Community Voices

This past summer, I had the incredible opportunity to work as a Sustainable Infrastructure Fellow with CDP’s Climate Finance team under their Cities, States, and Regions (CSTaR) division. For those unfamiliar, CDP is a global non-profit organization that has revolutionized environmental reporting. CDP has the world’s largest, most comprehensive set of environmental data, which serves as a powerful tool for driving informed climate action among companies, cities, states, and public authorities worldwide. The climate finance team focuses on finance trends for a range of CSTaR sustainable infrastructure projects, including transportation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, waste management, and water management.

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I was assigned to work with the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly, which was quite relevant to my field of study at The Fletcher School: international development and environmental policy. On a daily basis, I supported Second Secretary Ms. Aleena Majeed (who leads Second Committee negotiations for Pakistan) in conducting research and assisting in drafting speeches, reports, and policy briefs for diplomatic use related to climate finance, just clean energy transition, AI governance, and finance for sustainable development.

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This past summer, I participated in a ten-week internship with the Department of Defense's (DOD) Environmental Security Division (J445) at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), the oldest and largest of the unified combatant commands. USINDOPACOM is responsible for overseeing all U.S. military operations in the Indo-Pacific region, an area that spans over half of the Earth's surface. This experience provided me with invaluable insights into the intersection of environmental sustainability and national security.

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