Farhana is an internationally recognized environmental lawyer, climate change and development policy expert. She has advised leaders and ministers on UN climate negotiations for 30 years, representing small islands and developing countries and attending nearly every major climate summit since 1991. In addition to founding Track 0, she is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, a Director of Impatience, Senior Advisor to SYSTEMIQ, a FRSA and Visiting Professor at University of the Arts, London, and deputy chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum expert advisory group. She is currently the Coordinator of the Climate Justice & Just Transition Donor Collaborative Project – a project bringing together some of the world’s largest private philanthropies on an educational journey about how to tackle systemic inequalities through intersectional solutions.
She was voted Number 2 on the 2020 BBC’s Power List with the judges describing her a “powerhouse of climate justice” and is active in numerous community-based initiatives and social justice movements. She is a columnist at Business Green and appears regularly in the media. She trained as an outdoor education leader and did a number of courses on nature connection, including how to support racialized minorities to access & enjoy green spaces. She works part time at the Doc Society coordinating the Climate Reframe Project which seeks to amplify the voice of racialized minorities in the UK environment movement.
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A provocative 🧵 How would #COP27 be different if the decision makers were a snapshot of the global population chosen by #Sortition? 50% women, 10% no formal education, 70% living on $10 or less a day, 17% from India, 13% white? This is what we did with the 2021 #GlobalAssembly
Sending ❤️❤️🩹 to Alaa & renewed strength to continue being a beacon of justice. #COP27 has ended with much more awareness of how intertwined #ClimateJustice #HumanRights #FreeSpeech #FreeAlaa all are.
Once again we are reminded: Alaa is a human being, sometimes he finds the strength to fight them and lead us in our battle to #FreeAlaa, other times he falls apart
The fact that he endured 9 years of this should not be taken for granted, he is vulnerable as any prisoner would be
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In low-energy finish, oil and gas escape censure at #COP27
✍ @climatemegan @ChloeFarand @joeloyo in Sharm el-Sheikh
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/11/20/in-low-energy-finish-oil-and-gas-escape-censure-at-cop27/
#COP27 has delivered progress on #LossAndDamage Fund which was key #climatejustice #JustTransition (a new JT process & ministerial for 2023). Tough but doable mission for #COP28 to get rid of #FossilFuels which must be cut.
Cop27 agrees to historic ‘loss and damage’ fund to compensate developing countries for climate impacts https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/20/cop27-agrees-to-historic-loss-and-damage-fund-to-compensate-developing-countries-for-climate-impacts?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1668918074
Just like at #COP24 in Katowice, Saudi Arabia is again blocking the negotiations, maybe it’s time to remind them that, if we don’t phase out all #FossilFuels rapidly, the first thing that goes up in flames along with the planet is the Saudi vision 2030. #COP27
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Farhana has written many books, articles and is a regular columnist about climate justice & the UN climate negotiations, having attended nearly every UN climate summit and COPs since 1991. Many of her publications are available on this website.
