Möt ambassadörerna

As a waste and environmental engineer, agriculturist, part-time lecturer, and a devoted environmentalist, committed to addressing our preset environmental challenges. My belief in the power of education and training, has reinforced my conviction that awareness is the key to combatting climate change. Through my role in the regional council, I plan to develop programs to promote climate literacy, focusing on waste management, sustainability, aimed at fostering a greener& healthier environment. 

My name is Meda and I will be organising monthly Climate Cafe events in Kaunas. My aim is to establish a safe and welcoming environment where individuals can convene, engage in discourse about climate-related concerns, exchange innovative ideas, and acquire comprehensive insights into the Climate Pact and what it aims to achieve.

My activities focus on supporting local governments and non-governmental organizations through substantive training and workshops, environmental education, and financing activities aimed at preventing climate change and minimizing its negative effects. I plan to advocate against climate change at a local level, I will encourage Local Municipalities to participate ate in the 'Green Cities' program. At International level, I will organize plantation drives at the Institutional level.

I am a climate pact ambassador who is passionate about taking action for the climate and the environment. I plan to engage and educate the public through various activities, such as:

- Developing a videonewsletter series about SDG13 and sharing the latest climate research with the public 

- Highlighting online courses on Climate Action that can provide people with the knowledge and skills they need to take action

- Organising webinars with various stakeholders to foster dialogue and collaboration on how to achieve the goals of the Climate Pact

- Making use of my LinkedIn network to spread the word about the climate pact and its objectives and encourage people to join the community

- Designing animation video that explains the climate pact goals in a simple and inspiring way

- Collaborating with my fellow Climate Pact feambassadors to design collective actions that can create a bigger impact in their communities.

I am new in climate iniciatives. #CanDo and #Possitive attitude unconsciously opened my way to LEAN with enforcing the basic 6S method through employee engagement by introducing internal culture development projects and coordinating employee training processes, focusing on empowering others through learning events. This experience continuously led me to suistanability iniciatives. At local level mostly, so far.

As a Pact Ambassador, I am dedicated to advancing climate action with a strong emphasis on education and inclusivity. With a background in sustainability and agriculture, I am focusing on my mission to raise awareness and cultivate a collective commitment to climate action among diverse audiences, particularly in educational institutions. My initiatives encompass developing educational resources, delivering impactful presentations, and organising empowering workshops, with a specific focus on inspiring youth, empowering girls, and engaging citizens in countering climate misinformation, ultimately encouraging climate-neutral practices. I am enthusiastic about leveraging my roles as a sustainability researcher and citizen scientist, utilising social media and conference platforms to drive practical solutions for a sustainable future. Together, our collective efforts can truly make a significant impact in the battle against climate change.

My motivation is the planet. We have to save it, and younger generations are very important in order to reach that goal. I will contact schools, mayors and important people that can help us. My most important job is to raise awareness, and I will give 100% of my dedication by organising climate days at schools, creating days for making my hometown greener and much more!

I am the President of YES-Europe and I firmly believe in local initiatives as the tool for climate awareness. Through creating a safe platform for young people to absorb knowledge, network with diverse individuals, strategise plans, mobilise action, localise events, globalise projects and launcg initiatives, we are able to provide the organisational culture to foster collaboration, overcome challenges and implement meaningful climate action in a vast amount of technical sectors.

As a European Climate Pact Ambassador, I will raise awareness on the impacts of climate change and how to stop the perpetuattion of structural inequalities, such as those between women and men. I will promote the involvement of women in decision-making, so we can help drive the adoption of climate change policies and strengthen the efforts by ensuring they benefit the needs of women and the communities that they are members of. I will actively build networks of experts, public stake holders and civil society representatives, so that the gender gaps can be reduced and the access to resources, education and information can be assured for women working in rural areas across Romania and Europe. 

Being a passionate advocate for climate action and sustainable innovation, I lead initiatives that drive the transition towards a greener future. As the CEO of Sunrise Tech Park and Cleantech Cluster Lithuania, I am committed to fostering an ecosystem where Cleantech startups and innovative companies thrive. My work involves spearheading partnerships, both locally and internationally, that promote entrepreneurship, sustainability and cleantech.

