In December, ten School of Environmental Studies students and two faculty members will be participating as official observers at the United Nations sponsored Conference of the Parties (COP) international negotiations on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Representatives from over 190 countries will be in Copenhagen to address this global environmental issue and explore strategies for how the international community will address it. The conference places importance on transparency and input from a wide range of constituencies and, toward that end, provides accreditation to non-government (civil society) organizations that demonstrate competencies in areas related to the proceedings. 

In September the School of Environmental Studies Education Foundation (SESEF) was granted UN accreditation. Joining the SES students on the delegation will be students and faculty from Justus Tranchell high school in Landskrona Sweden. Landskrona is a 50 minute train ride from Copenhagen and SES students will be staying with Swedish host families during their time there.

While at the COP conference, student delegates will observe the negotiation sessions and participate in the over 200 side events that will be taking place in conjunction with the official sessions. The SES students will be reporting on the events back to schools and the broader community both during and after the conference.

Students will be blogging about their experiences at the COP over the two weeks of the conference.  The SES COP15 blog can be found at: http://ses-climate.blogspot.com/

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