After Years of Resistance from Developed Countries, “Loss and Damage” Funding is on the Agenda for COP27. Four Days Remain to Realize This Potential.

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 …

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 …

CC students speak in press conferences at COP27

Mika Alexander ’23, Mary Andrews ’23, Cecilia Timberg ’24, and Gracie Roe ’25 speak at a press conference about storytelling based on the Talanoa Dialogue. Olivia Jacobson ’22 and Mary Andrews ’23 speak in a press conference about the Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education. Owen Brown ’24, Reeve Schroeder ’24, and Gracie Roe ’25 …

Creating Community at NYT Climate Forward

By Mika Alexander In all honesty, I was nervous walking into COP27. Despite knowing I would be engaging in an international space, I arrived hyper-aware of my position as a woman of color surrounded by high-level negotiators, many of whom are elder men.  For context, I am pretty used to my existence remaining unacknowledged in …

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 …

If Information Created Democracy, Can Misinformation Destroy It?

“What we are seeing is death by a thousand cuts.” -Maria Ressa In 2013, the Philippines became a trial-run for Facebook’s “Free Facebook” campaign, an effort to subsidize internet access for smartphone users. The campaign was heralded as a success; nearly 69 million Filipinos use Facebook today, compared to 29 million in 2012. Yet, as …

The Civilian-Military Divide And Why You Should Care

Growing up in a small town in Oregon, I had little interaction with the military. Oregon has few active-duty military bases, most of which were several hours away. My first experience even really seeing members of the Armed Forces was on a trip to Portland to get ice cream (when you come from a small …

The Magic in the CC Classroom: Your Peers

In an effort to foster connection between our cohorts, Robin, a paraprofessional in the Geology department, posted photos of all of us in each classroom.In an effort to foster connection between our cohorts, Robin, a paraprofessional in the Geology department, posted photos of all of us in each classroom. Throughout the course of my first …

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