María Paula is an environmental engineer who works as a researcher for La Ruta del Clima. She contributes to projects related to climate change impacts, loss and damage, governance processes, citizen participation, human mobility and youth.

Isatis M. Cintron-Rodriguez is a Puertorrican climate scientist studying the chemistry, transport and impacts of air pollutants on the cryosphere and Small Island Developing States. She has a long track record of community organizing and capacity building in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Region focusing on climate governance and ethics to expand the civic space at the UNFCCC and national levels. She works at the intersection of science, governance and civic diplomacy building bridges between citizens, policymakers and scientists. She has won the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow Award and her work has been supported by the Union of Concerned Scientists to make citizens’ assemblies to build a community-led NDC for Puerto Rico, a blueprint that has served to coordinate and deploy citizens assemblies globally for broadening spaces for civic engagement at the local and international levels.

Associate Director at Heinrich Boell Stiftung Washington, DC.

Teo is an award winning artist, filmmaker and photographer working on projects relating to political ecology, Loss and Damage, climate-induced migration and displacement, Slow Violence and the political and cultural critique of the Anthropocene. Teo also works to coordinate the Loss and Damage collaborations Advocacy and Outreach program and Art and Culture program and their communications work.

Tetet is an activist and development worker with almost 30 years’ experience in multidisciplinary and multi-cultural settings at grassroots, national, regional and international levels. She works on different development issues and themes, but is most passionate about climate justice. Tetet strives to make the climate negotiations on finance, particularly loss and damage finance, accessible to a broader audience as a contribution to growing stronger global movements for climate justice.

MA. Adrián Martínez Blanco is the Director and founder of La Ruta del Clima. Alexander von Humboldt - ICC Alumni. Master in Environment, Development and Peace. Researcher on public participation, loss and damage, and international climate law.

Ryan is a consultant focusing on climate and migration, with experience working in both the legal and policy sectors. He has conducted field research and authored various submissions and reports on climate change displacement, human rights and loss and damage, and he advocates for better inclusion of these issues at the international level, including in UNFCCC negotiations. He is keenly interested in how civil society and international cooperation can improve policies and legal protections for those displaced in the context of climate change.

Linda Siegele, JD LLM is an environmental lawyer and independent consultant. She has been involved in the United Nations climate change negotiating process since 2005 with a special focus on the issues of adaptation and loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change in developing countries. Linda is particularly familiar with the climate change concerns of small island developing states and least developed countries, having directly supported country delegations through the provision of relevant technical and strategic legal and policy advice. Linda has been a member of the WIM ExCom's Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management since 2019.

Pierre Candelon is a specialist in public policies on environment, development, and climate change, with more than 10 years of experience in various settings (public, private, and academia), across different regions of the world. Since 2016, he has been actively involved in the field of climate diplomacy, initially serving in the French delegation, then acting as a strategy coordinator for the Loss and Damage Collaboration, and finally as an advisor within the AOSIS group. He is currently stationed at UNDP but continues to contribute to the work of the Collaboration through his research, focusing primarily on governance mechanisms for Loss & Damage, as well as exploring the intricate relationship between international advocacy strategies and their tangible effects on communities, aiming to foster innovative forms of inter-institutional diplomacy and effective program management.