A Gleneagle secondary school graduate is hoping to make a difference by attending the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change this week.
Anjali Appadurai of Coquitlam will be in Durban, South Africa, along with eight classmates from the College of the Atlantic who have been studying climate change politics and policy. She will be using her time in Durban to better understand the UN process and multilateral politics.
"Those historically responsible for our current emissions level as well as those most affected must come to the table together and make binding commitments to slow our emissions to a level that may lessen some of the anticipated damage to people and the environment," Appadurai said in a press release.
Before attending the College of the Atlantic, located in Bar Harbor, Maine, Appadurai was a Gleneagle student who completed her international baccalaureate at the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Victoria.
Appadurai and her fellow students have created a blog and will be posting reports from Durban at www.earthinbrackets.org.
