Fletcher Student Carolyn House discusses the resilience that delegates at the COP displayed throughout the first week of Article 6 negotiations. Carolyn also describes how social resistance played a part in the conference.
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Fletcher School student Asgeir Barlaup attended the first week of COP25, or what people call the “technical week.” Asgeir focused on attending events that were concerned with Article 6 of the Paris Climate Agreement. He discusses the impact of the negotiations breaking down and the youth activists’ impact on the event as a whole.
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Fletcher School pre-doctoral fellow, Rishikesh Bhandary, discusses the negotiations on carbon markets and how they ultimately broke down at COP25. Although these negotiations did not lead to concrete policy, Rishi explains that this should not be seen as a vote of confidence against the Paris Agreement, and that next year may prove to be more fruitful.
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Tufts University student Julia Lober discusses her time at the COP, and how one event on Arctic sea ice left her feeling hopeful and with a message of simplicity - “release less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the ice will stop melting so fast.”
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Fletcher School student Maria Elena Sandalli discusses the numerous businesses that made climate commitments at the COP this year, and describes attending the #unitebehindthescience event with activists Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer, as well as the ‘Brands4 Sustainability’ event put on by Bocconi University and the ‘It’s a Flying Shame - Nordic efforts towards Sustainable Aviation’ event in the Nordic Pavilion, among others.
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