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Sixteen students from the University of
Minnesota will attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Mexico
at the end of the month.


      The students will attend the first week of the two-week
negotiations starting Nov. 29. They will blog from the event and
provide updates to the local media.


      Officials from governments all over the world will meet in
Cancun to thrash out cooperative agreements to deal with climate
change - although U.N. officials aren't expecting it to produce
anything legally binding.


      Seven of the students are enrolled in a climate change policy
course co-taught by state Sen. Ellen Anderson and state Rep. Kate
Knuth.


      All the students will discuss their experiences on Dec. 9, at
the university's Insitute on the Environment on the St. Paul
campus.

Sixteen students from the University of
Minnesota will attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Mexico
at the end of the month.


U of M sends 16 students to UN climate summit

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