Lucas Pretti
Lucas Pretti is a Brazilian journalist, art worker, activist and researcher. He has been a free culture advocate for over twenty years and has been involved in a wide range of commons-based initiatives fighting for power distribution and people's participation in decision-making.
He is currently the Communications & Advocacy Director at the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), from where he co-leads Open Goes COP, a coalition advocating for openness at the UN Climate Change Conferences.
He is also a PhD candidate in Arts, Literature and Cultural Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). His academic focus is on tracking and promoting commons-based practices among socially engaged communities, with a particular attention to horizontal governance models and emerging organisational aesthetics from the Global South.
Session
Join this session to hear from organizations who are collaborating on projects and initiatives to profile the role of open in addressing the climate crisis. We will profile successes to date, highlight upcoming projects, and invite participation in our community-driven Open Goes COP movement.
We believe that open access to climate change research will enable faster and more equitable solutions to the most pressing issues of our time: climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Our panel will provide a case study of enabling global open access policies and highlight our experimentations in making seminal climate research open access.