Climate Justice, Finance and Our Common Future at COP30: Panel Discussion

Overview

This panel discussion will convene policymakers and academics to reflect on Brazil’s announcements in Belém outlining a just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

The conversation will highlight the handover from Azerbaijan to Brazil, amplify Indigenous perspectives on the Amazon, and explore pathways for climate justice, climate finance, and a more equitable future for the Global South.

Speakers

Robin Daniels is a serial company founder, innovator and impact investor. He is focused on the environmentally sensitive application of technologies and new business models to drive innovation and investment into the global fight against climate change, social inequality and habitat loss. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College.

His Excellency Elin Suleymanov is the Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United Kingdom, appointed in 2021 by President Ilham Aliyev. Prior to that Mr Suleymanov served as Azerbaijan’s long-time Ambassador to the United States of America for a decade.

Earlier, he served as Senior Counselor at the Foreign Relations Department, Office of the President in Baku, Azerbaijan and as Press Officer of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Washington, DC.

Mr Suleymanov’s experience before joining diplomatic service includes working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Azerbaijan and Glaverbel Czech, a leading manufacturing company in East-Central Europe.

Natalia Buitron is an anthropologist exploring political subjectivities, indigeneity, and development, specifically how broader political and economic forms interweave with moral transformation in daily life. She has researched, written and taught on a wide range of issues pertaining to indigenous-state relations, (in)equality, intercultural education, writing and childhood. She is a Fellow of Jesus College.

Priscila Tapajowara is an indigenous woman from the Amazon biome, born in the ancestral territory of the Tapajó people, Santarém, Pará.

She is a filmmaker, and photographer and she was chosen by EFE and Sanchamama as one of the 100 Latinos most committed to climate action in 2023 and 2024. Since 2013, she has been showing the struggle and culture of indigenous peoples through photography and in 2018 she graduated in Audiovisual Production from FAPCOM College, becoming the first indigenous woman to graduate from the institution.

In the indigenous communication organisation Mídia Indígena she serves as president and vice-president of the Território da Artes Institute.

Programme

17.30 - Welcome Remarks

17.45 - Panel Discussion
Chair: Dr Robin Daniels (Wolfson College)
His Excellency Elin Suleymanov (Ambassador of Azerbaijan)
Dr Natalia Buitron (Jesus College)
Priscilla Tapajowara (Amazonian Filmmaker) TBC

18.30 - Q&A

Details

This event is open to all and free to attend - please register your place.

Access

This event will take place in the Lee Hall which has step-free access and an accessible toilet.

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact our events team - events@wolfson.cam.ac.uk

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