Júlia has been working for 13 years on projects related to climate change and sustainability. She is a mechanical engineer with a degree from USP/ITA and has built her career on a combination of academic training, experience in the field and strategic action. She has an MBA in Socio-Environmental Management from IPÊ, a master's degree in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics (LSE) in London, and is a researcher and PhD candidate in Climate Finance at the University of Sussex in the UK, where she receives a scholarship for her climate leadership.
Throughout her career, she has managed the implementation of 27 projects in 9 indigenous territories in the Amazon, in the context of the environmental licensing of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant, and has led climate finance projects with global organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Green Climate Fund (GCF), Greenpeace and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). In the corporate world, she has worked as a consultant on circular economy projects for Boomera, in São Paulo, and has conducted fair energy transition studies for the UK and Indonesian governments for Aquatera, a Scottish renewable energy project planning company.
Its approach is based on the conviction that a planet in balance is only possible when there is justice. For this reason, its work in climate finance centrally integrates the intersectionalities of gender and race as pillars for adaptation and mitigation strategies that connect society, nature and equity.