GI-ESCR participates in training session on climate change and human rights

Last 13 September, Alejandra Lozano, GI-ESCR’s Programme Officer on Environmental and Climate Justice participated in one of the conferences on “Diversity and a Globalized World” convened by the Mexican University Tecnológico de Monterrey to detonate the debate and reflect on the key challenges to be addressed in today’s globalized world.  

The event brought together a panel of speakers and activists with the aim to incite the conversation on the implications of climate change on human rights and on other structural conditions of marginalization and discrimination among undergraduate students and professors coming from a wide variety of disciplines and academic backgrounds. The panel was composed by:

·         Mariana Gutierrez, Iniciativa Climática de México and Humboldt Viadrina Governance Platform.

·         Andrea Hurtado, Climate Change Coordinator for the Latin American Program at Health Without Harm

·         Alejandra Lozano, Programme Officer at the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

GI-ESCR’s intervention highlighted how women in all their diversity tend to suffer disproportionately form drastic changes in the environment caused by the climate crisis and the critical need to incorporate a human right and a intersectional gender lens in the solutions articulated to decarbonize our societies. The event was an opportunity to inform and connect younger audiences with notions of climate justice and a gender-just transition to low carbon societies in a safe learning environment.