Terra Friedrich Budini is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), where she also teaches in the Master’s Program in Global Governance and International Policymaking. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of São Paulo and an M.A. in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program (Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP). Her research focuses on global climate governance, political ecology, and the spatial dimensions of international politics, with attention to socio-environmental conflicts, territorialities, and connections between global and local scales.