Global Climate Justice in the Age of Adaptation
Speaker: ADIL NAJAM, Dean Emeritus and Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
4:00pm to 5:30pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom

ABOUT THE TOPIC

Because the world has been unwilling and unable to respond to the threat of global climate change in time with appropriate measures of mitigation, we are now condemned to live in the “Age of Adaptation.” Adaptation, after all, is essentially the failure of mitigation. This does not mean that the need to mitigate has gone away – the less we mitigate today, the more we will have to adapt to the impacts of climate change tomorrow. This does, however, mean that dealing with the impacts and consequences of climate change is no longer a ‘future’ challenge. It is a pressing and immediate challenge – most so in high vulnerability countries which are economically impoverished and climatically imperiled.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Adil Najam (عادل نجم) is inaugural Dean Emeritus at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Professor of International Relations and of Earth and Environment. He served as the founding Dean of the Pardee School (2014-2022), and was awarded Dean Emeritus status by Boston University in 2022, while continuing as Professor at the Pardee School.

Since July 2023 he also serves as the President of WWF International, one of the world’s oldest, largest and most respected environment and conservation organizations.

ZOOM LINK DETAILS

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://middlebury.zoom.us/j/95975032684?pwd=lO548Q6FjJZfngyIe5nOgJvQsysaSm.1
Password: PlanetHope
Meeting ID: 959 7503 2684

QUESTIONS

Contact Rachel Christopherson at the Center for the Blue Economy at cbe@miis.edu or (831) 647-4183.

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