Author: Allison Baumgartner, University of Michigan, School of Public Health Introduction. Last November, delegations and observers gathered from across the globe to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP) to discuss and reach a consensus on climate change goals and national commitments. As a global health epidemiologist, the second …
If you are reading this blog post, you may be keeping up with the news around COP29. Scandals and questionable political motives were on full display. In response, a quote I have been thinking about recently: “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to …
The packed bus lurched forward as I gripped the railing, trying to steady myself in the dense crowd of delegates, activists, and observers leaving the venue at COP29 in Baku. Exhaustion hung in the air, but so did an unspoken camaraderie. A gentle tap on my arm—a man with kind, tired eyes and a red …
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