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Mock COP27

20 Jan 2023

As part of the UCC 2022 October Open Day and, in line with UCC’s steadfast commitment to leave no one behind, the Student Recruitment Office, with the collaboration of the Office of Sustainability and Climate Action, UCC’s Environmental Research Institute (ERI), Student Societies and UCC’s Students’ Union, organised a Mock COP27 (a simulation of the United Nations’ Framework Convention for Climate Change) for pre-entry students. It was designed to increase their awareness of what would be discussed at COP27 in Egypt and attendees were really engaged and surprised at how difficult it was to reach agreements on the difficult topic of carbon emission targets.

Aligned with the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, a specially commissioned graphic harvest was created by visual scribe Hazel Hurley, and it captured the wonderful atmosphere and highlights of the event where there were almost 70 senior cycle delegates from all over Ireland in attendance. It even included an impromptu activist protest from the Co-Op society members! 

The original graphic harvest can be viewed in the Iris Ashley Cummins building, close to the Sustainable Futures Lab, and a copy of the graphic harvest was also on display in the Hub and is now permanently on display in the Ellen Hutchins Building, home to the ERI.