POP Festival 2021 - Mexico and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)

On June 7 and 8, 2021, the POP Festival will focus on Mexico and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). There will be project presentations by youth, dialgoues and panel discussions with experts and indigenouc communities. Some topics of focus include environmental education, social technologies, renewable energies, sustainable management of natural resources, sustainable business management, POPs (persistent organic compounds), food security, youth climate leadership, indigenous youth leadership and so on.

The following are the goals of the POP Festival 2021 in Mexico and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC):

Showcase youth- and community-led action to Protect Our Planet and demonstrate and amplify successful models within the region.
Promote the exchange of local knowledge and develop capacities, while encouraging sustainable living across Mexico and the LAC region.

Encourage cross-sectoral and cross-generational learning and collaboration for finding solutions to address climate change.

This panel of experts aims to raise awareness and showcase different languages and culture from different indigenous communities in Latin America.

Speaker/Session	Format
Mtra. Margarita Miró Ibars, Consejala Muncipal de Carapeguá, Paraguay
Ceferino Kreigi, Ypetimy community of the Aché People, located in the district of Abai, department of Caazapa, Paraguay.	Address
Diego Toj, Active Member of the CRIMMS and Director of Art, Culture and International Tourism, Maya Mam, Soconusco, Chiapas * tbc	Address
Norberto Fandos, Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes, Paraguay	Address
Ana Poot Cahun, Indigenous woman, Mayan, Youth Deputy in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico	Address
Hilario Poot Cahun, Native speaker of Yucatec Maya, Translator and teacher, Marine Conservation without Borders, Mexico * tbc	Address
Bianca Orqueda, People, Etnia Nivaclé,Comunidad de uj'elhavos, Departamento Filadelfia Chaco, Paraguay	Address

This panel aims to raise awareness in the educational community in the care and conservation of the environment.

Speaker/Session	Format
Silvia Garza, Deputy, Chamber of Deputies, Mexico	Address
Dr. Antonio Garza Yta, Secretario de Pesca, Tamaulipas, Mexico	Address
Ing. Ernesto Polin Moreno, Director de Centro Telecom Correo, Mexico	Address
Lic. Hilario Poot, Native speaker of Yucatec Maya, Translator and teacher, Marine Conservation without Borders, Mexico	Address
Ing. Ana Hanhausen, Honorary POP Ocean Mentor, The POP Movement, Mexico	Address
Ricardo Delgado, POP Youth Leader, The POP Movement, Venezuela	Address
Johan Ramos, Professor, Warao ethnic group from Delta Amacuro State, Venezuela * tbc	Address
Antonio Garza Ita, Secretario de Pesca, Tamaulipas, Mexico	Address - Acuacultura para alimentación sustentable

This session will showcase climate action projects led by young people from across the Latin America region.

Speaker/Session	Format
Yatziry Paola Alfonso Santos, Reciclando para Ayudar, CONIGE A.C./ CEIGE Coatzacoalcos, México	Exhibit
Lucia Varela Molina, Colaborando por amor, CONIGE A.C. / COIGE Culiacán, México	Audio Visual
Adriana Lucía Manríquez Arguello, El deber de ser humano, CONIGE/CIGEMatamoros, México	Skill building session
María Lizbeth Gómez Santos, Aerogenerador ASP, Universidad Tecnológica de Nuevo Laredo, México (10 mins)	Poster
Nahid Pérez Ayala, Memorial Covid Park, POP Movement, México	Interactive Presentation

Speaker/Session	Format
Dr. Silvio Calgaro, Professor at the Federal University of Sergipe (Campus Sertão), Brazil	Address - Sertanejos Biodigesters
Dr. Alisson Oliveira, Adjunct Professor at the University of Sergipe, Campus Sertão, Brazil	Address - Sertanejos Biodigesters
Mtro. Roberto Ayala, Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes, Paraguay	Address - Simple technology in bee production
Ing. Mario Alberto Santís Ruíz, Tsotsil Etnia, San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico * tbc	Address - Ecological Stove
Kevin Morales, Resilience 2020, Mexico	Address - Ecotechnics

This panel aims to discuss and share knowledge under various subjects such as urban gardens, permaculture, dry coverage, associated crops, and crop rotation.

Speaker/Session	Format
Dra. Norma Patricia Muñoz Sevilla - Chairperson, Climate Change Council for the Presidency of the Mexican Republic, POP- IPN, Mexico	Address - Food safety concept
Dra. Blanca Estela Gutierrez Barba, PhD Education and PhD Biology, Researcher and Professor, IPN, Mexico	Address - Food education as an element of food security
Mtra. Eleonora Insunza, Co-Founder Cinema Planeta, México * tbc	Address - Permaculture, dry coverage
Lic. Luis Betancourt, Researcher of Indigenous and Environmental Rights of the Venezuelan Amazon, Venezuela	Address - Amazonia Venezolana
Ing. Mario Alberto Santís Ruíz, Tsotsil Etnia, San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico * tbc	Address - Edible mushrooms
Ana Poot Cahun, Indigenous woman, Mayan, Youth Deputy in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico	Address - Creole seeds, Mayan cornfield
Susana Delgado, activist and POP Youth Leader, México	Address - Urban gardens as a solution to droughts
Nancy Camila Michelle Jiménez Macías, CUCEI, México * tbc	Address - Urban crops vs extensive crops

Youth is a fundamental sector on climate action, this Youth Panel has the aim of showcasing challenges and solutions that Climate Youth Leadership are facing in the new COVID era.

