Thirty Stanford undergraduates traveled to Paris for the historic COP21 international climate change negotiations and came back with stories to share. In preparation for the trip, the students enrolled in a fall-quarter course, International Climate Negotiations: Unpacking the Road to Paris.

The course, offered by the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the School of Engineering, was open to students from all disciplines and levels. It covered the basics of climate science and the history of climate negotiations, as well as background on elements of the negotiations, such as carbon markets, transparency and emissions accounting, finance for climate adaptation, and the perspectives of indigenous populations.