CSU at the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30)
Belém, Brazil, Nov. 10-21, 2025
Where to find CSU at COP30
Exhibit
Booth 13, November 10-15
Contact: [email protected]
Public and private institutions of Colorado (USA) participate in local to global partnerships that increase and communicate knowledge and develop effective strategies to deal with the challenges of climate change, sustainability and the protection of communities and natural resources.
Lead Applicant:
University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder)
Co-applicants:
Colorado State University, Instituto Andino de Montaña (IDM), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Side Event
Thursday, November 20
Contact: Ms. Gladis Valeria Soto Inzunza at [email protected]
Higher Education as a Critical Global Partner for Enabling and Accelerating Climate Action
COP30’s sixth axis for action includes unleashing actors and enablers, and the global higher education sector is delivering on this agenda. This panel explores how higher education can build capacity across geographies and scales, directly benefiting their local, regional, and national communities.
Speakers: This panel will feature representatives from higher education networks and institutions around the world.
Lead applicant:
Tecnológico de Monterrey (Tec de Monterrey).
Co-applicants:
Colorado State University, Australian National University (ANU), Ecole polytechnique (X), National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Northwestern University (NU), Second Nature, Universite Cote d’Azur (UCA), Université Laval (Institut EDS), University of Edinburgh, University of Mannheim, Yale University
Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education Network
CSU is one of the lead institutions of the YEAH network, which is designed for students to raise their voices and share ideas with the global audience. Drs. Bowser and Klein are part of the team organizing dialogues with students and educators on climate action. YEAH is working with The Higher Education Alliance to organize events and provide opportunities for students to be fully engaged in the COP processes. Dr. Bowser, as a lead author for the IPCC AR7 report that is just getting underway, will be hosting dialogues with the IPCC authors and co-leads to provide opportunities for students learn about environmental governance and sustainability through the scientific assessment process.
Mountain Sentinels
CSU is the lead organization for the Mountain Sentinels Alliance – which consists of academics, community knowledge holders, Indigenous rights-holders, practitioners, educators, and students – and is focused on identifying and implementing pathways to sustainability across the world’s mountains.
Mountain Sentinels will be contributing to UNFCCC COP30 through several events and partner collaborations.
Our attendance and participation would not be possible without our partners:
University of Colorado, Boulder
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, UCAR
Colorado College
National Academy of Sciences
Emory University
University of Arizona
CSU at other events
- Gillian Bowser– Nov 18 15:00-16:00, side event room 8. YEAH network helping organize the side event U.S. Congressional Delegation at COP30: Dialogue with Students and Educators on Climate Action“
- Julia Klein– Nov 18, 11:30-13:00, side event room 9. Helping organize the side event Amplifying Global South Voices for Climate Action and Evidence-Based Policymaking”
- Courtney Schultz and Aleta Weller – Nov 13. participating in Academia Connected Through Climate Action, an international event collaboratively organized by the Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará and Tecnológico de Monterrey
CSU Delegation to COP30
Aleta Weller
Head of Delegation
Assistant Director of Research and Engagement, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University
[email protected]
Courtney Schultz
Director, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University
[email protected]
Julia Klein
Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
[email protected]
Gillian Bowser
Associate Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
[email protected]
CSU at Previous COP Events
FOR MORE INFORMATION
The School is responsible for managing CSU’s participation as an official observer organization in The Convention on Climate Change. CSU can request that a small number of people receive credentials for the annual meetings of the Conference of Parties (COP), which is the international body in which negotiations for a global biodiversity agreement take place.
If you are interested in attending 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.