Interning at the World Resources Institute as the 2020 Tufts Climate Ambition Intern was a truly valuable opportunity to connect what I had learnt in class at Fletcher, with the practical reality of working on climate action.
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Fletcher School pre-doctoral fellow, Fang Zhang, discusses her experience at COP24 by describing what it felt like to attend a climate conference in a city with a substantial coal mining history. Fang also emphasizes the long process of negotiation and how certain anti-climate entities prove to be relatively ineffective in halting climate action.
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Rishi Bhandary, a Fletcher School pre-doctoral fellow, discusses his experience at COP24, emphasizing the gridlock between parties in regards to Article 6 of The Paris Agreement. Rishi has extensive research knowledge of the topic, and analyzes the various agreed-upon and controversial topics that came up throughout negotiations.
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Fletcher School MALD student, Josh Boyce, describes his experience during the second week of COP24. Josh provides details on the 4par1000 event on behalf of GDAE and Soil4Climate and expresses his optimism in combating climate change moving forward.
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Eliot Martin, a graduate student at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, provides insight into the events at COP24 in the Indonesia Pavilion. Eliot states that, “Indonesia now finds itself in a no-win position with a commodity that has become the backbone of its rural economy,” in regards to the extensive palm oil production occurring in the country.
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