How Listening to Environmental Defenders Builds Stronger Climate Solutions

​Brought to you by Global Witness, The Goldman Environmental Prize & Futerra

​​When businesses and frontline communities are so often regarded as at odds, and even antagonistic, how do we accelerate climate solutions, and maintain stable operating environments, when the individual and the organization don’t always agree?

​Taking in subject areas ranging from corporate responsibility in the race for a just energy future, and the road ahead to platforming defender voices at COP30 in Brazil, this panel will explore how defenders’ expertise and rights can drive climate policy at all levels, from the local to the international. 

​Speakers:

• ​Nicole Byrd, Senior US Policy Advisor, Transition Minerals, Global Witness

• ​Mike Davis, CEO, Global Witness

• ​Marcel Gomes, Journalist, Reporter Brasil

• ​Chima Williams, Executive Director, Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN)

​Moderated by Yessenia Funes, Climate & Environmental Journalist