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CEMS Magazine | april 2013
Network events
From Barcelona to Rio Real life lessons from simulation games ____
Johannes Schwarzer – oikos Ph.D. Fellow, University of St.Gallen
Just weeks before the Rio+20 “Earth Summit 2012” in June of last year, 52 students from 5 CEMS schools had the opportunity to step into negotiators’ shoes during the 4th CEMS Model UNFCCC Climate Change Strategy Role Play, simulating a two-day UN summit on 17-18 May 2012 at ESADE Barcelona. The simulation was part of a course that was offered throughout the semester at the 5 respective schools ____
____ When student delegates from the uni-
versities of Budapest, Cologne, St.Gallen, Warsaw and ESADE Barcelona first met for an informal dinner in a picturesque beach restaurant in Barcelona, a cheerful atmosphere prevailed. The delegates’ positions had been elaborated during the preparatory process in the first phase of
the course and participants were generally confident that they would successfully carry out the challenging task of negotiating an outcome document outlining the roadmap for dealing with climate change mitigation, adaptation and emissions trading on a global level. But upon more careful investigation by oikos Student Reporters,