CSU at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27)

Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt Nov 6 - 20, 2022

Where to find CSU at COP27

CSU Side Event:
New Approaches to Wildfire: Managing Changing Risks in Urban, Suburban, and Wilderness Areas

Lead applicant: France Global Hub, Future Earth, co-applicant: Colorado State University.
Speakers from CSU: Peter Backlund, Hussam Mahmoud, Courtney Schultz
Watch the Webcast Recording

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Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education Network (YEAH)

URL: https://yeah-net.org/about/
Contact: [email protected]

YEAH (Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education) activities – designed for students to raise their voices and share ideas with the global audience. Lead institutions: Colorado State and Michigan Technological University. Partner institutions: Boston University, University of Connecticut, Ecological Society of America, Colorado College, Monash University (Australia), Brandeis University, Vanderbilt University and Moravian University

1. U.S. Center Exhibition – Voices and visions: the art and science of climate action with the Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education (YEAH) and PEACE BOAT-US

2. U.S. Center Panel Discussion – Educating the next generation of climate leaders

3. UNFCCC Exhibit (booth) – Youth Climate Leaders, Groups Included: Colorado College, MTU, CSU, UConn, ESA, Emory, Vanderbilt, UCal, Fondation Mohammed VI pour la Protection de l’Environnement (FM6E), and Global Youth Development Institute, Inc. (GYDI).

4. UNFCCC Side Event – Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education: Climate leadership across generations, Groups Include: MTU, CSU, UConn, Yale

CSU Delegation to COP27

  • Peter Backlund (head of delegation), School of Global Environmental Sustainability
  • Courtney Schultz, Dept. of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship
  • Hussam Mahmoud, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Colleen Duncan, Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
  • Aleta Rudeen Weller, School of Global Environmental Sustainability
  • Gillian Bowser, Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
  • Julia Klein, Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability (badged by the Mountain Institute)

Graduate students in a CSU Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Course with badges through CSU and Boston University:

Coleen Kennedy, Alyssa Connaughton, Daniel Domingues, Natalie Wiley, Daniel Briggs, Cristal Domingues-Vasquez, Susan Elizabeth Allison, Madeline Carlson, Ashlee Patacsil-Hardin, Jorge Rico Reyes, Leisha Tally, Nicole Bailey

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

The School is responsible for managing CSU’s participation as an official observer organization in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). CSU can request that a small number of people receive credentials for the annual meetings of the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP), which is the international body in which negotiations for a global climate change agreement take place.

If you are interested in attending a UNFCCC climate change meeting as part of CSU’s delegation, contact Aleta Weller, Senior Research and Engagement Officer: [email protected].

SoGES provides credentials only, attendees must finance and arrange their own travel.