Catarina Lorenzo

Brazilian climate activist

Catarina Lorenzo (born March 30, 2007^[1]) is Brazilian climate activist from Salvador, Bahia.^[2]

Early life

Lorenzo was born to parents and grandparents also engaged in environmental justice activism.^[3] She grew up participating in strikes for the protections of rivers and forests^[3] and surfing.^[1]

Activism

On September 23, 2019, she and 15 other children including Greta Thunberg, Alexandria Villaseñor, Ayakha Melithafa, and Carl Smith filed a complaint before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to protest lack of government action on the climate crisis. In particular, the complaint alleges that five countries, namely Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey, have failed to live up to their Paris Agreement pledges.^[4]^[5]

She recently joined Greenkingdom, an International Youth led Intersectional Environmental movement, where she works as the coordinator for the movement's Brazilian chapter. Now she has teamed up with an Indian based 14-year-old Environmentalist and climate activist Sameer Yasin who is founder of the youth movement.

References

^ ^a ^b Catarina Lorenzo, Brazil, Climate Activist, retrieved 2021-04-20
^ "#ChildrenVsClimateCrisis". childrenvsclimatecrisis.org. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
^ ^a ^b Catarina Lorenzo | My activist story, and how we can ALL make a change, retrieved 2021-04-20
^ "Greta and 15 Kids Just Claimed Their Climate Rights at the UN". Earthjustice. 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
^ "UN Thunberg". www.bta.bg. Retrieved 2019-09-23.