Students Have A Seat At Bali Climate Talks

Sure, you can study the Kyoto Protocol negotiations in that lecture hall across the quad, but what if you had a chance to be part of them?

This news story says quite a few students are doing just that right now in Bali, where United Nations delegates are meeting on Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism. The CDM, depending on your viewpoint, is either a novel means to an end or a giant loophole in the effort to curb pollution worldwide. The student blog reporting from Bali captures these angles, and more.

According to the story, some 20 students from Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies are in attendance, as well as a contingent from SustainUS, a student network that promotes sustainable development. You can meet the SustainUS delegation here or follow their progress on the student-run environmental blog "It's Getting Hot In Here". Yale's green blog, which regularly chronicles environmental research at the university, is also writing heavily from Bali.