Fellows & Editors
Susan Phillips
- Trip:
- COP22
- Affiliation:
- WHYY/NPR
- Country:
- Morocco
- Year:
- 2016
Susan Phillips is a reporter for NPR member station WHYY and StateImpact Pennsylvania, a public radio project that covers energy and environment. In 2013 she won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact and WHYY. During the 2013/2014 academic year Phillips studied climate change, geology and environmental law as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University. Her work has appeared on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Here and Now, and she is a member of NPR’s collaborative coverage team for energy, environment and climate change.
Stories
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Pennsylvania academics find inspiration at climate conference
The climate change conference in Morrocco ended over the weekend with an urgent message to president-elect Donald Trump – join the battle against global warming or risk contributing to catastrophe and moral...
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With Trump heading to the White House, global climate activists look for hope in US cities and state
The US delegation was heading into the UN climate summit two weeks ago as rock stars to many of the attendees gathering in Marrakech, Morocco. After all, it was the US that...
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U.S. cities and states poised to take on new role in climate diplomacy
A gathering of about 200 nations working to combat climate change wrapped up on Friday in Morocco with a call to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to join the fight against global warming....
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As Marrakech Climate Talks End, Worries Remain About U.S. Pullout
This month's Marrakech Climate Change Conference, the first major meeting to follow a landmark climate agreement last year in Paris, had been billed as a gathering of "action." But a day...
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United State’s involvement in Paris Agreement is top concern at the COP22 climate change conference
Concerns about the United States’ involvement in combatting climate change are echoing worldwide as the United Nations conference on climate change continues through Friday. Some 200 nations are represented at the COP22...
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Secretary of State John Kerry says market forces will drive U.S. to meet Paris goals
Speaking at the United Nations climate change conference in Morocco on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry struck a defiantly optimistic tone about the continued U.S. role in reducing global emissions....
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Ban Ki-moon optimistic Trump will change his mind on climate
United Nations Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon says he’s optimistic that president-elect Donald Trump can be convinced of the urgency to act on climate change. Ban spoke at a gathering of almost 200...
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Trump’s election puts U.S. climate delegation in tough spot
The election of Donald Trump has created uncertainty among delegates at the United Nations climate talks taking place right now in Marrakech, Morocco. President-elect Trump has called climate change a hoax, and...
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2016 stacking up to be hottest year on record
It’s another record breaking year for global warming. 2016 is expected to surpass temperature records broken last year, according to the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization, which announced its...
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Climate Momentum Will Continue: US Envoy on Trump Vote
The global drive to stave off disastrous global warming will continue regardless of who heads the US administration, Washington's top climate envoy said Monday on the election of climate change denier...
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Trump victory casts a shadow on global climate talks in Morocco
It’s hard to find a corner of the globe where the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the U.S. presidential election aren’t reverberating. They...
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Climate geeks in Morocco are ‘with her’
Marrakech’s old walled city seems a long way from the battleground states that will determine the next president of the United States. But on Election Day in the US, thousands...
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