He also wants to boost involvement now that the U.S. With the last adoption in 2015, Aboujaoude decided to propose this special event. The Paris Agreement works on a 5-year cycle. “We can encourage student participation in the largest climate conference that the world has.” “UF students will be able to participate in a much grander scale than any year previously with the negotiations,” Aboujaoude said. “There’s no better time to get the world leaders to pay attention than at an actual climate summit.”Īboujaoude believes the university will pioneer student involvement with U.N. “Pressuring world leaders is the best way to get this done,” Aboujaoude said. Failure to achieve the goals will likely result in more than the suggested global warming limit of well below 2 degrees Celsius. Secretariat.įew nations are on track to reach the target goals set by the Paris Climate Accords if innovation and change aren’t demanded immediately, Aboujaoude said. In the past, he has tracked down Al Gore, Harrison Ford, John Kerry and the U.N. 12.Īboujaoude will be on the ground tracking down delegates to interview and invite to speak at the daily briefings. After the Halloween conference, he will provide live updates each night until the U.N. He anticipates more than 300 attendees with 120 people already signed up.Īboujaoude, a UF interdisciplinary ecology master’s student, will be connected live through Zoom from Glasgow, Scotland where the U.N. Topics will cover negotiations, energy, finance and more, according to the Campus Climate Corps Conference Draft Program.Īboujaoude hopes the event speakers will incite grandeur and a sense of importance about the climate emergency among students. delegates, who will be hosted remotely from the Glasgow, Scotland conference. Participants will hear from and speak to U.N. conference, will provide hour-long daily briefs at 7 p.m. The summit hosts 25,000 attendees from 200 nations to discuss solutions and set standards to manage the climate crisis, UF master’s student Rock Aboujaoude, Jr. The UF conference is meant to introduce to students the logistics and purpose of the annual U.N.

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