Adil Najam
Adil Najam (* in Pakistan ) is an American environmental researcher and expert in the field of climate change . He played an important role in the progress reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 .
Life
Najam is of Pakistani origin.
Najam is Professor of Global Public Policy, International Relations, Geography and Environment and Director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University . In 2008, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon brought him to the United Nations Committee on Development Policy.
Najam is one of the lead authors of the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports of the IPCC (2001 and 2007 respectively). He is a popular commentator on the subject of climate change, for example on the UN climate conference in Copenhagen (2009).
Awards
In 2007, the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Prize together with former US Vice President Al Gore . The reason for this is: “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. In 2009, Najam received one of Pakistan's highest awards, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz Medal (Star of Excellence).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c "After the Copenhagen Climate Summit. What is to be done? «With Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Adil Najam, Professor of Global Public Policy, Boston University. ( Memento from April 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/
- ↑ a b c http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5115717,00.html
- ↑ Curriculum Vitæ (PDF; 741 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Najam, Adil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American environmental researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pakistan |