Students, faculty, and staff from Yale join negotiators, policymakers, environmental advocates, and heads of state from nearly 200 countries at the annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, this week. This year’s conference, taking place in Dubai from November 30-December 12, is expected to focus heavily on the first of the Global Stocktakes. Adopted in the Paris Agreement, the stocktakes serve as an inventory of global progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the level needed to keep global warming well below 2°C (3.6°F) above preindustrial levels.
A total of 32 YSE students and 11 Yale College students will be working with a wide array of governmental and nongovernmental delegations, including the Mexican and Peruvian delegations, the Malaysian Youth Delegation, Environmental Defense Fund, and National Resources Defense Council, among others.
Envrionmental Studies majors Saskia Braden ‘24.5, Emma Polinsky ‘25, Rose Hansen ‘25, Sebastian Duque ‘24, Peyton Meyer ‘24, and Selin Goren ‘24 are among the 11 Yale College students attending the conference this week.
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