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The following is an excerpt from a published by the Climate Commitment:

“Leading this class is one of the coolest parts of my job,” says Jackson Ewing, director of Energy and Climate Policy at the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability. The class is a practicum course focused around the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the primary UN body for climate diplomacy around the world. Each year, the UNFCCC hosts a summit, known as COP (Conference of Parties). The summit brings together tens of thousands of people from all over the world, with numerous countries represented, companies from global conglomerates to startups, and nonprofits and NGOs big and small. This year’s summit is COP30 — the 30th year of meetings. 

���Ĵ�ýs in the immersive practicum come from all over Duke. They are undergraduates, master’s and doctoral students from the Sanford School, Nicholas School of the Environment, Pratt School of Engineering, Fuqua School of Business, Law, Humanities and beyond. Roughly 15 are accepted into the course each year, during which they work in partnership with one of the active participants in COP. Each week, students are taught by leaders in climate policy from across sectors, learning from visiting real-world practitioners how climate work gets done. During the course, students also travel to Washington, DC to meet with policymakers, and to COP to see real-world policymaking in action.

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