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“Our Children’s Trust: Youth Activism & the Legal Right to a Stable Climate”

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On Wednesday, February 6th, 2019, the University of Florida will host a conversation with youth activists and legal and climate science experts defending the rights of all Floridians to a stable climate. The event, which will take place in Ocora (Main Room) of Pugh Hall from 6 to 8 PM, will feature:

Isaac Augspurg & Oscar Psychas

Guy M. Burns, Managing Partner, Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel and Burns, LLP

Andrea Dutton, Assoc. Professor of Geology, University of Florida

Andrea Rodgers, Senior Staff Attorney, Our Children’s Trust

Since 2011, the nonprofit organization Our Children’s Trust has supported youth around the United States in bringing legal action in the courts and state administrative agencies to advance science-based climate recovery action at the state and federal levels. Click here to read more about their work. 

Location of Event & Parking

Pugh Hall (296 Buckman Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611) is centrally located on the UF campus. The most convenient parking for this event is at the O’Connell Center parking lot (250 Gale Lemerand Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611), where parking is free after 3:30 PM, Monday through Frid

For more information, see http://imagining-climate.clas.ufl.edu, or contact Terry Harpold (tharpold@ufl.edu ) or Andrea Medina (andream@ufl.edu ).