-By Olivia Keck, ‘18C, Environmental Sciences  Health became part of COP discussions with approval of the Paris agreement in December 2015. The Earth is experiencing climate change and impacting human health at an unprecedented rate. With over half of the world’s population living near the coast and one of the primary concerns of climate change being […]

-By Rachel Pui Shi Loh, ‘18C, Economics and International Studies  The Adaptation Fund helps developing countries such as Tanzania finance climate adaptation projects. Populations in underdeveloped nations contribute minimally to global emissions compared to developed counterparts. However, they are often the ones who bear the greatest impacts of climate change. Some of the by-products of global warming are increased incidences of weather catastrophes, such […]

-By Halle Bradshaw, ’19C, Environmental Sciences “We are here not as victims, but as survivors.” These words and so many others echoed through the halls of the COP23 conference in Bonn, Germany. Women’s rights organizations showed that women’s rights are inextricably linked to the issues of climate change and deserve to be center stage in the search […]

-By Lauren Balotin, a ’19C major in Environmental Sciences and Media Studies A common concern about climate change is people’s inability to make an individual impact. Climate change is an issue that doesn’t have borders; it affects everyone around the world, and negotiations concerning it take place at local, regional, national, and international levels. So what could anyone possibly do […]