Embassy Events
On Earth Day Embassy Officers Speak about U.S. Actions to Halt Global Warming
April 22, 2008
Nearly one-third of the Embassy's officers left their desks on April 22 to speak to secondary school students in every region of the Slovak Republic about the U.S. policy on global warming and other environmental issues. In all, sixteen high schools were visited and nearly 1,000 Slovak students had the opportunity to discuss their most urgent questions about the United States directly with an American speaker. In the Earth Day discussions, officers spoke about how the U.S. recognizes the impact of human activity on the planet and American efforts to cut emissions of green house gases. At the Evangelical High School Juraj Tranovsky in Liptovsky Mikulas, senior students presented their own videos and musical performance, in English, about the damage caused to the environment by wars and transportation. The American officers valued the experience of hearing which environmental issues most concern young Slovaks.