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This summer, my role as Sustainable Infrastructure Fellow for the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) imparted three related lessons. First, climate change is already a salient and urgent reality at the local level around the world. Second, viable technology exists to prevent the most severe dangers of climate change, but financial innovation is required to scale these existing opportunities. Third, data is 21st century currency.
Read MoreBiodiversity provides many ecosystem services which are often taken for granted from cultural services such as beauty and tourism, to regulating services such as raw materials and food, even including habitat services such as carbon sequestration and the prevention of erosion. Since its establishment in 1992, the Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity has worked to conserve global biodiversity, ensure its sustainable use, and share in its benefits, including the transfer of relevant technologies.
This summer, I had the opportunity to further this mission as a Program Support Intern to the Planning, Monitoring, Reporting, and Review (PMRR) Unit of the Secretariat.
Read MoreThis summer, I joined The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) Global Agriculture and Food Systems Policy team during a critical window for shaping how public and private finance supports land use, food systems, and biodiversity goals.
Read MoreUNOC3, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, was the largest UN event ever focused on the ocean. It brought together 175 UN Member States, 64 Heads of State and Government, 28 Heads of UN, intergovernmental and international organizations, 115 ministers, 12,000 delegates, and more than 130,000 visitors. Over 1,000 parallel events unfolded across venues from the Blue Zone to the Whale, ranging from high-level dialogues and negotiations to booths and exhibitions featuring NGOs, private sector actors, Indigenous leaders, artists, and scientists.
Read MoreThe 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), the largest UN event ever focused on protecting the ocean, was a milestone for advancing Sustainable Development Goal 14. Expectations were high, and for good reason, as many saw it as a turning point for global ocean action leading up to 2030.
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