Najam Quoted on MA Least Developed Countries Fund Bill
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was quoted in a NetZero Insider article on the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Fund bill, a Massachusetts state legislation that would allow taxpayers to donate their state tax returns to the LDC Fund.
The bill – recently re-introduced by state Reps. Antonio Cabral (D) and Tram Nguyen (D) – establishes the Massachusetts Fund for Vulnerable Countries Most Affected by Climate Change, a voluntary tax-return contribution option that would be incorporated into the United Nations LDC Fund. As the article notes, the LDCs are the poorest in the world and the least responsible for contributing to the climate crisis; however, they are suffering the effects of climate change most of all.
Najam noted that the LDC Fund bill, and addressing global climate change in general, is a matter of “moral responsibility, not foreign aid.”
An excerpt:
The bill is not addressing the question of who is at fault, Najam said. Instead, he added, it addresses shared responsibility.
Donating state income tax returns to the fund is ‘something easy to do, but very meaningful,’ Najam said.
The article can be read on NetZero Insider‘s website.
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.