Applications are now available for SustainUS’s Agents of Change delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, November 29-December 10.
Applicants must be 18-26 years old at the start of the negotiations, and must be either U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or have been studying or working in the United States for at least six months at the time of application.
Selected applicants will join a diverse delegation of youth, including those both familiar with and new to the youth climate movement; from across the United States and beyond; including young scientists and engineers, policy specialists, grassroots activists, media and communications specialists; students, young professionals, and community volunteers; and more. We have limited, need-based scholarship money for youth from climate change-impacted communities (requires separate application, see link below).
Full delegation details and application materials are available at http://www.sustainus.org/COP16
Applications are due by 5 p.m. EDT on June 4th to agents@sustainus.org
** Please help to ensure that all eligible youth have the opportunity to apply by forwarding this announcement where appropriate **
About the Author
Kyle Gracey is a Research Scientist with the Global Footprint Network. He is the immediate past Chair and a Board Director of SustainUS: U.S. Youth for Sustainable Development, and delegate to more than 10 United Nations negotiations on climate, social development, and sustainable development. He was recently an Energy and Climate Fellow at Worldwatch, and continues to work on Worldwatch's efforts around the 2012 Sustainable Development Conference, Rio 20. He also recently worked in the Speechwriting office for U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden. He was a consultant with the Gade Environmental Group. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with B.S. degrees in Ecological Economics and Biochemistry/Biophysics, where he is their only Truman Scholarship recipient, and from the University of Chicago with an M.S. in the Physical Sciences Division and Harris Public Policy School, where he was a Harris Fellow. He also investigated international development and environment issues at The American University in Washington, DC and in Brazil, Israel, Iceland, and the United Arab Emirates. Kyle has worked in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation as an Environmental Policy Analyst analyzing biofuels, hydrogen, congestion, and air quality, and managing research grants, and as an International Economist Graduate Intern in the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs, and was an Education Docent at the National Aquarium. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the youth science & technology policy organization Student Pugwash USA, where he was recently named its Vice President, and on the Board of the Working Group on Ecological Economics and Sustainability Science in the Society for Conservation Biology. He is a Life Member of the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. He has written for or been interviewed by over 50 media outlets.
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