HBCU ROAD TO COP21 IN PARIS
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In 2011, because of the urgent need to diversify leadership in the environmental arena, Dr. Beverly Wright, Director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University (New Orleans) and Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University (Houston) launched the Historically Black College Climate Change Initiative .
The Initiative was conceived to help raise awareness about the disproportionate impact of climate change on marginalized communities and to develop HBCU students as leaders and advocates on issues related to environmental and climate justice policies, community resilience, adaptation and other major climate change topics—especially in vulnerable communities in the southern United States where the vast majority of HBCUs are located and where more billion-dollar disasters occur than the rest of the country combined.
The HBCU Climate Change Initiative is seeking funds to support a delegation of students and faculty mentors to participate in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties 21st convening (COP21) in Paris, France from November 30, 2015 through December 13, 2015. It is our desire to send one faculty mentor and two students representing each of the participating HBCUs to the in-person training in New Orleans and the conference in Paris. We are kindly requesting your assistance in meeting our goals
To date, the Initiative has a total of 22 HBCUs participating in its activities and is growing its numbers to include more schools each year in an effort to train the next generation of climate and environmental justice leaders. Since 2011, the Initiative has supported hundreds of HBCU faculty, students and leaders from climate-vulnerable communities participate in a number of important domestic and international gatherings including:
• 2011 – United Nations COP17, Durban, South Africa, December, Twelve (12) HBCU Delegates representing three (3) HBCUs attended the conference.
• 2012 – Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro, a six-person delegation represented the HBCU Climate Change Initiative at this Summit.
• 2013 – First Annual HBCU Student Climate Change Conference, New Orleans, LA, Conference Participants 102, One (1) Student Panel, Nine (9) Student Poster Presentations.
• 2014 – Second Annual HBCU Student Climate Change Conference, New Orleans, LA, Conference Participants 110, Three (3) Student Panels, Thirteen (13) Student Poster Presentations.
• 2014 – People’s Climate March, Teach-In and Youth Convergence – New York, NY September, HBCU Climate Change Initiative participants (105) representing ten (10) HBCUs, Gulf Coast Teach-In, Student Convergence Panel and Climate March.
• 2015 – More than a dozen HBCU Climate Change Initiative schools participated in the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of Jubilee Bridge Crossing and the “Change Is Gonna Come: Advancing an Environmental and Climate Justice Agenda in the South” Workshop, March.
• 2015 – Third Annual HBCU Student Climate Change Conference, New Orleans, LA, Conference Participants 165, Five (5) Student Panels, Fourteen (14) Student Poster Presentations.
• 2015 – Gulf Coast Rising – Katrina 10 Week of Action and COP21 HBCU Delegate Training Climate Justice Convergence, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Katrina March & Second Line.
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HBCU Climate Change Initiative Partners
Alabama A&M University | Alabama State University | Claflin University | Dillard University | Fisk University | Florida A&M University | Grambling State University | Howard University | Huston-TiIlotson University | Lincoln University |Morehouse College | North Carolina A&T University | Savannah State University | Southern A&M University of Baton Rouge | Spelman College | Tennessee State University | Texas Southern University | Xavier University of Louisiana | Jackson State University | Morgan State University | Southern University New Orleans (SUNO) | Virginia State University
The Initiative was conceived to help raise awareness about the disproportionate impact of climate change on marginalized communities and to develop HBCU students as leaders and advocates on issues related to environmental and climate justice policies, community resilience, adaptation and other major climate change topics—especially in vulnerable communities in the southern United States where the vast majority of HBCUs are located and where more billion-dollar disasters occur than the rest of the country combined.
The HBCU Climate Change Initiative is seeking funds to support a delegation of students and faculty mentors to participate in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties 21st convening (COP21) in Paris, France from November 30, 2015 through December 13, 2015. It is our desire to send one faculty mentor and two students representing each of the participating HBCUs to the in-person training in New Orleans and the conference in Paris. We are kindly requesting your assistance in meeting our goals
To date, the Initiative has a total of 22 HBCUs participating in its activities and is growing its numbers to include more schools each year in an effort to train the next generation of climate and environmental justice leaders. Since 2011, the Initiative has supported hundreds of HBCU faculty, students and leaders from climate-vulnerable communities participate in a number of important domestic and international gatherings including:
• 2011 – United Nations COP17, Durban, South Africa, December, Twelve (12) HBCU Delegates representing three (3) HBCUs attended the conference.
• 2012 – Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro, a six-person delegation represented the HBCU Climate Change Initiative at this Summit.
• 2013 – First Annual HBCU Student Climate Change Conference, New Orleans, LA, Conference Participants 102, One (1) Student Panel, Nine (9) Student Poster Presentations.
• 2014 – Second Annual HBCU Student Climate Change Conference, New Orleans, LA, Conference Participants 110, Three (3) Student Panels, Thirteen (13) Student Poster Presentations.
• 2014 – People’s Climate March, Teach-In and Youth Convergence – New York, NY September, HBCU Climate Change Initiative participants (105) representing ten (10) HBCUs, Gulf Coast Teach-In, Student Convergence Panel and Climate March.
• 2015 – More than a dozen HBCU Climate Change Initiative schools participated in the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of Jubilee Bridge Crossing and the “Change Is Gonna Come: Advancing an Environmental and Climate Justice Agenda in the South” Workshop, March.• 2015 – Third Annual HBCU Student Climate Change Conference, New Orleans, LA, Conference Participants 165, Five (5) Student Panels, Fourteen (14) Student Poster Presentations.
• 2015 – Gulf Coast Rising – Katrina 10 Week of Action and COP21 HBCU Delegate Training Climate Justice Convergence, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Katrina March & Second Line.
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HBCU Climate Change Initiative Partners
Alabama A&M University | Alabama State University | Claflin University | Dillard University | Fisk University | Florida A&M University | Grambling State University | Howard University | Huston-TiIlotson University | Lincoln University |Morehouse College | North Carolina A&T University | Savannah State University | Southern A&M University of Baton Rouge | Spelman College | Tennessee State University | Texas Southern University | Xavier University of Louisiana | Jackson State University | Morgan State University | Southern University New Orleans (SUNO) | Virginia State University
Organizer and beneficiary
Robert D. Bullard
Organizer
New Orleans, LA
Beverly Wright
Beneficiary
