Patricia Mae Paraiso is currently the Environmental Consultant of the Carbon Finance Support Facility (CFSF) of LANDBANK, which was established in order to provide financing and other services within the context of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project of World Bank. The CDM allows industrialized countries to invest in emission–reduction projects from other economically developing countries instead of extracting into their own emissions. In return, this should mitigate climate change while promoting sustainable development at the same time.

Patricia believes that climate change will be one of the biggest challenges of our time and we will face it together, as a community. The impact that climate change will have on the world will be massive and if we don’t act now, our future will be greatly hindered. We should all come together, the millennials, the cultural leaders, the scientists, the activists, and everyone in between so that we can build a sustainable future together.