Students Enthused by COP27 Reparations Agreement
12/8/2022: Arts and Sciences students Arden Podpora ’23 and Eva Fenningdorf ’23 returned from the 27th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) enthusiastic about an agreement that countries will pay for the damage that climate change causes to poorer countries.
Cornell at the COP27 Climate Conference
11/30/2022: Ensuring a just transition to renewable energy, rebuilding regional food systems, establishing carbon markets, and supporting smallholder farmers and others who are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change were among the themes that emerged as most important to Cornell’s delegation at the United Nations’ 27th Conference of the Parties, better known as COP27.
Student Prods COP27 to Include Youth in Climate Solutions
11/17/2022: Kehkashan Basu, an MBA student at the Johnson School, hopes to kindle positive global change. She moderated the first roundtable meeting between government officials and youth at COP27.
Professor Tells COP27 to Move Faster on Energy Transition
11/14/2022: For green energy on a global scale, the world must work faster. Cornell professor Semida Silveira introduced the first official statement of a United Nations’ engineering working group – the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET) – to the COP27 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.