Climate Change, Energy Transition and Sustainable Development
“Y20 represents the opportunity to amplify the voices of youth, so diverse among themselves, on issues that are fundamental to sustainable development in Brazil and the world. We are already and will be affected by the socio-environmental crisis for longer. So, this is a space to discuss and articulate climate adaptation and mitigation policies, environmental education, conservation, fair energy transition and combating environmental racism, contributing with effective analyzes and solutions. In this global discussion, we will have the responsibility to place territories such as favelas, quilombos, indigenous lands and traditional communities at the center, understanding that climate justice is achieved with popular participation, encouragement of science and a lot of political will, without leaving anyone behind.”
Mahryan is a climate activist and UN Youth Ambassador. Passionate about people, she has always had social transformation as a great ideal and mission in life. She was raised by a single mother and had the opportunity to be a scholarship holder in several social projects, as well as in educational institutions, taught from an early age about how education could change lives. Graduated in International Relations from Centro Universitário Belas Artes (FEBASP), and postgraduate in Human Rights and Social Struggles from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), she works promoting sustainable development and climate justice in vulnerable territories.
She is Co-Founder and Director of Climate Advocacy at Instituto Perifa Sustentável, with the aim of mobilizing peripheral youth to build a fair and inclusive climate agenda, focusing on climate adaptation, mitigation and nature-based solutions. She was a Brazilian delegate at three UN Climate Change Conferences (COP 26 – Glasgow, Scotland; COP 27 – Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt; and COP 28 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates), debating strategies and solutions for environmental racism in the Global South . He was a speaker at the 10th ECOSOC Youth Forum – UN Economic and Social Council.
Mahryan is part of the Youth Climate Leaders (YCL) network and is Co-Founder and Director of Climate Advocacy at Instituto Perifa Sustentável; Currently, he works in the areas of climate justice, political advocacy and anti-racist adaptation, working in training processes with young people from Brazilian outskirts and favelas. Developed the #VozesClimáticas and Clima de Quebrada projects, training and developing young people in Brazil in the themes of climate action, territorial action, communication and political action.
She is a member of Global Shapers, and is currently developing the Motyrõ project to build an agroforest in the community of Grajaú, in the extreme south of São Paulo. She also works as a Young Advisor to the European Union through the Youth Souding Board — as a focal point for green diplomacy policies between Brazil and the EU — and is part of the Youth for Climate Network (FFF Brasil), coordinating local advocacy actions within the scope of climate activism. .
