Before explaining the details about Training of Trainers (TOT) on simulation of climate change negotiations let me first throw a light on Conference of Parties (COP) and COP in My City project.

Cop In My City (CIMC) launched in 2013 is an ambitious project coordinated by CliMates, an international think-and-do tank bringing student solutions to climate change. CIMC aims to bridge the gap between climate change negotiations also known as Conference of Parties (COP) and young people around the world. Working as CIMC leader from Nepal for past 3 years, I am serving as Asia Regional Officer in 2016. CIMC comprises of 3 common but flexible phases. Firstly CIMC leaders are trained with different tools like webinars, powerpoints, toolkits etc. to understand the history and achievements of climate negotiations so far. Then, CIMC leaders conduct simulations of international climate negotiations aka Conference of Parties (COP) in their local community. During simulation participants negotiate until they reach a persuasive agreement. The second phase is mobilization CIMC leaders engage young people from their community and/or public for action on climate change. Actions may be reforestation, wetland conservation, cleanliness drive and so on. Debriefing is the third phase, where CIMC leaders submit debriefing forms to regional officer explaining their experience and outcomes of CIMC. The central team makes best use of Social Networking sites like Facebook, twitter to widespread the results of CIMC globally. In 2015, 3500 youths were trained with 110 simulations in 25 countries around the world. Thus, CIMC is a multidimensional and multicultural initiative for inspiring youths in local climate action and building alliance of global change makers.

As a Cop In My City Asia Regional Officer, I aspire to encourage more and more youths in taking concrete local climate action and creating a global network of change makers. For this reason I had planned to visit different cities of my country Nepal to train the interested Cop Leaders on how to run simulations in their community. So, on 4th April, 2016 I kick started first TOT at Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU), Rampur Nepal where about 42 undergraduate students of different faculty including Agriculture science, environmental science, journalism, forestry, social work, management etc. attended. In the training participants were guided on how and what to do as Cop Leader, the phases of Cop In My City and what are the recent progresses in universal climate change negotiations. Assistant Professor from AFU Mr. Himal Luitel  shared his expression and commitment of support for the project in the university

Similarly, on 8th April I travelled to next city Bhairahawa around 5 hours public bus, to train students of Agriculture and Veterinary Science faculty. Around 35 youths attended the training with enthusiasm. It gives me immense pleasure to travel different places and interact with youths of diverse background, share my experience and motivate them to act towards sustainable future.

If anyone my mates in Tunza Eco- generation is interested in joining Cop In My City family as Cop Leader feel free to email at copinmycity@climates.fr As a concerned youth of this generation, it's our responsibility to save our mother earth and maintain intergenerational equity.