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Boost university voices at COP24 UN climate meeting

  1. Samantha Basile

    1. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

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  2. Michael Lerner

    1. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

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  3. Keyon Rostamnezhad

    1. Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Research institutions are appointed to act as official ‘observer’ delegates at international climate negotiations that are hosted by the United Nations and are otherwise closed to journalists and the outside world (see go.nature.com/2atycmq). As non-party stakeholders, they will provide a layer of transparency at this week’s 24th annual Conference of the Parties session, for example. Thanks to the University Climate Delegation Coalition (UCDC) that we launched last year, these delegates are no longer simply observers: they can now bring a wide range of research voices to the table.

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Nature 564, 39 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07610-8

Competing Interests

Samantha Basile and Michael Lerner are including information here about their involvement with the campus student group, Climate Blue. Climate Blue supports the climate delegation at the University of Michigan and has engaged in advocacy on climate policy issues relevant to the city of Ann Arbor and the state of Michigan. Samantha Basile was the director of Climate Blue from fall 2016 to spring 2018 and is a current member of the group. Michael Lerner was a member from fall 2017 to spring 2018.

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