Najam in Newsline on Paris Climate Negotiations
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that Pakistan had squandered its opportunity to be a major player in the UN climate conference taking place in Paris this December.
Najam made his argument in an Oct. 19 article in Newsline magazine, a major publication in Pakistan, entitled “Climate Cop-Out?”
From the text of the article:
“Pakistan will not take much to the table at Paris. We are likely to bring back even less. This is a great loss to Pakistan’s own very pressing climate change challenges. But it is also a loss to Pakistan’s foreign policy because we will, once again, be on the sidelines at a negotiation that the most important powers of the world are now taking very seriously – USA, EU, China – and where we could well have been an actor of consequence.”
You can read the entire article here.
Najam also served as Vice Chancellor (equivalent to president) of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan and as the Director of the Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development. Learn more about him here.