My Grandmother always tells me, “If you don’t have your health, you have nothing.” This was her way of reminding me to eat healthily, to wash my hands, and to get my flu shots. In all honesty, whenever she repeated this little saying to me, I rolled my eyes. As a wealthy girl in a […]
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Read More »I have spent the past few days blogging about my daily reflections from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 23rd Conference of Parties. But for my last blog post on this event, I figured it might be nice to explain what exactly it is that happened there. What did the UNFCCC parties accomplish? […]
Have you ever heard of imposter syndrome? It is a condition of feeling out of place, feeling as though you are underqualified, underprepared in a given physical or social environment or situation. I have been experiencing intermittent ‘imposter syndrome’ ever since my first day at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 23rd Conference […]
I’ve been called a hippie and a tree hugger and a climate crank. Pretty much every name or stereotype that has been applied to an environmentalist has been associated with my name at one point or another. All because I study climate change. Now I think this is funny, so I often let them go […]
I love elephants. Like a lot. I love them to come the degree that, I have adopted elephants in South East Asia. But, what I do not like is when there is an “elephant” in the room and everyone refuses to acknowledge it. Today that elephant is the issue of climate change migration. I spent […]
When you watch C-SPAN or a Mock UN simulation, you often see politics and governance negotiations as lively, even somewhat loud, debates and discussions. But sitting at one of today’s meetings of the SBI, a subsidiary body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that reviews the implementation of the Convention and […]
When I was riding the metro from Cologne back to our hotel this evening, I gave my seat to an elderly gentleman with a cane. He kindly thanked me and asked where I was from and why I was in Germany. I told him I was here representing Emory University at the United Nations Framework […]
I all myself a Christian Buddhist. And when I say this, people usually give me a funny look. Why do you practice two religions they ask? And the short answer is, climate change. I was raised as a Christian. And accordingly, I was baptized before I was one and confirmed before I was fourteen. My […]
