March 30, 2016

Duke Students Witness History at Paris Climate Talks

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

The thousands of negotiators, reporters and observers at this winter's U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in France included a team of Duke University students there to observe the historic event and provide supporting information on climate issues. The students spent the fall semester taking the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations Practicum course taught by Nicholas Institute faculty fellow Billy Pizer and Jonathan Wiener, a professor in the Duke Law School. Eight of the practicum students attended the UNFCCC's 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) negotiations in Paris in November and December, traveling with financial and logistical support from the Energy Initiative, the Nicholas School of the Environment, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and the Sanford Innovation & Impact Fund. 

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