By Allie Rosenbluth and Jon Kirsch, COP23 Creative Challenge participants In a spectacular display of activism and solidarity, young Americans all over the country signed and shared a letter to President Trump this week, urging him to uphold the United States’ commitment to the Paris Agreement. Mr. Trump is widely…
By Dineen O’Rourke and Karina Gonzalez, SustainUS COP23 Delegation Leaders As the results of the 2017 U.S. election were called on November 8th, the sun was beginning to rise over the city of Marrakech, Morocco. Our COP22 delegation had been spending the entire night preparing for an action at the…
“What would you die for?” It is a question not often heard at the UN Climate Negotiations, but one that broke into these halls of power on Thursday afternoon. Posed by indigenous youth delegate Niria Alicia Garcia Torres, she demanded of the crowd: “Tell me, what is it you would…
The third floor hallway dropped off sharply to my left, my feet and a chasm to the great outdoors separated by a disarray of bricks and orange plastic netting. To my right, a sleek black glass door and a room filled with suits. India is a series of contrasts –…
My stomach tightened as I weaved through uncountable hordes of blue-suited officers. This was midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, September 21st. Businessmen beelined past me nursing coffee on their way to the office, shined shoes scuffing on gum-studded pavement. As a white man growing up in New York City, I’ve personally…
