While the Western Hemisphere is a vast area with many different peoples, environments, cultures, resources and concerns, all have one overarching concern: climate change, Daniel P. Erikson, the Defense Department’s point man for the region, said.
Erikson serves as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Western Hemisphere. In his travels in the region, he does more listening than talking. And he is hearing leaders from the Caribbean to Argentina to Canada talking about the threats from climate change.
He recently participated in meetings in the Bahamas where Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro engaged with leaders from the government, civil society, and academia, about the existential threat to island nations. Both DOD leaders also traveled to Panama with other representatives from the Defense Department to join the U.S. delegation for the 8th Our Ocean Conference in early March.
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