From Classroom to Global Stage: Northeastern Students Present Research at Leading United Nations Conference

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In a first for Northeastern University’s School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs, six students traveled to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) annual meeting, one of the premier gatherings for scholars and practitioners of global governance. The delegation consisted of three PhD candidates (Rong Bao, Olga Skaredina, and Nicole Vandale) two master's students (Wyatt Mattaway and Sophia McMonagle) and one undergraduate student (Maya Krattli). Students spoke on various panels, presenting original research to chairs, discussants, and audience members. Four students formed their own panel on the Environmental Conventions Index— a flagship project carried out by the Northeastern University Global Environmental Governance Project team. The panel examined how four iconic international environmental agreements were ratified, implemented, and have driven impact— a full “life cycle” of multilateral environmental agreements. This points to the center of current debates in both academic works and professional practices about whether international environmental commitments actually translate into results and how these lessons inform designs of future agreements, such as the ongoing global plastics negotiations. The panel's discussant was Stefan Tschauko, a UN communications researcher at Columbia University, whose feedback will pave the way for future research.  

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