By Cecilia Timberg “We are at the table gathering resources to help countries that need it with mitigation and adaptation,” said Ali Zaidi, White House Climate Advisor, responding to a question about whether the United States is going to support financing for loss and damage at COP27, the annual UN climate conference. Dozens of hands …
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Bus Connections: An Ode to Relationships Formed on the Periphery of COP27 in Egypt
By Cecilia Timberg By the time I got on an Egypt-bound plane, I had sat through half a dozen risk mitigation meetings. The messaging was clear: don’t trust strangers, don’t get estranged from the group, it will all feel so strange. It was with this fear-forward attitude that I approached my first days in Sharm …
Our Voice @ COP27: Sustainable Development Goals
Cecilia Timberg, 24′, Gracie Roe, 25′ and Reeve Schroeder, 24′ present on SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities During SDG 11’s group presentation, Mika Alexander, 23′, was asked to do an interview with a Swiss newspaper on the importance of youth voices in civil society. All 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals Within the space …
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