Ivonne is a founding member and current president of Acción Ecológica, one of the most well-known and respected climate justice organizations in Latin America, as well as a founder of Oilwatch Latin America, an oil activities resistance network. Ivonne works on energy, climate change and, more recently, environmental services. She has been an active promoter of the “Keep the Oil in the Soil” campaign for many years. She is emphatic about the impacts of false solutions on Ecuador and its people: “We also denounce from Acción Ecológica the false solutions from the market like CO2 emissions compensations, as well as other false solutions like geoengineering that carry a high risk to the life on the planet. All these false solutions enable the big polluters to get allowances to continue with their activities, contributing to global warming.” |