Cassia Moraes

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Cassia Moraes is the Partnerships and Outreach Manager at EIT Climate-KIC (Strategic Programmes). She is Founder and Board Member of the Youth Climate Leaders (YCL). Formerly she served as Deputy Executive Coordinator and consultant for the Brazilian Mission to the UN.

Cassia Moraes

Dec 19 2022

Back from COP27: is this format of Conference fit for purpose?

Illuminem Voices

Public Governance · Social Responsibility

Hosting such a Conference in a luxurious environment, in a country with an obstructed civic space, and with a lot of logistical issues (last-minute hotel cancellations, inflated prices for COP delegates...) is definitely not ideal. The Conference itself has become a Fair, with little or no criteria about who should participate and too many events [plus] too little presence and authentic exchanges.