Copenhagen conference on climate change a ‘roller coaster’ experience for Transylvania senior
The two weeks that Transylvania University student Lauralee Crain spent as a delegate to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last month was an “emotional roller coaster” that she won’t soon forget.
“I was excited, frustrated, built up and torn down,” said Crain, a senior from Flemingsburg and one of only 18 youth leaders nationwide chosen to represent the Sierra Student Coalition at the conference Dec. 7-18.
But, she added, “I see the experience as something that has changed me forever.”
The conference, attended by many of the world’s top leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, was the much-anticipated attempt to forge agreement among industrialized nations to curb emissions of pollutants and help developing nations curtail their greenhouse gas emissions.