COP26 Climate Café Programme Speakers

Jess Pepper

Scotland

Jess Pepper is a Climate Reality leader and coordinator for Climate Reality UK for COP26. Since founding Climate Café in 2015, she now supports and connects Climate Cafés globally. She works in sustainable transport and the Climate Emergency Summit series, as well as supporting community climate action. She sits on the board of the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland coalition, is an honorary fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Sally Giblin

Australia

Sally Giblin is an Eco Founder, Climate Reality Leader, and Environmentalist. Her purpose is to inspire others to take dramatic action on our climate and biodiversity crisis – the most important issue of our lifetime. She’s the CoFounder of Be The Future, which inspires parents of young children to raise heroic leaders for environmental change, drawing on storytelling, behavioral science, and positivity. She’s spreading the word about environmental action through writing for media publications such as Climate Conscious, Pebble Magazine, and The Grace Tales, and speaking at events such as It’s Time: A Festival Of Climate Action.

Ryan Bestre

Philippines

Ryan is a Climate Reality Leader who is one of the 2017 Miguel R. Magalang Individual Climate Leadership Memorial Awardees. He was a fellow of Japan Foundation’s Disaster and Environmental Education + Creativity Hope and Dreams (HANDs)! Project. His HANDs! Project action plan dubbed “Operation Kawayan” promoted the culture of safety and resilience in schools through creativity, storytelling, and games.

Bill McKinley

Scotland

Bill is a seasoned Climate Reality Leader who will be presenting the Climate Reality “Truth in 10” presentation. He was trained by the founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, former US Vice President, Al Gore, along with world leading scientists, economists and politicians in Berlin in 2018. His interest in the climate and the science behind global warming was triggered by watching Al Gore’s movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ aboard one of the many long haul flights he took regularly for his job. It occurred to him that while he was working to optimise and improve vehicle transportation safety and efficiency, which was a good thing, the amount of air travel he was doing was actually damaging the environment and contributing hugely to the aviation industry’s CO2 emissions.

Ymène Fouli

Canada

Dr. Fouli grew up in Tunisia where she studied georesources and environmental engineering and later attended graduate school in Scotland and in the USA where she taught and conducted research in soil science. She continued with research in nutrient management and animal farming in Maryland and Saskatchewan, and later joined a consulting firm in Alberta as an environmental scientist and project manager. She currently consults independently on water and soil quality, watershed management, and climate change.

Julieta Rodrigo

Julieta Rodrigo is a climate science educator and communicator. Growing up in a family of immigrants, Julieta’s background is rooted in the belief that effective communication is a great way to bring diverse people together. After receiving bachelor degrees in Political Science and International Relations, she dedicated her time to learning about the threats posed by a changing climate. In her role as Program Manager at The CLEO Institute, she educates students, teachers, and the general public about the climate crisis. She is attending COP as a member of Climate Generation’s Window Into COP26 delegation.

Melissa Capcha

Peru

Melissa is a Peruvian climate activist. She has been involved in different initiatives in different countries to raise awareness about the urgency of tackling climate change. She is also committed to improving education between children and youth and advocating for their right to have access to climate change education. In addition, she is a social entrepreneur; in 2018, she founded the Center of Climate innovation and Sustainability. Thus, Melissa combined her passions, education, and promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions in Peru.

Joe Vipond

Canada

Ana Isabel Billingslea

Guatemala

Ana Isabel is the Director of Futuro Verde NGO. She was born in Guatemala where she graduate on Sustainable Management. She has 8 years of environmental education experience with NGO´s and communities. Ana found her passion about making others discover how our way of life can make a difference while traveling around Guatemala and knowing the problems of the indigenous communities. Now she is committed to transmit that balance is necessary in our world.

Futuro Verde is a digital information platform. We give Spanish speakers reliable and verified content that is easy to understand and share. We allow people to engage, learn and take action. Our mission is to create awareness of the causes and consequences of climate change, and promote action in Latin America.

Joshua Cooper

Hawaii USA

Joshua is an academic, advocate, author, analyst and activist based in Hawaii. He is a human rights advocate engaging in global and regional mechanisms guaranteeing fundamental freedoms. He has participated as an official observer at United Nations meetings in both the charter and treaty bodies of the human rights machinery for over a decade. He also advises Major Groups and Other Stakeholders in the UN Voluntary National Reviews for the High Level Political Forum and is mobilizing subnational initiatives such as Voluntary Local Reviews spearheaded by cities.

Erik Dalhuijsen

Netherlands

Erik Dalhuijsen is a petroleum engineer, climate change activist, sustainability engineer and an avid ocean sailor. His career so far has ranged from technical and integrated petroleum developments, Carbon Capture and Storage, energy and sustainability analysis and implementation, to climate change awareness as co-founder of Aberdeen Climate Action.

Ruwan Gamage

Sri Lanka

Ruwan Gamage is from Sri Lanka. He has a BSc in Agriculture and postgraduate degree in Climate Change and Environmental management. His job role is to promote organic Agriculture and regenerative agriculture to limit GHG emissions. He is an Agrarian development officer in the Sri Lanka government and Co Founder of Solutions for Climate Change Network in Sri Lanka. He has a strong passion to combat climate change.