Carlon Mendoza
Climate Policy Advisor - Climate Justice
Climate Diplomacy
Carlon is based in Trinidad and Tobago and supports the work of our Climate Diplomacy Team as Climate Policy Advisor–Climate Justice. His work currently focuses on just transition and the energy transition of SIDS, climate change law and policy, human rights, disaster law and disaster risk reduction.
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.Carlon is an attorney-at-law and legal consultant called to the bar in Trinidad and Tobago and Belize.
He 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"
