Tag: Poster 166

The Environmental Integrity Group: Each Country’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution Commitments

Presenter(s): Barbara Lombardi − Business

Faculty Mentor(s): Ronald Mitchell

Poster 166

Research Area: Policy

This research will explore the Environmental Integrity negotiating Group’s position on climate change and how that aligns with the five individual country’s stances. The primary research question is: despite the fact that Mexico, South Korea, Lichtenstein, Monaco, and Switzerland belong to the same negotiating group, did each country make the same Intended Nationally Determined Contribution commitments? The position of the Environmental Integrity Group will be examined and compared to each individual country’s previous activities, Greenhouse Gas emissions, and policy implementations. Primary research suggests that these countries have different emission patterns and mitigation targets. These five country’s all agreed to be apart of a common group adopting the same values, but do they individually all end up making the same individual contributions? Each country’s vulnerability to climate change may play a vital role in their decision to form a group. These questions are important to answer because if these vastly different country’s are able to agree on solutions to global warming, then possibly all country’s can reach an agreement to make a significant impact on reversing climate change.

Fundamentally F****d: America’s Racially Disparate Healthcare System

Presenter(s): Alexis Blaschka

Co Presenter(s): Gabby George

Faculty Mentor(s): Noah Glusman

Poster 166

Session: Social Activism ARC

This project stems from the treatment, and lack thereof, of undocumented individuals in the United States, with a focus on the quality of healthcare treatment, access, and constitutionality of this issue. Furthermore, there will be a focus on these guidelines and the morality behind it. This investigation will cover the disparate treatment of undocumented citizens in regards to healthcare; this marginalised demographic receives less than adequate care in medical facilities, as compared to their documented counterparts. There are myriad vulnerabilities that dictate the extent to which undocumented citizens suffer at the hands of the American healthcare system. The procedures for discovering the disparities within the healthcare system consisted of searching online for reliable sources. Many sources come from prestigious schools or peer- reviewed journals. There is a plethora of media that has been uncovered, from websites to videos, each including a different aspect of these healthcare disparities. There are two witnesses who have experienced ill medical treatment/advising due to their immigrant-citizen status. As citizens of California they are entitled to medi-Cal insurance and received no compensation or accurate treatment as diagnosed cancer patients. There is also have statistical evidence of racial/ethnic discrimination in most medical facilities.The importance of this topic lies in the unfortunate mistreatment of underrepresented and marginalized groups all across the nation. This is relevant given that the United States currently has a highly unaffordable health care system that very few are able to access, as well clear racial disparities being integrated into its medical institutions.