2000

• December: US Youth Climate Summit in the Hague, Netherlands

225 college students from around the United States joined a half dozen students from Africa for a summit at COP 6, the sixth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The summit was organized by Ozone Action and Greenpeace. Students were integral in successfully lobbying to remove nuclear power credits from Kyoto Protocol and organized a series of actions throughout the conference.