Catarina Lorenzo (born March 30, 2007
[) is Brazilian ]climate activist
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from Salvador, Bahia
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.
Early life
Lorenzo was born to parents and grandparents also engaged in environmental justice
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activism.
Activism
On September 23, 2019, she and 15 other children including Greta Thunberg
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Thunberg's activism began when she persuaded ...
, Alexandria Villaseñor
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, Ayakha Melithafa
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Early life and education
Melithafa is from Eerste River, Western Cape, a suburb of Cape Town. She is currently a student at the Centre of Science and Technology in Khayelits ...
, and Carl Smith filed a complaint before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
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The Committee also monitors the Convention's three optional protoco ...
to protest lack of government action on the climate crisis. In particular, the complaint alleges that five countries, namely Argentina
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, Brazil
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, France
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, Germany
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, and Turkey
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, have failed to live up to their Paris Agreement
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pledges.
References
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Living people
Brazilian women environmentalists
Brazilian environmentalists
Child activists
Brazilian climate activists
Brazilian women activists
Youth climate activists
2007 births