UU delegation at climate conference COP23 in Bonn


This year, the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23) was held in Bonn, Germany, and hosted by the government of Fiji. Starting on November 6th and for two weeks, the event gathered governments and vast parts of civil society to discuss the next steps after the 2015 Paris Agreement. Uppsala University has status as observer organization and sent a delegation of students and researchers to the conference.

Read more at: http://www.web.cemus.se/uucop23/

Uppsala University has been sending delegations of students and researchers to the climate change negotations since 2015, when Doreen Stabinsky, the first Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership, initiated a call for students to apply to join the official delegation of Uppsala University to COP21 in Paris. The students attending the first meetings have now created a student-organisation, Uppsala University Climate Change Platform.