In collaboration with London's Natural History Museum, we helped 60 international students attend the 2007 International Student Summit, 'Greening Cities'. Here they heard from scientists, policy-makers and politicians, while sharing views with UK students.

Working together for change
Climate change is a global issue and an important area of our work. The Summit gives us an opportunity to realise this: work with others on advancing the debate and enabling international students to attend.

Global involvement
This year, we gave 60 internationals students the opportunity to hear from scientists, policy-makers and politicians (including Ken Livingstone) about different aspects of ‘greening’ cities. They also had the chance to share their views with 130 UK students . We supported students from Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Kuwait, Libya, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Thailand, United Arab Emirates.

What the summit achieves
The summit built on the huge success of last year’s event, which focused on climate change as an urgent global problem. As a result of last year's summit, an accord publication was delivered by students to 10 Downing Street and to Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London. This year, the summit focused on creating a more sustainable urban environment.

What happened?
Each afternoon will end with a discussion where a panel of experts will take questions from the delegates and from online participants. Motions were proposed and votes cast. The results will now be presented to the UK and local governments.

Keep up to date with the debate
The summit was webcast live on the Natural History Museum's website, so you could be a part of the global audience, and listen to the leading experts and desicion-makers taking part. You can read about the speakers at this year's event as the programme is available online. Each day, the museum also published a daily report, capturing the day's discussions and recording a selection of interviews with some of the students about their views on climate change and their participation in the summit.

How you can get involved
You can view the debate on the Natural History Museum's website. A selection of questions submitted online were put to the speakers each afternoon.

Find out more about our work in science
We've been advancing the climate debate for the past two years, with our ZeroCarbonCity campaign. We also support science innovations, and help to communicate science solutions, with our 'cubed' webzine.