Students from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS) recently had the extraordinary opportunity to attend the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, where global leaders and climate experts gathered to tackle the urgent challenges posed by climate change. For Zach Slotkin (MSFS’25), a student in the Walsh School of Foreign Service with a concentration in Science, Technology, and International Affairs (STIA), attending COP29 in Baku was a pivotal experience that merged his academic pursuits with firsthand exposure to global climate negotiations.