Lautaro CarranzaNon-economic loss & damage · La Plata, AR

I (Lautaro Carranza) work on the losses nobody can price

Researcher and youth advocate from La Plata, Argentina. Between astronomy and geophysics classes, I work with the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition so these losses make it into the UN climate talks.

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Some losses never show up on a balance sheet

When a flood hits, someone counts the houses and the harvests. Almost nobody counts the language that stops being spoken when a village relocates, or the cemetery that ends up underwater. Those are non-economic losses. I research them, and push for them to be counted in the UN climate talks.

What is loss and damage?

The impacts of climate change we can no longer avoid or adapt to. Some can be priced, like houses or crops. Others can’t: lives, health, culture, territory. The UN set up a fund for it in 2022.

Non-economic losses are demand 10 of the 13 LDYC brings to COP31. Read the demands ↗
Loss · tap a shapeLoss · hover a shapePrice
Language—
Spoken a little less every time a village relocates.
TotalDoesn’t add up

I work across a few youth networks

From La Plata to the COPs

La Plata · 34.92°S
Since 2023
Jóvenes por el Clima Argentina
Started out teaching climate education to 12-to-19-year-olds in La Plata. Today I’m the local general coordinator.
2023
RCOY, Colombia
Co-led the loss and damage group at Latin America’s regional youth conference. We gathered 31 good practices from across the region, and that work brought me to LDYC.
2024
Escazú COP3, Chile
My first COP. With ENJUVES, I handled logistics and finance so 35 Indigenous young people from across the region could take part.
2025
Co-founded Tierra Nuestra
The environmental chapter of the International Youth Conference. That year I also coordinated logistics for a UNICEF-backed program that trained 150 young people in five provinces.
Nov 2025
COP30, Belém
Distinguished Speaker at the High-Level Dialogue on Natural Rights–Led Governance, plus panels at TED Countdown House and the Thailand Pavilion.
Lautaro outside the COP30 venue in Belém
Belém · Nov 2025
Lautaro speaking at a youth panel during COP30
Youth panel · COP30
Jan 2026
Certificate of Excellence from LDYC
For my work in its advocacy working group, two months after Belém.
LDYC Certificate of Excellence presented to Lautaro Ezequiel Carranza, January 2026
LDYC · Jan 2026
Aug 2026
Opened the Loss and Damage Academy
Gave its first session, Loss and Damage 101, to 200+ young people from the frontlines, and co-facilitated the one on finance.
LDYC poster for the first Loss and Damage Academy session, with Safiya Yakubu and Lautaro Carranza, consultant on non-economic loss and damage
Session 1 · 14 Aug 2026
2026
Policy brief on non-economic losses in Honduras
Co-leading it with Elena Kemkes in LDYC’s research group, connecting lived experience with the Escazú Agreement.
Nov 2026
COP31, Antalya
Back in the negotiation rooms, following the loss and damage fund with LDYC.
Lautaro at a negotiation table during COP30
In the negotiation room · COP30
↓ Antalya
“The COP, where my rights will be discussed, isn’t accessible to young people.” On CLACSO TV · Nov 2025 · translated from Spanish

Listen & watch

Podcast Acter · Mar 2024Hack The SystemTwo activists talk about loss and damageListen on Apple Podcasts ↗ Video CLACSO TV · Nov 2025Why COPs are still out of reach for young peopleWatch on YouTube ↗ Podcast UNICEF × Spotify · 2025On My MindOn the review team of a UNICEF podcast on youth mental healthRead the story ↗

This COP, the fund has to reach people

The loss and damage fund has around US$500 million paid in and almost US$3 billion in requests. The first allocation, for Nepal, was approved in October and hasn’t been disbursed yet. I’m in Antalya with LDYC to push for that money to arrive as grants and go straight to the communities that need it.

1,500+young people in LDYC, from 100+ countries
200+joined the first Academy session I opened
13youth demands LDYC brings to COP31
US$2.8Brequested from the loss and damage fund

Today in AntalyaMon 9 Nov, day 1 of 12: Food, agriculture & health

  1. Mon9Food
  2. Tue10Energy
  3. Wed11Leaders
  4. Thu12Leaders
  5. Fri13Finance
  6. Sat14Youth
  7. Sun15Culture
  8. Mon16Science
  9. Tue17Nature
  10. Wed18Social
  11. Thu19İmece
  12. Fri20Final
Where to find meNext · Fri 13 · in 4 days
Fri 13
Finance & trade dayFollowing the loss and damage finance talks
Sat 14
Children & youth dayYouth day at COP31
TBC
[Side event — add when confirmed]Title · room · 00:00 Antalya / 18:00 Argentina
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Antalya · TRT22:01Where I am this week
La Plata · ART16:01Home · 6 h behind

6 h apart · probably catching up after sessions

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