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Vanderbilt selected to present at COP28-Dubai, UAE

Jul. 6, 2024— Vanderbilt University students were selected to present at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), known as COP28, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from November 20 – December 12, 2023. Vanderbilt students and faculty presented in a number of forums, and interacted with...

Vanderbilt at the United Nations!

Jan. 21, 2020—Vanderbilt students participated in the 25th Conference of the Parties (“COP25”)to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Madrid, Spain in December 2019. During this life-changing trip in which students interacted daily with people from nearly 197 nations including many indigenous populations (all under one roof!), Vanderbilt students: met with members of...

VCCI teaching new, undergraduate interdisciplinary climate change course

Aug. 12, 2019—Dr. Leah Dundon will be teaching a new undergraduate Honors Seminar this Fall 2019 semester titled “Climate Change and the Global Response: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective.” The class will be a truly interdisciplinary look at the challenges, opportunities, and potential solutions to climate change. A few students will have the opportunity to attend the Conference of...

VCCI attends the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Katowice

Mar. 6, 2019—The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Katowice, Poland, in December, 2018. COP24 saw two weeks filled with sometimes tense negotiations aimed at completing the “Paris Rulebook,” a set of rules by which countries will operate as they implement and report on...

Tour of Alstom manufacturing – world’s first hydrogen train

Mar. 1, 2019—December 2018 — VCCI Director Dr. Leah Dundon tours Alstom train manufacturing in Katowice, Poland during COP24. Alstom has developed the world’s first hydrogen train, now in passenger service in Germany.