The Keeling Curve Prize annually awards $250,000 to projects that display proven carbon uptake, drawdown, or sequestration efforts. Through their GWMP Sphere Program global network of people and projects dedicated to finding climate solutions, they connect individuals with sponsors, students with internships, and problems with solutions - creating an atmosphere of change.

Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, the Sphere came up with a fantastic Climate Constellations programme, with the goal of pairing students with organisations for an 8-10 week period, virtual, unpaid, full or part-time internship, as they had lost their summer internship positions.

We welcome Jolie Wasserman as the Marketing & Communications intern for Simoshi. In this role, Jolie will monitor several social media platforms and use creative marketing techniques to raise awareness about carbon finance and promote carbon credit sales. Jolie is currently an undergraduate at Cornell University where she is pursuing a B.S. degree in Environment & Sustainability in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She hopes to combine her interests in long-term sustainability, business, and finance by pursuing a career in the sustainable management and sustainable finance fields.

Jolie has also served as an intern for the past few years in the office of New York State Assemblywoman, Sandy Galef. In this capacity, she helped work on a plastic bag ban, which ultimately went into effect this past March. Additionally, Jolie is a researcher for Cornell University Sustainable Design’s Solar Panel Reboot project team. This summer, she will continue her work further investigating solar panel refurbishment techniques. In addition to these endeavors, Jolie is an accomplished flutist having performed at both Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Her involvement with the music community continues in college as a member of the Cornell University Wind Symphony.