University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Nova Tebbe, who works across disciplines from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies to the La Follette School of Public Affairs, calls herself a climate newcomer. Yet, in early November, she joined 300 people who walked out of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (or COP26) to protest the lack of significant commitment to combat climate change, especially with regards to human rights and public health.
Attending her third COP, Sumudu Atapattu, director of Research Centers and senior lecturer at the UW Law School and a member of the UW-Madison Global Health (GHI) Institute Advisory Board, says the value of COP is the convergence of civil society— the groups representing youth, women, Indigenous people, island nations and more—to support each other and put pressure on climate negotiators.
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