Speaker/Session	Format
Omar Montero, POP Youth Leader, Venezuela	Address
Maria Milagros, POP Youth Leader, Venezuela *tbc	Address
Alejandra Yareth Fragoso, POP Youth Leader, Mexico	Address
Karol Moreno, POP Youth Leader, Mexico *tbc	Address
Arnoldo González, Co-founder and General Director, CONIGE, Mexico -Avelina Calles Fragoso	Address
Edson Castro Bautista, National President, CANAJOPMX, Mexico	Address
Andrés David Barragán Hernández, POP Youth Leader, Colombia	Address
Ibrahi Rodriguez, Youth Leader, EarthX, Colombia	Address
Maria Fernanda Torres, Youth Leader, EarthX	Address
Silvia Bautista Cantu, Youth Leader, EarthX	Address

This session aspires to serve as a platform to simultaneously address SDGs and highlight global initiatives that can be subsequently adapted at local levels, creating networks with other like-minded organisations and youth. As its objectives, the session aims to enhance knowledge about sustainable development issues; promote ecopreneurship opportunities to address environmental challenges; foster collaborative thought processes and have a network of interconnected youth with shared vision and responsibilities; adapt and adopt innovative ideas for bringing about a sustainable change.

Speaker/Session	Format
TERI Team Panel from India, Paris, and Mexico	Panel

The session will witness the coming together of five expert panelists from different parts of the world who will discuss and shed light on the importance of marine biodiversity, the threats faced by it and some of the effective solutions that can be implemented to protect it. The session will bring in perspective of different stakeholders - from environmental experts, to organizations focused on marine conservation, leaders and youth advocates. The session will conclude with an interactive dialogue between the participants and the panelists, with a focus on identifying different strategies and solutions that can be adopted for the conservation of our marine biodiversity.

Speaker/Panel discussion	Format
Dr. Christine Figgener, Director of Science and Conservation, Coasts ( 15 minutes)	Address
Uttama Anderson, Volunteers Coordinatorand, Parvati Foundation (15 minutes)	Address
Marisa Lopez, Founder, Bluer Future (15 minutes)	Address
Salma Valeria Macias Torres, SOA, Mexico (15 minutes)	Address
Concluding the session (15 minutes)

This space aims to discuss health problems in indigenous communities conditioned by contact with pesticides and agricultural inputs, as well of illegal agrochemicals, negative components for health, affecting mental health.

Speaker/Session	Format
Dr. Ash Pachauri, POP Senior Mentor, The POP Movement	Address
Dr. Silvio Calgaro, Professor at the Federal University of Sergipe (Campus Sertão), Brazil	Address
Dr. Alejandro Aarón Peregrina Lucano, Professor and Researcher at CUCEI, Mexico	Address
Mtro. Roberto Ayala, Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes, Paraguay	Address
Melina Maldonado, Etnia Mayo-Yoreme, Ahome Sinaloa, México	Address
Johan Ramos, Professor, Warao ethnic group from Delta Amacuro State, Venezuela	Address
Lic. Luis Betancourt, Researcher of Indigenous and Environmental Rights of the Venezuelan Amazon, Venezuela	Address

This workshop has the objective of creating a Youth Movement to promote Climate Action in different indigenous communities from the amazonia Venezolana.

Speaker/Session	Format
Dra. Norma Patricia Muñoz Sevilla - Chairperson, Climate Change Council for the Presidency of the Mexican Republic, POP- IPN, Mexico	Workshop
Dr. Ash Pachauri, POP Senior Mentor, POP Movement, USA
Lic. Luis Betancourt, Researcher of Indigenous and Environmental Rights of the Venezuelan Amazon, Venezuela
Lic. Vanessa Anahí Hernández Vázquez, POP Youth Mentor, Mexico
30 Youth of three different sectors (landscape potential for tourism; Agro Production and Biodiversity)

This session will showcase climate action projects led by young people from across the Latin America region.

