What is the #Decarbonize Student Leadership Summit?
Led by the
Centre for Global Education, t
he #Decarbonize Student Leadership Summit
is a week-long education and leadership program that allows children ages 13-19 to learn about the economic, social, and environmental interconnections of climate change through hands-on experiences. Students from around the world come together to build skills in action, advocacy, and global citizenship. The #Decarbonize Summit empowers students as environmental leaders to best serve their homes, schools, and communities. The #Decarbonize Student Leadership Summit runs in parallel to COP (same place, same time). Students will attend COP events, turning their Summit learning into real advocacy opportunities.
What is COP?
COP stands for the Conference of Parties and is the annual UN Climate Change Conference that takes place in a different host city each year. The COP is the supreme decision-making body of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and assesses progress on combatting climate change.
What happens at COP?
COP meetings primarily revolve around negotiations and debates. The aim is to review progress towards the overall goal of the UNFCCC: to limit climate change. Sometimes, COP will result in new agreements and treaties, often with the goal of refining targets, agreeing rules or forming binding treaties, like the Kyoto Protocol.
Youth from around the world come together at the UN Climate Conference to grow their climate knowledge, develop their communication, collaboration, and public speaking skills, think about community and school action, and meet amazing people. By participating in the #Decarbonize Summit, students earn a certificate to include on school and award applications and their resumes. This is a rewarding leadership experience you’ll use for years to come!
Learning that lasts a lifetime. Action that creates a better world.
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About this Application
This application asks a few short questions about you & your reasons for wanting to attend the Summit.
You can download the questions below to read and think about. Then come back and copy them into your application.
- General Student Application Questions HERE *Everyone completes to attend the #Decarbonize Summit
- Global Lead Student Application Questions HERE *Additional questions for students who would like to represent their continent at the UN Climate Change Conference
What is the Daily Program?
Timelines
We know it is exceptionally hard to wait for news on acceptance to these types of programs! Notifications are sent to students in two rounds: (1) Emails of general selection will start in June and run until November, (2) Global Lead Selection will be made starting in October 2023 (exceptions to these timelines can be made, please email me with requests). Decisions on financial support will not occur until October.
Student applications will be accepted until Oct 31, 2023, and by invitation-only after that time. Please email sarah@takingitglobal.org with any questions.
