Beth Martin, Engineering and Science Director / Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic at Washington University in St. Louis, is working to pull together a list of RINGO students and advisors who attended this year’s COP and/or are interested in sending students and advisors to future COPs.
Beth writes: “The idea of pulling together a network is to better enable communication between both students and faculty in the Young RINGO context (students attending COP in a research capacity).This would enable students in programs to build connections and compare notes and at the same time provide faculty a way to do the same. I am beginning to pull this together and at this point I am not sure what the final form(s) will be. A LinkedIn network and Facebook group have both been suggested, for example. But first – I am collecting names. Please contact Beth at martin@wulaw.wustl.edu if you:
1) want to be in this network.
2) know others from your institution who want to be included.
3) know other institutions who want to be included.
4) have suggestions for the form of the network.”
I met Beth in November when we were both leading delegations to COP19 in Warsaw. She and I organized a social gathering during the COP’s first week – and were happily surprised by some 30 students and professors who turned out and spent a couple of evening hours at our apartment sharing their COP19 work and experiences.
Beth also passes on a request from Sara Kerosky, Research Associate in the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at UCSD. Sara’s lab is doing a survey of how NGOs use (or not use) international law in their advocacy work. She and her colleagues hope to complete their research soon and share the results so that NGOs may use them when working at future COPs. The link to the survey is http://tinyurl.com/ILARenvironment. I spent a solid half hour taking the survey yesterday and found myself more deeply thinking about the development of international environmental law (vs. policy), the UNFCCC process, and the various roles that a variety of NGOs play in it. Time well spent on several levels.