Marina Marçal Email & Phone Number

Marina Marçal is an expert in Climate Policy, Legal and Social Sciences, Gender and Ethnic-Racial Relations. She coordinated the Climate Policy Portfolio of the Climate and Society Institute (iCS). She was a visiting scholar in the Columbia Law School's Environment and Energy program in 2022 under the guidance of Professor Jedediah Purdy with a focus on Climate Policy and Equity. She is a black ecofeminist and lawyer, PhD candidate and she holds a Master in Sociology and Law in the field of Socio-environmental, Rural and Urban Conflicts at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF-RJ), where she graduated. She also holds a Master in Ethnic-Racial Relations from the Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET-RJ). Marina has experience in academic environmental research for over 11 years by PROEX-UFF, FAPERJ and FIOCRUZ (including the Map of Conflicts of Environmental Injustice in Brazil) and fieldwork involving indigenous peoples, quilombola communities, afrodescendants and populations around mineral activity in Minas Gerais and Pará, as well as rural workers in the northeast of Brazil. She was cited in 2018 in The Intercept Brazil's list of black experts. In addition to law firms, she worked with Policy and Advocacy in the area of Private Sector, Human Rights and Inequalities at Oxfam Brazil. At the Climate and Society Institute, Marina worked on projects such as the Subnational Platform for Climate, Brazil Climate Action HUB, Brazil Alliance for Climate Action working with the multisectoral implementation of the Brazilian NDC, including articulation with National Congress and subnational actors specially governors and mayors, in addition to the Brazilian trajectory towards the Climate Change Conferences. She is also a member of the Concertation for Amazon, Climate Reality Project, Columbia Women Leaders Network and Women Leaders for Planetary Health.