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Tina Stege is the Climate Envoy for the Marshall Islands (RMI), one of the the most vulnerable countries to climate change.

Stege began her career at the RMI Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She then transferred to the Marshall Islands embassy in Washington, D.C., where she worked for almost seven years, responsible for liaison with the U.S. Congress. Returning home, in 2007 she was a researcher on a Land and Women project of the Pacific Islands Forum, then worked for the U.S. government on matters relating to emigration. She also carried out various consultancies, including for the Asian Development Bank and Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand, working on the unresolved legacy of U.S. nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. She has also worked closely with the Marshallese Education Initiative, an organization based in northwest Arkansas, US, where more than 12,000 Marshallese live.