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Clean Air–Cool Planet (CA-CP) has successfully worked with communities, campuses, and corporations to achieve millions of tons of greenhouse gas reductions. Experience shows that small investments made in getting initial, catalytic projects off the ground often leads to greater institutional commitment and long-term success in comprehensive climate leadership efforts. Yet it can often be difficult to allocate the resources necessary to get those projects completed.
In light of that reality, CA-CP has created its Youth Climate Training Fellowship, a competitive, prestigious program designed to pair outstanding students with challenging real-world opportunities to propel society toward a low-carbon future.
This program seeks highly qualified graduate and undergraduate students in fields such as environmental policy, economics, statistics, engineering, physical and biological sciences. Projects are challenging and in-depth, and may include creating or updating greenhouse gas inventories; conducting feasibility studies or implementing operational and process changes to reduce GHG emissions; creating and updating web-based tools and resources, or others identified by partner organizations.
Twice a year, CA-CP distributes a call through our network and works directly with our academic partners to find the best applicants for the projects. The application process is competitive, with candidates evaluated by a small Fellowship advisory committee.
We recruit Fellows enrolled in a college or university, and require an academic sponsor or reference for each Fellow. Where possible, we ask that course credits be awarded. In order to attract the highest-quality applicants and to enable students to take advantage of these opportunities regardless of their financial situation, interns are awarded competitive stipends, provided by CA-CP.
Fellows in each session will be expected to participate in three events:
- A half-day orientation session before beginning work;
- A “climate leadership training” day during the program term, where interns will have opportunity to talk with alumni of the program, experts and leaders in the field of climate change science, policy and solutions, and CACP staff in both formal and informal settings;
- A summative evaluation and feedback session (conducted by a third party) at the end of their placement.
These workshops and other post-fellowship communication mechanisms ensure that CA-CP Climate Fellows will belong to a network of passionate students and professionals, and will be able to collaborate and continue learning even after the project has ended.
- Propose a scope of work that will contribute to ghg management efforts at your organization(and ideally, provide an innovative or instructive model for others to emulate), and that will be achievable in roughly 300-350 work hours (single session, summer) or 650-700 work hours (double session; May-December)
- Identify a knowledgeable, accessible on-site supervisor who will be able to make your proposed project a priority. Also, provide either a place for the Fellow to work, or the capacity for remote work (e.g. PC or laptop, phone, etc.)
- Provide CA-CP with evaluative feedback on the student and the process, mid-summer and at the end of the project term.
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