“It’s Been a Year and We Are Back Here Suffering:” Where Do We Go from Here?

By Ella Reese-Clauson ’26, International Political Economy |
Follow along on the path of my hope at COP29, starting first with some of the more encouraging sessions I went to before digging into the fissures that made that faith vanish. I will bring the reader with me as I witness firsthand some of the conference’s many failures but also highlight a few successes that leave me feeling a sense of faith, no longer in the UNFCCC and its institutions but in the people that make COPs run.

CC’s “Badge Boogie” at COPs

Sarah Hautzinger, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies   “How many badges did you get?”   “Are you badged for next week?”   “Does anyone know of an available badge for Thursday?”  These are questions anyone encountering COP, or a UN Conference of the Parties gathering, will encounter. For the climate COPs* that I’ve been taking CC delegations …

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