Climate Change Fellowship Opportunity! 

Baruch College and the International Center Announce the U.S. Winter 2012 Cohort!

The Climate Change Professional Fellows Program funded by the US department of State, is currently seeking applicants for its second round of US fellows. The program is funded by US State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, as one division of its five concentration areas— climate change, education to employment, food security, global health, and the legislative process. Baruch College and the International Center are responsible for completing three successful cohorts, totaling thirty participating fellows thus far. Past fellows have spanned a wide variety of professions encompassing the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

The Professional Fellows program facilitated by Baruch College and the International Center, functions primarily as a vehicle for international knowledge sharing. It enables young climate change professionals from the U.S. and four Asian-Pacific countries to travel internationally, and explore the science, impact, adaption, mitigation, and actions related to climate change. Additionally, participation serves as a tremendous opportunity for networking with professionals not only from your immediate division, but also across the twenty-five countries and five areas of concentration included in the full scale program.

During an approximate three-week period in the summer of 2011, and now again in the winter of 2012, U.S. Fellows travel to the East Asian and Pacific Region (Summer 2011: Australia and China; Winter 2012: Indonesia and Japan).The Winter Cohort will consist of eight U.S. Fellows. Four of whom will travel to Indonesia, while the other four travel to Japan. If you are, or know a young U.S. professional in the broad field of climate change who might be interested in visiting Japan or Indonesia, please visit the Winter Cohort page located on the Baruch College website for an application and further details.