Hinako Arao
Hinako Arao is a staff member of an environmental NGO, 350.org. She works on building and expanding grassroots climate movement as a field organizer for 350 Japan. She has lived in Argentina, USA and UK where she attended high school, did her undergraduate studies and also worked as an actor and a director. After returning to Japan, she has worked as a freelance film and TV producer. She enjoys zero waste lifestyle, yoga, vegan cooking and exploring nature in Japan.
Livia Hollins
Livia Hollins is a climate change expert with 16 years of experience working in a variety of local, national and global level roles to advance meaningful action on climate change and sustainable development. She has experience across all aspects of climate change, including adaptation and resilience, mitigation, and means of implementation, as well as across all parts of the process to advance climate action, from science, research and systematic observation, to planning and implementation, through to monitoring and learning.
She previously led the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat’s work on SDG 13 as well as UN system and interagency activities, with a focus on supporting countries to implement the Paris Agreement and make the most of synergies in implementation of 2030 agenda and other post 2015 development agendas as well.
Livia is currently working as a consultant to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and advancing climate change resilience and sustainable development activities from her home country of New Zealand.
She worked with UN Climate Change for over ten years, and worked previously for the New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, as well as Science, Technology and Innovation, and Environment Ministries, and as a marine ecologist. She has qualifications in sustainability science and systems analysis, as well as ecology.