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Catarina Faria Alves Silveira is Brazilian, living in Sao Paulo. She works at the environmental department at Central Única dos Trabalhadores (Unitarian Workers Union, CUT) Brazil. At the secretariat, she works on climate change, biodiversity and desertification as well as other national issues. Also, she has been following negotiations on Rio+20 internationally and in Brazil. Catarina has always been interested in the relationship between incorporating local knowledge to management, conflicts over natural resources. She is also a PhD student at Universidade de Sao Paulo on Environmental Sciences and has one extra year to finish her thesis on climate change negotiations and non-state actors, focusing on the labour movement. One of the aspects that she is exploring is the interlinkages between climate change negotiations, risk reduction, labour movement and preventive diplomacy.

Gustavo Endara is Project Coordinator at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Ecuador. He works at the Regional Energy and Climate Project, which specializes with the analysis of sustainable energy and climate policies in Latin America. He graduated from the University of Applied Sciences of Münster with a M.A. in International Management, majoring in sustainability and corporate social responsibility. His career focus has been to work in international fields. In addition he enjoys writing and analyzing topics about sustainable development, since he believes that research in this topic will help humanity to manage key strategic challenges, such as climate change.

Marioliva González is an environmental activist. She studied International Relations at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicon (UNAM) and has always been involved in environmental and youth participation issues. Seven years ago she founded GYAN Mexico and her organization has closely followed the negotiations on Rio+20 and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), among others. In addition, she works on appropriate technology for communities in Mexico, such as eco-cook stoves and water catchment systems.

Ravi Kant Tripathi is a law graduate from the National Law University (Lucknow) in India and is currently pursuing his Master studies at Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). Back home, he worked as coordinator for a youth led think tank called Youth Initiative Network (Research Unit) that works on aspects of public policy and environmental governance.  He also has a research background in natural resources law and sustainable development and is participating in the Water Justice-movement with trade unions. His interest in Green Economy is to work towards creating alternative solutions for a more participatory and equitable global model at Rio+20 to counter challenges of global food and water insecurity. He believes that achieving this requires a clear mandate not just on environmental sustainability but differing socioeconomic realities in the developing world.

Stella Paul is an Indian environment and development journalist with ten years of experience as a reporter, editor and media trainer. She reports independently to several media outlets, including the environmental magazine ‘Planet Earth’. A 2011 winner of the global Climate Change Media Partnership fellowship, Stella had started out as a political news reporter, but later moved to environment journalism which she is strongly passionate about. She has a master’s degree in Comparative Literature and also a Post-graduate diploma in Environmental Law. Stella mostly writes on climate change, climate adaptation, rural livelihood and sustainable development.

Valeska Hesse is Resident Director of the FES Indonesia Office, a position she shares with Daniel Reichart. She is based in Jakarta. Before being headed to Asia, she worked for FES in Mexico and Central America.