Maria Eduarda is a Junior Climate Action Analyst at WRI Brasil, where she is part of the Climate team and contributes to research and studies on climate change, adaptation, sectoral mitigation, and Brazil’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. She also participates in activities related to Brazil’s Long-Term Strategy (LTS) and works on the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) agenda, focusing on developing public policy recommendations for its implementation in the country.

She holds a degree in Environmental Management from the University of São Paulo (EACH-USP). For two years, she was part of a research group at the Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI)—affiliated with USP’s Institute of Energy and Environment—where she focused her studies on carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies (CCS, CCUS, and BECCS) and Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).