BU and Pardee Center Contingent to Attend Copenhagen

A number of Boston University scholars and researchers will be in Copenhagen over the next two weeks to attend global climate change negotiations that are already being described as “historic.”

The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was recently designated as an official observer organization for these negotiations – officially, the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Pardee Center, and Dr. Miquel Munoz Cabre, a post-doctoral Fellow at the Pardee Center, are both veterans of prior global negotiations and will be in Copenhagen for the climate talks, as will be Pardee Center Visiting Fellow Dr. Pablo Suarez. Prof. Paul McManus and Prof. Nalin Kulatilka, both of the BU School of Management, will also be attending; as will a number of Boston University students.

In the run-up to the Copenhagen conference, the Pardee Center co-sponsored a panel discussion on the prospects for Copenhagen and its future implications, a Pardee House Seminar on the future of renewable energy, and a forthcoming Pardee House Seminar on development and coastal conservation in the face of global climate change.

Pardee Center affiliates have been quoted in leading newspapers in the run-up to the conference (here, here and here).