The Black Brazilian Climate Justice Circle aims to create and launch the first-of-its-kind Institute/Center for Climate Justice to act on political incidence focused on Black population in Brazil. This will be the first community-driven and leading-edge multidisciplinary research center for racial and climate justice in Brazil. Beyond the words, we believe in multiple communications tools and evidence-based strategies to spread, integrate, and popularize knowledge on the intersection of climate and racial justice.

Andréia Coutinho Louback is a Fulbright’s Humphrey Alumni (University of California, Davis), has a bachelor degree in Journalism (PUC-Rio) and a master degree in Ethnic Racial Relations (CEFET/RJ). As part of her fellowship experience, she did a professional residence at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), based in New York, as a climate justice specialist. With eleven years of experience in social communication, she currently works with advocacy and mobilization on climate justice issues in Brazil, where she is in charge of several civil society and academic initiatives on climate change, gender, race and social inequalities. In 2018, Andréia worked at Institute for Climate and Society (iCS) as communications coordinator, where she was responsible for leading all the institutional communication, and afterwards she worked on a climate justice project at Alana Institute, unifying the climate litigation with children rights in Brazil. Recently, she coordinated a publication titled "Who Needs Climate Justice in Brazil?",  signed by the Gender and Climate Justice Working Group, from the Climate Observatory. As a journalist, she is a columnist for Nexo Jornal and Projeto Colabora, where she writes articles on climate, racial and gender justice.

John FrancBlack Brazilian Climate Justice Circle

Sylvain FerrièreFranceBlack Brazilian Climate Justice Circle