Ana Paula Parente, Louis B. Sohn Fellow, 2009

Ana Paula Parente is a Brazilian attorney who worked for the Brazilian Public Attorney’s Office (called Ministerio Publico) as a legal assistant at the Environmental Law Center, where she was involved in all steps of environmental litigation. As a Louis B. Sohn fellow in Human Rights and Environment, Mrs. Parente worked with the Human Rights and Environment Program and conducted research in the impacts of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights, and the linkages between the right to development and the Clean Development Mechanism. She also helped to draft the Year-in-Review 2009 on Human Rights and the Environment for the Yearbook of International Environmental Law and the Compendium on Human Rights and the Environment to be published by UNEP.

Before starting her fellowship at CIEL, Ms. Parente received an LL.M in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School (2010), as a result of a scholarship granted by the University of Seville, where she pursued a Master in Constitutional Law (2008) and presented a thesis about “The Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment.” She was also a recipient of a scholarship granted by Programme Alßan, a high level scholarship program specifically addressed to Latin America. Mrs. Parente holds postgraduate degrees in Environmental Liability from the University of Castilla La Mancha (Spain, 2007), International and National Environmental Law from the University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil, 2005), and an MBA in Economy and Business Law from Getulio Vargas Economy and Public Administration School (Brazil, 2003). Currently, Mrs. Parente is working as a Project Officer at the International Law and Policy Freshwater Program at WWF-US.