Good COP Bad COP 3
Model United Nations Conference 2024
It is a real honour to welcome you all to the 'Good COP Bad COP 3' conference in association with Engage with China. You will find all the latest information about the conference here.
Following on from the huge success of our second conference in February 2023, the next event is shaping up to be even bigger with students from a wide range of international schools expressing their interest already.
The COP28 climate change summit will take place in November and December 2023 and is hosted by the United Arab Emirates. Our conference will be in response to the issues that will be discussed here and in previous COP summits.
If you wish to take part or if you have any questions about the event or the planned resolutions, then please contact the organisation team through the Contact Us page and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
The Grange School in association with 
This is the third international climate-based conference we have held and we are really looking forward to growing on our experience from previous years. We are always thrilled to see so much interest from both domestic and international schools and we are confident that this year's event will attract schools from an even wider demographic. The Grange School's students have traditionally always held an interest in Model United Nations debating and many have attended and taken part in prestigious conferences. We feel it is only right to offer the same opportunities to other schools and through our partnership with Engage with China and by using online conference technology this is now possible.
We hope, with the help of all delegates that our next conference will be as much of a success as in previous years – not just stimulating discussion on climate change and environmental issues but also working together to bolster relations and to encourage cooperation and friendship between delegates of different nations.
President of the Conference – Remi Livesey
It is my esteemed privilege to welcome you to Good COP Bad COP3, I am extremely excited to be head of this conference, and I am thoroughly looking forward to all of the incredible debating I know shall take place. I am especially interested in this conference as I have always been interested in the climate and how we can preserve it in a way that is beneficial to all. Outside of MUN, I am a keen long-distance runner and rower along with playing the Saxophone and Euphonium.
Vice President – Theo Innes
It is a great privilege to welcome you as Vice President to Good Cop Bad Cop3. I live in England, close to Manchester – the world’s first industrial city. As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, the United Kingdom has been a key contributor to climate change. Therefore, I personally feel a moral responsibility to help tackle our climate crisis.
I attend The Grange School in Cheshire and I would like to pursue a career in medicine. Outside the classroom, I enjoy performing music and drama, as well as participating in a variety of sports, in particular rugby, football, tennis and throwing the javelin.
I look forward to seeing you all virtually in January.
Conference Director – Richard Higgins
Dear Delegates
My name is Mr Richard Higgins and offer a warm welcome to you on behalf of all students and staff from the Grange School. We are delighted to be hosting our third international student conference alongside Engage with China. I run the Model United Nations society at The Grange School and enjoy taking students to MUN conferences around the North West of England. I also coach basketball, volleyball and the school debating teams. I am Head of Computing at The Grange and have lost count of the number of MUN conferences I have taken students to over the last 14 years. However, it is an enormous privilege to host a conference for other schools. Outside of the classroom I enjoy photography and playing backgammon.
The Grange School strongly support environmental conservation and believe that we can all, as individuals and countries, do much more to protect our world. COP is the perfect chance to demonstrate this. We think that we need to, even if it is just in theory, try and find a way to combat these issues that affect us all.
For our resolutions we will discuss and think about a wide range of practical solutions to these environmental issues. Last year we focused on and discussed carbon tax and incentives against the use of coal and other fossil fuels. Our aim is to come to some form of agreement on what is the best ways of reducing the threat of climate change during this conference and we are keen to hear what the delegates propose.
Dame Caroline Wilson DCMG is the current British Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, a post she assumed in October 2020. Caroline joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 1995 after qualifying as a Barrister-at-law in the UK
Caroline was Her Majesty’s Consul General to Hong Kong and Macao from 2012 to 2016 before returning to London, to be appointed Europe Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, a role she held from 2016 to 2019. Caroline is fluent in Mandarin and her Chinese name is 吴若兰. (Wu Ruo Lan) Climate Change and education are a focus of Caroline’s work on the UK-China relationship.
Minister Counsellor for Education, Embassy of People Republic of China in the UK
Tony is Chief Operating Officer at ACS Clothing Limited (see https://www.acsclothing.co.uk)
Tony joined ACS in 2006. Throughout this period, Tony has led the company’s operations through the execution of the long-term growth strategy. Tony has driven operational alignment and effectiveness across the business, both in the UK, and in the US to exit.
Tony has held a variety of senior roles in third-party logistics companies, and in-house operations. Tony graduated with a BEng (Hons) in Engineering in 1996 and followed this with an MSc in Logistics and an MBA at Strathclyde Business School in 2013. He was awarded an Honorary DBA in 2022.
George works as Director of Policy & Advocacy at Eco Age (https://eco-age.com/) running the organization’s work on pushing for the equitable phase out of fossil fuels from fashion. Previously he was with the Changing Markets Foundation, a Dutch non-profit formed to accelerate solutions to sustainability challenges by leveraging the power of markets, where he ran several hard-hitting corporate investigations pushing for accountability and advocating for legislative change. He led the inception of the Fossil Fashion campaign, exposing the industry’s environmentally disastrous reliance on fossil fuels during the climate crisis as well as the organisation’s greenwash.com project and plastics campaign. Prior to Changing Markets George has worked across the civil society sector with a focus on strategic communications, working for Forum for the Future, for Beijing-based philanthropic advisors, Charitarian, and for leading digital agency, Jellyfish. George is also an advisory board member of the Conscious Advertising Network.
Director Service Growth Solutions - Vestas Wind Systems. Julian has over 15 years of dedicated experience in the wind industry with Vestas, specializing in Wind Turbine Operation and Maintenance Sales across Northern Europe. Currently serving as the Head of Vestas Plant and Energy Solutions, Julian plays a pivotal role in developing adjacent services in order to support the company towards sustainable and efficient energy solutions and driving the energy transition.
Before venturing into the wind sector, Julian worked in the aerospace industry with Rolls-Royce Aero Engine Sales where he lived and worked in South Asia, Africa and USA.
Please find the delegate handbook here: Model UN Climate Change Event Delegate Handbook
This handbook provides the agenda and critical information you need to prepare for and participate in the 2024 Good COP Bad COP Conference.
We're proud to be working in collaboration with 'Engage with China' to bring you this conference.
Resolutions
There will be six resolutions debated during the course of the conference this year. Each will be based on the outcomes of COP28, due to be held in the United Arab Emirates in November 2023.
Advisors Briefing Video
Key information
Click to watch the edited highlights reel from last year's Good COP, Bad COP Conference: 2022 Conference Highlights
Download the transcript of the edited conference highlights: 2022 Conference Edited Transcript
Students Will and Alex have developed a helpful 'Guide to Debating' workshop. This is a useful resource for other schools joining us online at the upcoming 'Good COP, Bad COP' in January and would like to learn a little more about the MUN conference debating format:
Click here to download the transcript
Click here to download the 'Deforestation resolution' debate
Click here to download the 'Deforestation briefing paper' used in the referred to in the workshop.
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