Cutting methane emissions quickly will improve our chances of avoiding tipping points and stabilising our climate. The methane workstream sessions are focused on proposing concrete actions to anchor methane mitigation as a core component of the TAFF processes to secure political buy-in, building ambitious strategies to make pulling the ‘’Methane Emergency Brake’’ inevitable and creating a convincing narrative about why methane is essential for the FFPO.
Anaid Velasco is a lawyer with more than twenty years of professional experience, she has focused her work on the research, design, and implementation of legal and public policy strategies in the field of environmental and climate justice, from an intersectional and human rights-based approach. Over the past decade, she has also developed extensive expertise on methane mitigation in Mexico, contributing to policy analysis, advocacy, and regulatory discussions on the role of methane and health in the energy transition and climate justice.
She currently serves as the Legal Research and Public Policy Manager at the Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA) and is a member of various commissions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). She previously served as President of the Mexican Committee of the IUCN and as Chair of the Board of Climate Action Network International. She has authored numerous publications for the Mexico Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, the National Human Rights Commission, the State Human Rights Commission of Jalisco, and the IUCN, among others.
In addition, she has taught at several institutions, including Universidad de las Américas A.C., the Institute for Legal Research at National Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of the Environment, the National Institute of Public Health, the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), and the Escuela Libre de Derecho.
Since 2008 Payal Parekh has been campaigning to stop climate change using a number of tools, ranging from advocacy to direct action, from mass mobilization to communications. From 2013-2018 she was the Global Programme Director at 350.org. As an independent consultant since 2019, she supports NGOs across the globe to develop winning strategies and facilitates interactive meetings on strategy and organizational development. She received training in facilitation from Training for Change.
Payal regularly writes commentaries and speaks to the media about the global climate movement, works with artists to tell the story of the climate crisis in new ways, and designs interactive workshops to train the next cohort of changemakers.
She has a Ph.D. in ocean chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.