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Members of the Danish Ogaden community demonstrate outside the Bella Center, the venue of the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen Thursday Dec. 17, 2009, to draw attention to the environmental situation and the suffering of their people in Ogaden, Ethio

Among the thousands of people attending the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, which draws to a close this week, are several Vermonters. One is Marlboro College student Andrew Tanabe, who's studying international relations. Tanabe speaks with us this morning by a Skype phone link from Copenhagen. And he says his ticket to a first-hand look at the conference was punched by his involvement with a non-profit group working for sustainable development.

Tanabe speaks with VPR's Mitch Werlieb.

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