This workstream will provide countries participating in the Santa Marta Conference with a state-of-the-art overview of the petrochemical stage of the fossil fuel value chain, its important role in the ongoing expansion of fossil fuel use; identify knowledge and governance gaps; and suggest elements for a potential roadmap.
Ana is an environmentalist who serves as an amplifier of voices from the Global South to global engagements. She is Brazilian and has been permanently living in Tanzania since 2010. Ana became an activist as a child during Rio1992, “the Earth Summit”, and built over 30 years of local, national, regional, and global advocacy. She is a Zero Waste implementer and plastic advocate with over 15 years of service in grassroots organizations aiming to create positive systemic change in the waste sector and build the foundation for a socially-just and climate-resilient world.”
Ana is GAIA’s Director of Global Plastics Program, providing leadership and strategic vision to GAIA’s international plastic policy work.
Ana is also the Executive Director with Nipe Fagio, in Tanzania. Nipe Fagio exists to drive systemic change in Tanzania and Africa. Systemic problems require systemic solutions that are socially inclusive, address historical social injustice, and are environmentally built and climate-resilient. We work in a three-pillar strategy, aligning DATA gathering, POLICY advocacy, and ACTION to achieve systemic change.
Delphine Lévi Alvarès (she/her) is the Global Petrochemicals Campaign Manager at CIEL, based in France. Her work focuses primarily on fostering synergies between movements fighting industries related to petrochemicals, building joint strategies, and aligning efforts to confront an industry that has become the lifeline of the fossil fuel industry.
Before joining CIEL in February 2023, Delphine served for over 6 years as European coordinator for the Break Free from Plastic movement. She played a central role in the movement’s foundation since its inception in 2016, uniting over 110 European organizations under a shared vision. She was a driving force behind the development of the movement’s strategy in 2016-2017 and was instrumental in shaping its petrochemicals workstream. In 2017, Delphine worked to create and coordinated the Rethink Plastic alliance for 5 years, a Brussels-based policy coalition working on plastic pollution across the EU, which played a crucial role in securing ambitious legislation on single-use plastics at the European level.
Delphine holds a Bachelor’s in History, a master’s degree in European Politics, and a master’s degree in Sustainable Development Engineering. She has been a guest lecturer in various academic courses, sharing her passion for advocacy, narrative change, and embodied leadership.
Andrés del Castillo has been the Senior Attorney for the Environmental Health Program of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) since 2020, supporting the Plastics Treaty Negotiations by providing Governments with legal guidance on the legal aspects of a legally binding instrument. He is also a member of the ILA Committee on Business and Human Rights
Andrés joined CIEL with more than eight years of experience in engaging with UN human rights monitoring institutions and multilateral environmental negotiations, as well as several years working in private sector and insurance law. He is an expert on Indigenous Peoples’ rights with a strong background in climate change, the environment, and business and human rights. His past work includes a mix of legal advising and strategic engagement with organisations like the European Union, the UN Global Compact, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum. He came to CIEL from the Indigenous Peoples’ Documentation Centre (Docip), where he spearheaded the process to be recognized by UNESCO as World Documentary Heritage, granted in 2017.
Andrés holds a bachelor’s degree in Law and from the University of the Sabana in Colombia, a Special Certificate in the master’s program in International Law from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, a Higher University Diploma in Law of the European Union, and a master’s degree in International Administration Law from the Université Panthéon – Assas (Paris II) in France.
Neil Tangri is a Senior Fellow at the Goldman School of Public Policy, where he works on international governance of environmental issues, particularly climate change and plastics. He has more than 20 years’ experience working on issues of waste, plastic, climate change, toxics, and environmental justice. He also has experience with carbon markets and international development finance. Neil is the Science and Policy Director at the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, a network of more than 1000 organizations in over 90 countries working toward zero waste and environmental justice.
Neil received his Ph.D. in Earth System Science from Stanford University, his B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College, and also holds a 200 ton master’s license from the U.S. Coast Guard.