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Member of Policy Working Group, Canadian Youth Delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland |
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Female, 23
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Ithaca, New York |
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Canadian
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Canada
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English
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THEA WHITMAN (Nova Scotia) - Thea grew up making forts in the woods, reading, and playing with her brother and sisters. These first forays into environmentalism and sustainability, bolstered by a healthy interest in the world, led her to study environmental biology at Queen's University. While there and during a year-long exchange to the University of Leeds, U.K., she was involved with various environmental groups, including lobbying for climate action with the U.K. youth group People and Planet and working with an amazing group of people as deputy sustainability officer last year at Queen's. Currently, she is doing graduate research at Cornell University, studying biochar (a carbon-based soil fertility amendment / bioenergy product / carbon sequestration mechanism) and hopes to ultimately work in policy and academia. She is excited to go to Poznan because she is very worried about the future and thinks that it is important that we combine our rights as primary stakeholders (youth) in the climate crisis with our privileges as free and relatively wealthy citizens in Canada to speak out and fight for a just and stable future. While there, she hopes to push the country's negotiators to work more productively with other nations to commit to hard and progressive targets and to accurately represent the wishes of Canadians and, in particular, young people during climate negotiations. She also hopes to enhance her understanding of the negotiation processes in order to increase their accessibility to youth and influence decision-makers more effectively.
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