Bruce Anderson, a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has published a new paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research in which he details his discovery of a new ocean/atmosphere climate variation in the northern Pacific […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows Prof. Dan Li and Prof. Lucy Hutyra were recently awarded a $650,000 National Science Foundation grant to study land-atmosphere feedbacks over urban areas experiencing heat waves, and the impacts of heat waves on natural systems and human activities in urban areas. The grant was awarded through NSF’s Prediction of and […]
Laurence Delina, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently convened a pair of interdisciplinary workshops on the future of energy systems in developing countries. The first workshop, which was held November 1-2 at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, focused on China’s rapidly expanding investments in energy […]
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the EPA have estimated that food production by itself accounts for nearly a quarter of all greenhouse emissions in the world. What we eat, where it comes from, and how food gets to the table impacts our world in more ways than we may think. Join […]
Henrik Selin, an Associate Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a piece for The Conversation reacting to the Trump administration’s formal notification to the United Nations that the U.S. would withdraw the Paris Agreement on […]
On November 4, the BU Marine Program, the Department of Biology, and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-hosted a special lecture titled “Responses of Coral Reefs to Global Warming,” by Prof. Terry Hughes, Director of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently welcomed Visiting Research Fellow Qinmei Han, a geographer from Beijing Normal University (BNU) who studies the heat-related health impacts of climate change. Qinmei’s 18-month appointment is the result of a memorandum of understanding co-signed by the Pardee Center and the BNU School of […]
On October 22, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted the launch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2019 Trade and Development Report. The event featured Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalization and Development Strategies Division at UNCTAD, who […]
On September 25, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) co-hosted a seminar titled “Rising Temperatures, Rising Costs: The Increasing Global Energy Needs that Come with a Changing Climate,” featuring Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Ian Sue Wing and ISE Associate Director […]
Laurence Delina, a former senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper titled “ICTs for delivering climate-development strategies: an informational governance framework for local climate-development organizations” published in the journal Climate and Development. Around the world, a growing number of “climate-development organizations” (CDOs) — particularly […]