Gerry Arances is a long-term climate and environmental advocate. He has engaged governments, companies, and international and domestic finance institutions concerning the climate crisis and sustainability issues, and has worked with indigenous peoples, communities, and civic movements in tackling human rights and natural resource and minerals management issues.
Currently, Arances’s primary work concerns advancing energy transformation, ecological integrity, and people-centered development as Executive Director of the Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED), and as a convener of the Power for People Coalition, and the Withdraw from Coal, Protect VIP, and #WagGas campaigns