Human-rights lawyer, refugee legal aid
Lawyer with 12 years of pro-bono refugee work across Romania and Greece. I draft legal templates and train volunteers to help asylum seekers navigate appeals.
Trains volunteers for two NGOs to support asylum seekers through first-instance interviews and appeals.
Bucharest Bar. Specialism in EU asylum and family-reunification law.
Cities distribute free starter kits to households containing reusable bags, a countertop compost bin, a recycling guide for the local system, and coupons for refill stores. Lowers the barrier to entry and makes the first step easy.
Require that new residential developments above a certain size include 15-20% affordable units. Developers can alternatively pay into an affordable housing fund. Cities like Montreal, New York, and London use this approach to ensure new construction contributes to affordability rather than displacing it.
Create a municipal platform where small businesses can purchase verified local carbon offsets—tree planting, building retrofits, methane capture from waste facilities. Keeps offset dollars in the community and creates local green jobs. Businesses get a visible "climate-positive" certification to display.
Pass legislation giving tenants and condominium owners the legal right to install EV charging stations, overriding landlord or homeowner association objections. Pair with a standardized cost-sharing mechanism so building owners are not burdened unfairly. France, Germany, and several US states have enacted right-to-charge laws, and adoption rates in buildings covered by such laws are 3–5x higher than comparable buildings without them. Under current Swiss law (Article 260a Code of Obligations), tenants have no recourse if a landlord refuses charging installation.
Permanently store captured CO2 by mineralizing it into concrete and other construction materials. The CO2 reacts with calcium and magnesium compounds and becomes rock — permanently sequestered. Neustark, a Swiss ETH spin-off, operates 19+ plants across Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Germany doing exactly this, with over 2,500 tonnes of CO2 removed to date and a target of 1 million tonnes by 2030. The resulting concrete performs equivalently to conventional products, creating a circular economy link between carbon removal and construction.
Use targeted subsidies to fund the planting of at least two climate-adapted tree species per intervention in declining communal forests. In Alsace this is delivered through the Collectivité européenne d'Alsace's "Forêts d'Avenir d'Alsace" program, which has been running since 2021 and explicitly targets the Sundgau among other declining areas.