Tag: Mitigation

Delina Gives Lecture on Rapid Climate Mitigation at RISD

Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a lecture titled “Wartime Mobilisation and Rapid Climate Change” hosted by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies program. The lecture was based in large part on Delina’s first book, Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation (Routledge […]

Upcoming Seminar: Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation

Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will discuss his recent book, Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation, at a seminar on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at the Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road (Lunch will be available beginning at […]

Elisabetta Genovese Joins Pardee Center as Visiting Scholar

Elisabetta Genovese has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on a three-week appointment as a Visiting Scholar. Elisabetta is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth (IRCrES) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), where she is currently working on the project “Economics of Natural […]

French Ambassador Gives Inside Account of Paris Climate Deal

France’s Special Representative to the Paris climate change talks last December spoke publicly for the first time on Feb. 8 at Boston University about what it took to orchestrate both the two-week long climate change negotiation session and the agreement that came out of it. Ambassador Laurence Tubiana was the featured speaker at the event […]

Irene Monasterolo’s Research Presented at COP21 Event on Finance and Climate

Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, had her research presented at a recent conference titled “Climate Change: The Finance Sector and Pathways to 2°C” at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks in Paris. The event, sponsored by the 2° Investing Initiative, the Oxford […]

Pardee Director Speaks at Trustees Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Event

Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, participated in a forum on climate change mitigation and adaptation on December 1. Prof. Janetos — along with Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and Madhu Dutta-Koehler, a professor of city planning and urban affairs — gave a […]

Pardee Director Delivers Board of Trustees Lecture on Climate Change Impacts

Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a lecture at the third installment of a Boston University Board of Trustees forum series on fossil fuel divestment on April 28. Drawing on the findings from the U.S. National Climate Assessment, Prof. Janetos discussed the impacts of climate change on the […]

Pathways to Emissions Reduction in China and India: Politics, Policy, and Administration

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Center for the Study of Asia co-sponsored a seminar titled “Pathways to Emissions Reduction in China and India: Politics, Policy, and Administration” on April 16 at the Pardee Center.  Bruce Gilley, Associate Professor of Political Science at Portland State University, spoke about the greenhouse gas […]