Najam Delivers Talk on International Climate Negotiations for MGA Network
On October 11, 2021, Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, delivered a lecture for the Mutual Gains Approach (MGA) Network in the Netherlands on international climate negotiations in the context of the upcoming 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).
During the event, titled “The challenges in climate negotiations,” Najam drew from his own experience to address what works and doesn’t work in international negotiations. He argued that despite the enhanced global attention, climate talks have become a ritual in “talk and talk” and very little action, especially by the major industrialized countries. He went on to state that too many developing countries are beginning to lose trust in the entire process or even in the sincerity of environmentalists in the Global North who have so localized the climate issue. According to him, those in the Global North are all but ignoring the pressing challenges of global environmental justice, both in the governmental negotiations and in the activist slogans.
Adil Najam is a global public policy expert who also served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He is the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and was the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). 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. Read more about Dean Najam on his faculty profile.