Alpha Epsilon Lambda

What should really scare you this Halloween? Climate Change!

University students and community members are invited to participate in a virtual conference being held Sunday, October 31 at 11am-3pm on Zoom. UF graduate student Rock Aboujaoude will speak live from the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. A wide range of other speakers will be featured. The half-day conference is followed by daily briefings at 7pm from the UN COP26.

The UF Agricultural Economics Club (Amanda Heinzmann, President) stepped up to join with Campus Climate Corps in hosting this event that is open to university students and the general public statewide.

You can register to be part of this Zoom event at www.CampusClimateCorps.org

To learn more about the virtual conference and the UN conference in Scotland, check out the Florida Independent Alligator article at https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/10/uf-climate-conference

Sponsors of the UF virtual conference include Alpha Epsilon Lambda (the national graduate student honor society), UF-IFAS CALS Office of the Dean, Solar Impact (Gainesville solar energy company), and the Florida Climate Institute.

Campus Climate Corps Campus Climate Corps (CCC) is a joint effort of university student volunteers working with Florida-based non-profit organizations Intelligentsia International and Alpha Epsilon Lambda to help U.S. student organizations address the issue of climate change.

What are you doing about the CLIMATE CRISIS?

Students and the general public are invited to participate in the free Campus Climate Corps Conference coming to you live from the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, and with experts and activists from the University of Florida in Gainesville. The Zoom/Facebook and YouTube events begin on Sunday, October 31 at 11am Eastern. You can register at www.CampusClimateCorps.org to receive the Zoom access links or you can simply tune in to our YouTube channel and page to watch and comment on Sunday.

Sunday’s half-day conference ends at 3pm but is followed at 7pm by the first of 13, one-hour-long, daily briefings and discussions live from Glasgow hosted by UF graduate student Rock Aboujaoude, Jr. These daily events summaries and conversations will cover a wide range of events at the annual UN conference.

The Zoom meeting and Facebook/YouTube streams are free and open to the public.

Featured in Sunday’s conference are
- UF graduate student Rock Aboujaoude, Jr. live in Glasgow
- The Florida Climate Institute Student Fellows
- Expert faculty from the University of Florida
- Extinction Rebellion’s Nicholas Vazquez & Donald Zepeda

The Glasgow daily briefings will include interviews with a range of experts and leaders attending the UN climate conference, COP26.

Campus Climate Corps Campus Climate Corps (CCC) is a joint effort of university student volunteers working with Florida-based non-profit organizations Intelligentsia International and Alpha Epsilon Lambda to help U.S. student organizations address the issue of climate change.