Esperanza Garcia: Public Speaker

Speaking Experience: Youth Mobilization & Global Climate Governance

Esperanza Garcia is invited to speak at international conferences, including the UN, on the importance of young people’s engagement in global affairs and environmental sustainability. The topic she presents on "Youth Mobilization and Global Climate Governance" tells the story of how our young generation is mobilizing to find solutions of the greatest challenges our time. In this talk, she will highlight how young people engage themselves in international affairs, politics, and international climate negotiations and how they impact the progress of these events. She also gives examples on how their international experience inspire, empower, and motivate these young leaders in making a difference in their own communities and home-country.

Tedx Richmond, Speaker (Indiana, 2013)
NYU Climate Change Think Tank, Speaker (NYC, 2013)
Rio+20 and Women’s Lives: a Cross-generational Dialogue with President May Robinson of Ireland, Speaker (Rio de Janiero, Brazil 2012)

2nd Annual Environmental Law and Justice Symposium, Keynote Speaker (Florida, USA)

Pre-World Leadership Online Conference, Main speaker

Unipro Summit , Speaker (New York, New York)

Ateneo University National Environmental Forum, Keynote Speaker (Manila, Philippines)

8th Annual Youth Assembly at the UN, Speaker, (UN Headquarters, New York)

Climate Hero Forum, Speak, Facilitator, Moderator, & Slave (Philippines Apr - May '10)

United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention COP15 & COP16,

Official delegate of the Philippines (Copenhagen, Denmark ’09 & Cancun, Mexico ‘10)

Conference of Youth 5 & 6 , Speaker & Moderator (Copenhagen, Denmark ’09 & Cancun, Mexico '10)

RAFI Climate Change Forum, Keynote Speaker (Cebu, Philippines)

Clinton Global Initiative, Journalist (New York, USA 2009 – 2010)

Annual Youth Assembly at the UN, FAF Youth Leadership Award, Moderator, Organizer ( 2008 - 2010 UN Headquarters, New York)

UNICEF/Oxfam, Youth Journalist & Blogger (New York, New York)

The Global Summit, Scholar & Youth Chair (San Francisco, CA)

Ban Ki-Moon at the World Leaders Forum in Columbia University 2012

Rio+20 interview with Richard Branson

Moderating a panel at UN Informal-Informal on UN Conference on Sustainable Development April 2012

Interview with Heather Graham at the Premiere of Age of Stupid
New York, New York. September '09.

UN Climate Change Conference, COP15. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dec '09

Climate Hero Forum
Jan - May '10

Earth Day Jam Concert, Manila, Philippines. April '10

Moderating a panel on Climate Change for the 7th Annual Youth Assembly
UN Headquarters, NYC. Aug '10.

RAFI Forum on Global Climate Politics. Cebu City, Philippines.
November '10

With Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland, and my inspiration and dear friend, Constance Okollet, a farmer from the Tororo district in eastern Uganda - the real face of Climate Change at the Green Belt Movement and the Nobel Women's Initiative "Women's Leadership on Climate Justice and the Grassroots Perspective" (COP16 side event)