Yllá Institute

 How ancestral knowledge, community care, and territorial identity shape our response to the climate crisis In the Global South, climate resilience is not just a technical strategy. It’s a lived practice. It’s the rhythm of communities who have long learned how to survive, in territories shaped by both beauty and struggle. As a Black woman from Bahia, Brazil, I don’t separate my understanding of climate from my sense of place. The mangroves, the tides, the wind, they carry memory. Our resilience is rooted in this relationship with the land and with each other. Where I come from, climate resilience looks like marisqueiras who protect the mangrove because they know it protects them. A legacy of persistence. It looks like youth organizing festivals that celebrate territory, identity, and resistance, turning pain into poetry. Justice is not just a concept printed in official frameworks. Climate justice is not officially recognized in most policy documents, yet it pulses in the daily li...