Emelina Corrales
Emelina Corrales is Marine Biologist with a Master Degree in International Environmental Law and a Certified Senior Coach. She is a visionary of possible futures, with her knowledge and abilities she supports individuals and companies to envision their individual path or the path of an organization embracing consciousness. For more than 20 years she worked with NGO’s, Universities and the private sector, in sea turtle conservation, deep sea research and in coastal and marine management. Her mission is to support the understanding of the Ocean and share her wisdom. She is an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing in the Plum Village Tradition and she is a founder member of the Sacred Earth Council as well as the co-creator of the Politics of Being, She lives in the South of France with her husband and two daughters besides Plum Village, the Mindfulness center and Monastery founded by the venerable Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Being Leaders | In Conversation with Christiana Figueres
Journal Article
“When I took my position as the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, we were all demoralized. Nobody, including me, believed it was possible to achieve a global climate agreement in our lifetime. When I heard myself saying this, I realized that nothing would be possible if we didn’t shift this mindset and change the narrative.”
Ocean of Wisdom
Journal Article
I call the Ocean ‘grandmother’ because life was created in her waters some 3.5 billion years ago, and a little bit later the continents also emerged. These are the beginnings of the Biosphere as we know it today, whose secrets lie deep within her. Slowly but surely, the first photosynthetic organisms started releasing tiny bubbles of oxygen from her depths into the atmosphere. The ocean’s oxygen production continues to this day and according to NOAA, phytoplankton produces up to 50% of the oxygen on Earth.