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Laurence Delina Authors Two New Papers on Southeast Asia Climate Policy Laurence Delina, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored two new papers on climate change and sustainable development policy in Southeast Asia. In the first paper, published in the journal Climatic Change, he explores the potential for future geoengineering research in Southeast Asia. Recounting the discussions among a group of social scientists, climate modelers, and environmental policy experts at a workshop in Indonesia, Delina makes the ...

Pardee Center Co-Hosts Webinar on the Future of Sustainable Development On December 14, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) co-hosted a webinar titled “The Future of Sustainable Development in The World After Coronavirus.” The webinar, which served as the Plenary Dialogue of SDPI’s 23rd Sustainable Development Conference, built on one of the major themes from the Pardee Center’s The World After Coronavirus (#WorldAfterCorona) video series. Bringing together four of Pardee School Dean Adil N...

“I’m actually excited! I’m glad to get the vaccine," she said, "I wanted to get it because I wanted to be able to tell my patients that I did get the vaccine.” Dr. Chona Reguyal, a primary care provider, received the first Covid-19 vaccination in the region just before 11 a.m. Tuesday. "This is truly the light at the end of the tunnel and we're very very excited and very very proud" to be the first medical facility to administer the shots, Dr. David Ellis, Pardee's chief medical officer, told the media.  Pardee Hospital identified the first 584 employees who will be able to get the ...

HENDERSONVILLE Jamie Kilpatrick is a registered nurse who works with COVID-19 patients every shift. Her father is at high risk after a recent heart attack and she hasn’t set foot in her parents’ house in more than a year. Tuesday, she was the second person in line to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Western North Carolina, hoping to give people confidence in the vaccine and help turn the corner on the pandemic that’s spreading at the highest rates ever in Western North Carolina. “It is definitely a sense of relief,” she said. “Just that it’s available now.”

'A light at the end of the tunnel:' First COVID-19 vaccines administered in Western North Carolina Derek Lacey, Asheville Citizen Times Cheers for first COVID-19 vaccine recipient in WNC Replay Video UP NEXT HENDERSONVILLE Jamie Kilpatrick is a registered nurse who works with COVID-19 patients every shift in the ICU. Her father is at high risk after a recent heart attack and she hasn’t set foot in her parents’ house in more than a year. Tuesday, she was the second person in line to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Western North Carolina, hoping to give people confidence...