GZA member Dr. Orr Karassin — a GZA representative on the KKL board of directors — led the KKL-JNF delegation to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change. In 2007 she headed the KKL delegation to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali. In preparation for the conference in Copenhagen, Orr spearheaded the KKL position paper and successfully shepherded it through KKL approval.

You can read the position paper here:

KKL-JNF Position Paper on the Agenda of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

And Orr's dispatches from Copenhagen are available here:

• Hopenhagen: A City in a Cloak of Hope
• KKL-JNF Sharing Knowledge about Adaptation to Global Warming
• The Overlooked Aspect of the Copenhagen Conference: The Critical Need to Prepare for Climate Change
• The Future of the Globe after COP15