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First U.S.-China undergraduate conference on climate change

Washington University Students for International Collaboration on the Environment (WUSICE) will host the first U.S.-China Undergraduate Conference on Climate Change and Sustainability Thursday through Tuesday, Nov. 4-9, on the Danforth Campus. The conference, which will address issues of energy, food production, climate change, environmental justice and more, is free and open to the public. Eleven undergraduate students representing Fudan University in Shanghai, China, will attend the conference at the invitation of Washington University. In addition to the lectures, the Chinese students, with a group of 11 WUSTL students, will participate in Mock COP16, modeled after the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held later this month in Mexico. The students will debate the major issues currently being discussed in negotiations, specifically mitigation actions, financing, accountability, technology transfer and capacity building, and market mechanisms.
Outcomes: 
The final product will be the Washington-Fudan White Paper, a document summarizing the outcomes of the negotiation. Junior Jiakun “Summer” Zhao, president of WUSICE, will share the paper at the 2010 UNFCCC COP16 beginning Nov. 29 as the Sierra Club International Student Delegate. The objective of the conference is to initiate international collaboration at the undergraduate student level, says sophomore Karen Mok, WUSICE China liaison.
Government?: 
No
Type of Exchange: 
education/science
Partners: 
Fudan University
Sponsor(s): 
Washington University Students for International Collaboration on the Environment (WUSICE)
Participants (Types): 
College students
Number of Participants: 
22
Exchange Date: 
Thursday, November 4, 2010 to Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Continuing: 
No
Location: 
St. Louis, Missouri
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