Honing skills and delivering results in the fight against climate change
When it comes to supporting communities in becoming resilient to increasingly frequent climatic shocks, our role as UN Volunteers is just as important as any other. Teodora Traljic is a 23-year old Irish national who serves as a UN Youth Volunteer Climate Action Officer. She is assigned with the UN Environment and Climate Security Advisor to Somalia. Teodora’s assignment is one example of how young people and the power of their voice can have a huge impact in overcoming the challenges we face today, such as climate change.
I serve with the UN Environment and Climate Security Advisor to Somalia, whose position is under the UN Environment Programme, but who is seconded to the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM). This way, I have the unique opportunity to serve with two agencies.
With the Climate Security Advisor, our overarching goal is to assist Somali communities in becoming resilient to increasingly recurrent and frequent climatic shocks, while also mitigating possible climate-related conflicts.