Over the course of this ongoing block, I have had the incredible opportunity to attend COP28, the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Dubai, as part of our class, ‘AN380 Engaging COP28 in Dubai as Ethnographers.’ While I had been relatively aware of the grandiose nature of this global event, nothing could have prepared …
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Day one was a whirlwind event, beginning with an almost hour long metro ride from our hotel to the COP 28 venue at Expo City 2020 . The metro ride was notably smooth, and although crowded at our stop, most people disembarked at the Sobha Realty, presumably for work, despite it being 10 am. Once …
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Sarah Hautzinger (Professor of Anthropology) Each year, the signatory countries to the 2015 Paris Agreement and previous conventions gather in what is called a “COP,” for Conference of the Parties. COP28 in Dubai (Nov 30-Dec 12) is hosting a jaw-dropping number of attendees, reaching over 100,000 registered delegates (with some 3,000 registered virtually). By comparison, …
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By Naomi Henry Nicole Yanes “We don’t see ourselves as a funder but we see ourselves rematriating this wealth that was built our of our lands, that was extracted from our lands, stolen lands, and so we’re rematriating it in a good way and resourcing it, and putting it back into our communities so we …
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By Layla Haji
Photos from AN380's time in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
By Rhetta Power My Tuesday began at the Na’ama Blue Hotel, a youth hostel in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. I’m here as part of Colorado College’s delegation to the 27th Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP27). As a designated “Week Two-er,” a delegate badged to access only the second week of the COP, my plan …
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By Rhetta Power On November 3rd, Colorado College will be sending a delegation of AN380 students to the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. This year is the 27th Conference of Parties (COP). COP27 will take place between November 6-18th in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt and is expected to have around 40,000 attendants. A core mission …
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By Olivia Jacobson I have been including doodles in my notes for a long time now. Though often cast as evidence of distraction, I only doodle when I'm most engaged. Adding visual representation into note-taking practices helps to process and interpret information. Below I've included excerpts from the journal I kept throughout our block abroad …
