The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently launched “How We Respond: Communities and Scientists Taking Action on Climate Change,” which brings together stories highlighting the ways that 18 communities across the U.S. are responding to climate change. Pardee Center Director Prof. Anthony Janetos, who passed away last month, served for a year and a […]
The Global Development Policy Center, the Institute for Sustainable Energy, and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently co-sponsored a seminar titled Tackling Climate Change: The Case for Carbon Dividends” featuring University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor of Economics James K. Boyce. Prof. Boyce discussed his new book, The Case […]
Richard Samuel Deese, a Senior Lecturer in the College of General Studies and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, gave a keynote talk at the Center for United Nations Constitutional Research (CUNCR) Climate Democracy & Justice Summit on June 22. In a wide-ranging talk, […]
Laurence Delina, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a 139-page commissioned white paper on China-Philippine cooperation on climate change action, of which Oxfam has published a 15-page summary. In the white paper, Delina makes the case for cooperation between government agencies and civil […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-chaired the International Council for Exploration of the Seas Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (ICES WGHIST) annual meeting at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom last week. The ICES WGHIST […]
A new paper published today in Nature Communications by researchers from Boston University, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice found that by mid-century climate change will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming. Most previous studies explored this topic for a single country […]
Irene Monasterolo, a Visiting Research Fellow and a former post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Ecological Economics with Andrea Roventini and Tim Foxon. The special issue, titled “Understanding uncertainty of climate policies and implications for economics and finance: an […]
Jim Stodder, a Visiting Professor in BU’s Metropolitan College and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented his research on carbon tax forecasts at the 42nd International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Annual Conference in Montréal, Canada. At the conference, Stodder presented a paper titled “Carbon […]
The Global Development Policy Center and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently co-hosted a seminar titled “A Climate Risk Assessment of Sovereign Bonds’ Portfolio,” featuring Irene Monasterolo of Vienna University of Economics and Business. Monasterolo, a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate from 2015-2017, is a development economist with experience in policy […]
Prof. Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth & Environment, was featured on WGBH’s Greater Boston where he discussed a recently released United Nations assessment report on the global state of biodiversity. The report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy […]