Catarina Lorenzo

Youth climate change activist
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IntroYouth climate change activist
PlacesBrazil
isEnvironmentalist
Work fieldActivism
Gender
Female
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Biography

Catarina Lorenzo (born c. 2006/2007) is Brazilian climate activist from Salvador, Bahia. On September 23, 2019, she and 15 other children including Greta Thunberg, Alexandria Villaseñor, Ayakha Melithafa, and Carl Smith filed a complaint before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to protest lack of government action on the climate crisis. In particular, the complaint alleges that five countries, namely Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey, have failed to live up to their Paris Agreement pledges.

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