Diaspora Voices: Protecting Our Oceans
“Diaspora Voices” is a collaborative initiative with a new focus on combatting the climate crisis, providing direct engagement between diaspora members and top government officials about challenges directly affecting their communities and creating opportunities to work with the U.S. Department of State and the International Organization for Migration to address them.
This first event of this year’s multi-part series aimed to address climate change and our oceans, highlighting current efforts by diaspora organizations to mitigate the harmful effects on communities. It included a panel discussion of diaspora changemakers, a presentation from Amazon Web Services' Open Data Team, remarks from the State Department's Special Representative for Global Partnerships, the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, and IOM's Head of Division for Migration, Environment, Climate Change, and Risk Reduction, along with amore in-depth conversation about diaspora participation in COP27.
To learn more about the series, visit www.state.gov/diaspora-voices or https://www.idiaspora.org/en/projects...