Clara Botto

Clara is the Director of Outreach at the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering (DSG) and has been engaged with sustainable development at a grassroots and international level, from arts to politics, for the past 9 years.

She co-founded the platform SRM Youth Watch, seeking to inform and capacitate young people on the governance of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) technologies, following her outreach activities with the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G) Youth Voices for Emerging Climate Governance project. As part of that, she was an observer in the Marine Cloud Brightening fieldwork taking place at the Great Barrier Reef, participated and spoke in several events, and wrote contributions to the UN. 

Clara is currently also a climate fellow with UNU-UNFCCC, a campaigner with World’s Youth for Climate Justice seeking an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice, and a New European Voice on Existential Risk with the European Leadership Network. She holds a MSc in International Development and Public Policy, having written her thesis as a pedagogical public policy case study of deep-sea mining in Portugal, and a BSc in Business with focus in Creative Economy and Marketing, where she researched about sustainable fashion and the universities’ lack of preparation to equip youth for sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro.