Climate Generation, a national organization focused on equitable solutions to climate change, has selected 12 climate leaders from across the United States to attend the 27th Conference of the Parties in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 7-18. 2022. Barbara Martinez-Guerrero of Dream in Green has been selected as an official member of their Window into COP27 delegation to bring ways to integrate environmental sustainability into K-12 classrooms in South Florida.
Climate Generation’s COP27 delegation will be on the ground in Egypt bringing the international climate negotiations to life for audiences to follow in their home communities and on digital networks. Representing diverse communities, COP27 window delegates will collect climate stories, share negotiation summaries, host interviews, host live streams and represent their unique areas of expertise for the email digest that accompanies it, with the aim of making international climate policy accessible to all. .
“Empowering people to take action is our organization’s core mission,” said Barbara Martinez-Guerrero, Dream in Green’s CEO and Generation Climate delegate. “Our top priority is to focus on education, training, public participation and network coordination – all of which are elements of ACE.”
The Window into COP27 delegation represents the work of Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) – under Article 12 of the Paris Agreement – which has the specific goal of empowering all members of society to s engage in climate action through public access to information and international cooperation. . Members of the full delegation include:
● Dana Ahmed, Alliance for a Sustainable Ocean
● Sohayla Eldeeb, Stanford University
● Stephanie Heckman, Drawsome
● Barbara Martinez-Guerrero, Dream in Green
● Chandelle O’Neil, International Student Environmental Coalition
● Eric Pasi, New Energy Equity
● Susan Phillips, Executive Director, Climate Generation
● Javan Santos, The Climate Initiative
● Diamond Spratling, Environment Girl Plus
● Pooja Tilvawalla, The Climate Initiative
There is an urgent need to find solutions to tackle the climate crisis because economies, the environment and people depend on it. The growing movement is to get people to understand what can be done and what the responsibility of the various stakeholder groups will be. One group that is often overlooked is the immigrant and minority population who are disproportionately affected but do not know what the underlying causes are or what they can do about it. Unique to Miami, a large portion of local residents fall into this category and constitute the frontline communities, those experiencing the “first and worst” consequences of climate change.
Dream in Green has worked with local schools for 15 years and provides students with hands-on training in a variety of sustainability topics throughout the school year, disseminating the lessons through teacher training. This opportunity for representation on the international stage will connect more than 130 schools currently enrolled in the organization’s Green Schools Challenge program. Students and teachers will have direct access to this annual event attended by world leaders, representatives of nations, eminent scientists and business leaders to discuss the state of global progress against climate change.
Generation Climate has led delegations of educators, youth and community leaders to the UNFCCC Conference of Parties since COP15 in 2009. Generation Climate’s Window on the COP program elevates the critical role that an engaged, educated society and actively plays in promoting the just and equitable action needed to mitigate and adapt to climate change on a global scale. The delegation is also a member of the official US ACE Coalition, a group of organizations, institutions, and experts working to accelerate just, effective, and whole-of-society action toward a climate-safe future.
Sign up to receive updates from the Window into COP27 delegation at go.climategen.org/cop27.
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