C-U Greenpeace delegate going to climate change summit

Champaign-Urbana will have a representative at the United Nations summit on climate change this week in Poland.

Drew Thomas, 24, who opened the new Greenpeace office in Urbana last May, is one of 14 Greenpeace USA organizers headed to talks sponsored by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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