A student and a professor at UNC will talk about their experiences at the recent climate change conference in Copenhagen in a lecture next week.

Victor Flatt, the Tom and Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law in the School of Law, and Mike Mian, a junior, will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the FedEx Global Education Center, at the corner of McCauley and Pittsboro streets. Limited parking is available in the deck under the center.

Flatt collaborated with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University in presenting information at the United National Climate Change Conference last December. He also represented the new Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation and Resources (CLEAR) at the law school.

Flatt's report covered how carbon markets from a cap-and-trade system will work. He supports the concept of the carbon market but acknowledges that it will be necessary to have a structured system in place for the market in order to achieve the environmental goals of greenhouse gas reduction.

Mian, who is majoring in political science and interdisciplinary studies, with a minor in entrepreneurship, is studying the role of the Obama administration in changing the political landscape on climate change.

The talk will be free to the public. For more information, call 962-2435.