Someone recently asked me: “What is the difference between the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) and the UN Bonn Intersessional Meetings?”
Terms defined:
UN Climate Change Conferences
The 58th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SB58) of the United Nations Framework...
Every year there is a COP (Conference of the Parties) in November or December as well an Intersessional Meeting that takes place in Bonn in May or June. This year the Intersessional Meeting (UN Climate Negotiations) was held from Monday, June 5 to Thursday, June 15, 2023 in Bonn. This year’s COP (COP28) will...
She Surfs Freedom: Approaches to Ending Violence against Women and Girls Online and Creating Safe Spaces for Young Women and Girls
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Salvation Army Auditorium
This panel discussed the results of a survey conducted during the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based...
Girl Scouts of USA
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 10:30 am-12:30 pm
Salvation Army Auditorium
Sarah from Oklahoma. I was impressed by her experience of not being able to access the Internet in her small, rural town of 2,334 residents. This made me realize that not everyone has the privilege to have access to what...
For me, COPs have surprisingly started to represent HOPE, and COP27 in 2022 was the ultimate test. I had not attended a COP in person since 2019, and so much had happened in those few years – the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine invasion and related fossil fuel crisis, global inflation and my own personal...
At the annual UN Climate Conference (COP), there are always more applications to attend than there are passes. FAWCO believes in the active participation of our youth. For COP27, we gave one of our available passes to Alice Finno, a student at John Cabot University, who attended the second week of the conference. The...