Cop 21: Make it work!
Une simulation de COP21 à Paris

Led by two eminent professors (Bruno Latour and Laurence Tubiana), Sciences Po has decided to launch COP21: Make it Work. Through several ambitious projects, this initiative aims to help communities of students and researchers, as well as society in general, both in France and abroad, to address climate change and its related geopolitical issues.It allows students from all parts of the world to experience simulated negotiations and give new life to the spirit of challenging preconceptions and transforming practices.

As a key institution in the political, administrative and media spheres, Sciences Po will play the role of a hub. After the success of Copenhagen Rewind (COP RW), a 150-student simulation of COP15 organized by Sciences Po in June 2011, the institution organises a pre-enactment six months before the COP21 Paris Climate Conference. Looking to have an international outreach, Sciences Po has decided to open up this initiative to many establishments across the world. Thus, several partners such as the University of Sydney (Sydney), Tsinghua University (Beijing), the London School of Economics (London), Columbia University (New York) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels) have confirmed their intent on associating professors and students to COP21: Make it Work.

From the 29th until the 31st of May 2015, a delegation of students from the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney will travel to Paris to take part in the Make it Work climate change workshop. The four students will be joining 200 other students from 40 countries to take part in the event.

The 21^st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP21, will be held from November the 30^th to December the 11^th, 2015 in Paris, bringing together around 40,000 participants.

More information is available on the blog Paris Climat 2015: Make it Work.

Download the brochure and the program of COP21: Make it Work.