The first ever international conference focused on transitioning off of fossil fuels took place in Santa Marta, Colombia in April 2026. It was a historic step, but also revealed just how difficult it will be to change entrenched systems.
Nina Lakhani
Nina Lakhani has reported from more than a dozen countries including six years investigating health scandals, deaths in custody and honor-based violence for The Independent newspapers in London and seven years freelancing in Mexico and Central America covering state-sponsored repression, consequences of the war on drugs, gender-based violence and the battle for natural resources. Most recently she spent six years as senior climate and environmental justice reporter for the Guardian based in New York covering the intersection between structural racism and poverty with extreme weather events, the climate impact of war, and the criminalization of defenders, as well unequal access to water, food and clean air across the US. She is the author of Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender's Battle for the Planet which has been translated into Spanish, French and Italian, and is a contributor to the 2025 anthology Gaza: the Story of a Genocide (chapter: Ecocide in Gaza). Before journalism she was a mental health nurse, and a proponent of trauma informed reporting. She is based in Mexico City.
