Tomás Aboim

Junior Researcher, Just Transitions, IHRB

Expertise

Tomás is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is working to accelerate the just transition to a sustainable future by building multi-stakeholder engagement. Specialised in nature-based solutions as tools for climate justice and urban adaptation, Tomás' expertise also includes supporting project management, conducting research, preparing and facilitating classes, fundraising, and sustainable community development.

Current Work

As Junior Researcher for the Just Transitions programme, Tomás contributes to project implementations through research, literature review, case analysis, data collection and management, stakeholder mapping and engagement, and event preparations.

Before IHRB

With an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning and a BSc in Social Communications, both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Tomás has built a diverse professional career. He has worked in communications within the non-profit sector, venturing into a rural organic produce business, and before IHRB, as a Sustainability and Project Analyst with the Sustainable Favela Network, where he fundraised and supported projects aimed at sustainable community development and climate justice.