Laura Restrepo Alameda is an educator and a young leader of the Earth Charter International. She currently serves as Advocacy Officer at the Climate Action Network Latin America (CANLA), where she drives bi-regional processes on just transition, climate justice, and cooperation between Europe and Latin America, accompanying multilateral spaces. She is co-founder and national co-facilitator of the Colombian Platform for Children and Youth, an organization that advises LCOY Colombia and promotes the participation of girls, adolescents, and young people in climate action. She is also part of the regional front of World’s Youth for Climate Justice, where she advocates for the recognition of climate change as a human rights issue.
She became involved in environmental issues at the age of 14, in education at 17, and in peacebuilding at 21, convinced that climate change is not only an environmental crisis but a complex crisis arising from the way humans manage their motivations for growth and their conflicts, where ethics becomes the last decision-making tool. As a volunteer, Laura serves as Vice President of Strategic Development at SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Development). She is an Ambassador of the Institute for Economics and Peace and of the En-ROADS Simulator (MIT + Climate Interactive). She was recognized as “Epic Woman 2022” by Level Magazine and received the ITRI Visionary Young Leaders Award in 2023.
