Prof. Najam Interviewed on Prospects for Copenhagen Climate Talks

Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston Univeirsty was interviewed by the knowledge.allianz.com website, a knowledge portal established by the Allianz Group.

Speaking about the prospects for the conference, Prof. Najam pointed out that, “I think Copenhagen will be an important milestone, but it is not a destination. All of us need to understand climate change is a long-term game, not a sprint. Copenhagen is not the end. Copenhagen is just one pit stop in a longer race.”

In terms of solutions and hopes for the Copenhagen meeting, Prof. Najam said: “What I wish to happen is that we will turn climate change into a development issue. As long as we make it only a carbon issue there is no solution to this. We really need to put it at the center of our economic, social, and development planning. And that would mean not doing it as a climate treaty or a carbon treaty, but really as a development treaty.”