Najam in Newsline Magazine on COP23 and Pakistan
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for an article on the recently concluded COP23, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, as well as Pakistan’s performance at the conference.
Najam was quoted in a January 22, 2018 article in Newsline Magazine entitled “Coping with COP.“
From the text of the article:
Dr. Adil Najam, Dean of Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and former vice-chancellor of LUMS, was the lead author of the third and fourth assessment reports of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He says Pakistan’s performance was “unremarkable. Same people. Same talking points. Impact – none. To be honest, I don’t think Pakistan went to COP23 looking for anything. And it certainly did not get anything, because the key to a successful COP negotiation is what you do all-year round at home. Pakistan is simply not considered to be a player in the climate game. Sad, because we used to be considered important players. There was, however, one good thing I noticed this year. A group of (mostly young) parliamentarians was part of the delegation. That, I think, is excellent. I am confident that engaging parliamentarians and building a political constituency is the right approach. The bureaucratic approach and the NGO-led technocratic approach has just not worked!”
Adil Najam is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and was a former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore Pakistan. Learn more about him here.