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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.
Read MoreFletcher 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.
Read MoreTufts 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.”
Read MoreFletcher 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.
Read MoreMALD student Dana Thomas reflects on her first trip to the COP by discussing the time in Professor Gallagher’s Climate Change and Clean Energy Policy class when she was tasked with acting as the COP Presidency in a simulated negotiation similar to COP21. Throughout her time at the COP this year, Dana realized that the simulated negotiation and the current negotiations are more similar that previously realized.
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