Carlon Mendoza
Climate Policy Advisor - Climate Justice
Climate Diplomacy
carlon.mendoza@climateanalytics.org
Carlon is based in Trinidad and Tobago and supports the work of our Climate Diplomacy Team as Climate Policy Advisor- Climate Justice. Carlon is an attorney-at-law and legal consultant called to the bar in Trinidad and Tobago and Belize.
Prior to joining Climate Analytics, Carlon was the Research Officer with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Dutch and English speaking Caribbean. Prior to that, he served as the Legal Counsel for the Belize Tourism Board and has held the post of Magistrate with the judiciary of Belize. His work currently focuses on climate change law and policy, disaster law and disaster risk reduction in the Commonwealth Caribbean legal imagination.
Carlon is a graduate of The University of the West Indies, Cavehill, the University of Reading’s International Law with Development program, as well as a Chevening scholar alumni.
Publications
- Qui, K.Q., Mendoza, C.M. What does a just transition look like for Caribbean Small Island Developing States?. (2024)
- Climate justice: loss and damage and the right to development
- Aslanides, A., Ángel, A., Schleussner, C-F., Mendoza, C., Jones, D., Menke, I., Haynes, R. Advisory opinion on "Climate emergency and human rights"
