Foundations
Reactions to
climate change are happening at many different levels across many different
fields of experience. In order to traverse the various layers of GHG mitigation efforts I will compare
the relative success of the global climate change regime (the UNFCCC, Kyoto
Protocol, the COP meetings) against gains made by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Chicago Climate Exchange.
This will help determine the state of climate change mitigation
policy-making. Second, I will take the
results of a survey of climate change academics I performed during my internship
with Youth Climate Report and use those results to determine the state of interaction between climate science and policy.
My
internship this past summer, May-August 2012, was with Youth Climate Report, a
film project based out of Toronto. The project was partnered with the UNEP to
create movies that were purely interviews between students and
climate/sustainability scientists. The
movies were then screened at high profile UNEP conferences such as Rio+20 and COP 17 in Durban. My job was to contact research programs and
convince them to partner with us. As a
result I was able to speak with a lot of scientists and academics who work on climate change.
