{"id":555,"date":"2018-12-04T01:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/?p=555"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:39:18","slug":"day-1-meeting-with-u-s-delegate-swarthmore-professor-liz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2018\/12\/04\/day-1-meeting-with-u-s-delegate-swarthmore-professor-liz\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 &#8212; Meeting with U.S. Delegate &#038; Swarthmore Professor Liz!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an incredibly busy, bustling, and\u00a0exciting first day! While most of\u00a0the day was spent getting our bearings, we had the privilege of having lunch with one of the U.S.&#8217; newest delegation members &#8212; and one of our very own &#8212; Liz Nichols. It was such a unique opportunity to hear about the conference from an insider&#8217;s perspective! Liz also shared some extremely heartening\u00a0information\u00a0with us regarding the U.S.&#8217; presence at the negotiations; despite the fact that Trump has communicated his intention to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement in 2020, Liz explained how the delegates present at this COP are the same delegates who helped to craft the Paris Agreement at COP 21, and who have worked to solidify and implement this Agreement at subsequent COPs. Despite the position of the president, the U.S. delegates present at these meetings are deeply committed to taking meaningful action to combat climate change, helping to both preserve the U.S.&#8217; reputation on the international stage and to address this urgent global crisis. Here&#8217;s to a bit of a bright spot for a more hopeful future!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shana<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/424e628b-7741-4a31-9c42-76c3282c3eae-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-575\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-575 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/424e628b-7741-4a31-9c42-76c3282c3eae-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"424e628b-7741-4a31-9c42-76c3282c3eae\" width=\"409\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/424e628b-7741-4a31-9c42-76c3282c3eae-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/424e628b-7741-4a31-9c42-76c3282c3eae-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/424e628b-7741-4a31-9c42-76c3282c3eae-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/424e628b-7741-4a31-9c42-76c3282c3eae-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an incredibly busy, bustling, and\u00a0exciting first day! While most of\u00a0the day was spent getting our bearings, we had the privilege of having lunch with one of the U.S.&#8217; newest delegation members &#8212; and one of our very own &#8212; Liz Nichols. It was such a unique opportunity to hear about the conference from an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2018\/12\/04\/day-1-meeting-with-u-s-delegate-swarthmore-professor-liz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 1 &#8212; Meeting with U.S. Delegate &#038; Swarthmore Professor Liz!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}