From medical doctor to social media intern to Media Director to health/queer activist and aspiring author, my journey has been far from a traditional one, but I have certainly kept myself busy over the past 30 years. I am passionate about plant based eating, environmental conservation, unpacking Malta's history through a decolonising lens, queer activism and youth work, and writing.

Through my work as Climate Pact Ambassador, I aim to make climate action understandable, accessible and attainable, regardless of resource availability, knowledge or community space. Starting local and expanding beyond the borders of my tiny homeland of Malta, I hope to use my voice and actions to inspire others to do the same. From social media efforts, to panel discussions, to collaborative pieces, art spaces, community events, and discussions with local governance, I want to show that anyone can take the first step towards embracing the power of environmental and climate action. 

I am the president of Agroecology Europe and the Hungarian Agroecology Network Association since 2022, both with the goal to analyse, design, develop and promote the transition towards agroecological farming and food systems at national, European, regional and global level. I started my own farm in 2018, where I am applying agroecological, regenerative and permacultural principles. I did a Humanity in Action Fellowship in 2023. I was part of the Strategic Dialogues on the Future of Food & Agriculture.

Environmental education should be one of today's critical skills. Evolution and Darwinism have proven that those who change and adapt their behavior, survive. We have strengthened our financial literacy, we learn digital and cyber security skills, now, when the climate becomes more fragile and its natural reactions affect virtually everyone, environmental and climate education should become one of our daily skills. 

I actively contribute to raising awareness of the challenges that climate change poses to build environment and create good practices for a more sustainable way to design and implement projects. I intend to bridge the knowledge gap on climate change. I am committed to making a meaningful and lasting impact on the climate initiatives in our professional communities.

I am an activist. I am a young person looking to create a better world, a better future. In my daily life I am a student, but I am also someone who is engaged in multiple arenas from the SDGs to sustainable innovation to poetry. To me taking action is not a simple thing, it requires new ideas and an interdisciplinary focus. As an ambassador I will work for broad community engagement, with a focus on creativity and innovation, in particular through education and workshops.

I am a biologist, epidemiologist, and climate activist. I identify as an eco-feminist and as a member of the board of the Union of Women Alternative and Response, I actively contribute to raising awareness of the challenges that climate change poses to gender equality and women’s rights. As a European Climate Pact Ambassador, I intend to develop a program in the northern region of Portugal, aimed at promoting climate literacy, particularly focused on rural women in the interior of Portugal. Through conferences, workshops, debates, film screenings, and hands-on activities centered around climate action, good practices for a more sustainable way of life and the protection of local biodiversity, I intend to bridge the knowledge gap on climate change, especially for those living outside major urban centers who have limited access to such training, in particular, rural women. I am committed to making a meaningful and lasting impact on the climate initiatives in our local communities.

As an Ambassador of the Climate Pact, I will make it my mission to spread a systemic thinking approach aiming at involving the entire community in positive and sustainable behavior change processes based on each different territory needs detected and possibilities.

Operationally, I will promote awareness raising, collaborate with the already existent climate networks at a local, regional, national and international level aiming at having a continous dialogue pertaining to best practices.

Valeria Barbi, Political scientist and naturalist by training. Explorer by vocation. Biodiversity and climate change expert. Has traveled to 5 continents and 44 countries to observe the behavior of other species and investigate the relationship between humans and nature. Consultant for the public and private sectors. Speaker at national and international events. Part of the Faculty of 24Ore Business School and ISPI. He contributes to a variety of publications including Lifegate, The Turn, The Nature Review, Renewable Matter. Her first book, What is Biodiversity, Today, was published in 2022 by Edizioni Ambiente. Author of WANE - We Are Nature Expedition, she was named Hummingbird of Honor by Save The Planet for her commitment to nature. Ambassador of the European Climate Pact and member of EuClipa. She serves on the Commission on Communication and Education of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

My mission as an Ambassador is to make people aware of a better and fairer world to live in.

I believe that together we can make a huge difference through our purposes for the regeneration of our planet. Society must be united with the objective of carrying out and implementing actions that achieve good and valuable objectives.

My main motivation is through cleaning, active research, education, awareness and especially respect for nature to achieve a better world for all.