Speaker/Session	Format
Brian García Laureano, Desarrollo de la Conciencia, Formación Moral y Ambiental, CONIGE A.C./ CEIGE Huetamo, Mexico	Exhibit
Norberto Martínez Flores, Adriana Lucía Manríquez Arguello, Mayte Garza González Educación para todos, CONIGE/CIGEMatamoros, Mexico	Performance
Alexia Muñoz Delgado, Desecho correcto de medicamentos en México, CUCEI, Universidad de Guadalajara, México	Interactive presentation
Quetzalli Fernández González, Abril Tapia Luciano, José Manuel Valencia Bollas, Educación para la sustentabilidad,	Poster and Interactive presentation
Alejandra Yareth, “Prioridad”, The POP Movement, Mexico	Interactive, hands-on learning
Manuel Parra, Parque Temático "Vitrina Ecológica", FUNDEICO, Venezuela	Video
Luis Eduardo Vazquez Cruz, Norberto Isaac Díaz Andrade, Ricardo Alonzo Cervantes Rodríguez, “Desarrollo de módulo externo mediante panel fotovoltaico para carga de celulares en el sector educativo”, Universidad Tecnológica de Nuevo Laredo.	Interactive presentation
Alejandra Karolina lozano andrade, Elliot Daniel Del Ángel Ortega, Juan Pablo Ávila Guerrero, Miguel Ángel Barraza Ortiz, Organización ambiental del estado de Durango, México	Poster and photography

This session seeks to showcase the different approaches to monitoring the Persistent Organic Compounds (POPs) in Mexico including matrices like breast milk, air, and water, and present studies that become scientific tools for decision making and for formulation or revisiting public policies in Mexico.

The Stockholm Convention provides a series of control measures on the production, import, disposal, use, and elimination of Persistent Organic Compounds (POPs), with the aim of protecting health and the environment. Mexico signed the agreement on May 23, 2001 and became the first country in Latin America to ratify this agreement which entered into force on May 17, 2004. POPs are toxic and bioaccumulative chemicals in organisms that cause adverse effects on human health and the environment. They are highly volatile (they disperse in the air /environment) and due to their persistence, they can travel long distances, before being redeposited.

Speaker/Session	Format
Dra Diana Escobedo Urías, Professor-Researcher, IPN-CIIDIR Sinaloa, Mexico	Address - Detection of COPS in wild ecosystems and organisms of the Gulf of California.
M en C. Victoria Conde Avila, Doctorate in Biotechnology and Researcher, UPAEP, Mexico	Address - Cell immobilization of azotobacter in the degradation of some POPs (UPAEP)
Dra. María del Carmen Martínez Valenzuela, Director of outreach and internationalization UAdeO, Mexico	Address - POPs in Breast milk
Biol. José de Jesús Huichapan Martínez, UAdeO, Mexico	Address - POPs in water
M en C. Luis Omar Masias, Environment and Health Research Unit, UAdeO, Mexico	Address - DNA methylation as a potential biomarker of COPs monitoring in agricultural areas
Ing. Marisa Dei Apodaca, Environment and Health Research Unit, UAdeO, Mexico	Address - Cops in air
Dr. Gabriel Castro, Genotoxicology Laboratory, UAdeO, Mexico	Address - Obesity and POPs

This panel has the aim to bring together experts and youth leaders to discussed different solutions on implementing renewable energies in Mexico.

Speaker/Session	Format
Dr. Adrián Fernández Bremauntz, CEO, Climate Initiative of México	Address
Mtro. Mauricio Bonilla, Pacto Global Mx, México * tbc	Address
Mtro. Leonardo Beltrán, Board Member of SEforALL, Board Member of Fundacion Por Mexico, Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute of the Americas, Executive Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary	Address
Dr. Raúl Eric Talán Ramírez, General Director of Trust for the Saving of Electric Energy, Mexico	Address - Energy efficiency
Ing. Avelina Calles Fragoso, Deputy Director General and Co-Founder, CONIGE, Mexico	Address
Ing. Oscar Eduardo Delgado Santana, Automation Engineer, Continental Automotive, Mexico	Address
José Ángel Martínez Bautista	Address
Gustavo Jair Carballo Rodríguez	Address

The objective of this activity is to externalize from the point of view of experts the importance of sustainable business training institutions that contribute to the diagnosis of causes, evaluations and efforts to sustainable solutions or value-added improvements in conjunction with the students who are added from volunteers in these types of companies, as well as emphasizing from both points of view the skills and attitudes that these institutions form to the boys, being a factor of economic and social development.

Speaker/Session	Format
Dr. Manuel Díaz, Founder, FUNVIVE, Venezuela	Address
Mtro. Miguel Mendivil-Roiz, CONIGE, Mexico	Address
Mtro. Raul Montiel Calderón, CONIGE, Mexico	Address
Mtra. Nayelly Hernández Crespo, CONIGE, Mexico	Address
Debora Martínez, Ex-Presidente CONIGE-Ciudad Madero, Mexico	Address
Felix Hernández, Presidente CONIGE-Culiacán, México	Address
Adriana Arcilla, Ex-Presidenta CONIGE-Mérida, México	Address

Time	Speaker/Session	Format
11:30 CST/12:30 EST (VENEZUELA, PARAGUAY)	MARLENE GUZMÁN, Think-e	Master Class

Time	Speaker/Session	Format
14:20 CST / 15:20 EST	Adrián Alexandro Rodríguez, Earth-X	Master Class

Mexico and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) – June 7-8, 2021

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