdilNajam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QUuVikVETm\">pic.twitter.com\/QUuVikVETm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (@PIIA1948) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PIIA1948\/status\/1124682213017247750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at ISSI in Islamabad, Najam said that we\u00a0<span>have passed the age of mitigation and have landed in the age of adaptation. Countries which are emitting the most of carbon waste are those which are least affected by the effects of climate change, according to Najam \u2013 almost 80 per cent of the wealth of the world lies with the 20 per cent of the world\u2019s population. He highlighted that Pakistan is in its 10th consecutive year of flood and 4th consecutive year of drought.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWater is to adaption what carbon is to mitigation,&#8221;\u00a0Najam said speaking at ISSI in Islamabad. &#8220;The frontline issues are mostly about water and for a country like Pakistan, which depends solely on water, climate is not a future issue but a current issue.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Look forward to speaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ISSIslamabad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ISSIslamabad<\/a> tomorrow on what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClimateChange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ClimateChange<\/a> might mean for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pakistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pakistan<\/a>. And what Pakistan\u2019s policy response should be in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AgeOAdaptation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AgeOAdaptation<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c18O8MuGMT\">pic.twitter.com\/c18O8MuGMT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adil Najam \u0639\u0627\u062f\u0644 \u0646\u062c\u0645 (@AdilNajam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdilNajam\/status\/1125671407394938881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a><span>\u00a0is the inaugural Dean of the Pardee School and a commentator on foreign policy and diplomacy.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Learn more about him here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Adil Najam spoke at PIIA in Karachi and ISSI in Islamabad on the implications of climate change on developing countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414],"tags":[11087,1720,509,11264,1697,11263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37970"}],"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=37970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37976,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37970\/revisions\/37976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}