Throughout the world, women are often at the forefront of the fight for climate justice. Thousands of land defenders in Latin America are women, leading the charge to protect people and nature in their surroundings and calling for change in practice and policies that threaten people’s livelihoods and destroy the environment, including through overconsumption and waste.
On 4 April, join us at BarBichette to hear the stories of women-led climate actions in Latin America with Mariela Pino, an agricultural engineer, climate worker and activist from Chile. Mariela currently works with grassroots organisations focusing on zero waste throughout Latin America and she will bring reflections on how waste is a manifestation of the extractivist society we are living in now. Mariela will be in conversation with BarBichette full member Lauriane Veillard, who will also share perspectives from the European context and discuss with Mariela and our members the impact of overconsumption on other parts of the world.
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About the speakers
Mariela Pino
Mariela Pino is an agricultural engineer, with a master’s studies on technologies and resources management specialised in renewable energies. She has working experience in 3 continents and through her work she has been able to witness many different realities which affect or directly involve women’s rights and living conditions. From women working in agriculture, in packing houses, but also women living under vulnerable conditions in the global south, lacking energy and sanitation conditions; going through waste pickers and her families, when it comes to her current working environment in the context of municipal solid waste and climate justice. Mariela currently works for the Global Alliance for Incinerators Alternatives (GAIA), as the Member and Technical Support Officer for Latin America, following up and contributing to the development of 16 projects from México to Patagonia, which have a lot to do with life and caring for nature’s health and protection.
Lauriane Veillard
Lauriane Veillard works for Zero Waste Europe on chemical recycling to fight for climate justice. Lauriane has a personal interest in feminism, and was involved in a feminist association in the past. She arrived in Brussels almost 3 years ago after her Master's in EU affairs at the Political Sciences Institute of Rennes. She became a BarBichette full member in February 2023!