María José Rodezno

María José Rodezno is a consultant at Climate Focus, where she distributes her work supporting projects related to forests, land use, and carbon markets. Before joining Climate Focus, María José advised companies on integrating sustainable and climate-friendly strategies into their operations while completing her MSc in Sustainable Resource Management from The Technical University of Munich. During her master’s thesis, she joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Research and Innovation (ISI), where her research focused on Latin America’s scrap metal trade flows and the current state of the region’s recycling systems.

María José is very passionate about contributing to the climate movement in Latin America. She was part of the core team designing Honduras’ National Decarbonization Plan and is a volunteer with the Climate Action Network (CAN) Latin America and Sustenta Honduras. With both organizations, her work focuses on Action for Climate Empowerment and managing climate initiatives in Honduras.

In her free time, María José enjoys spending time in nature, reading, and practicing CrossFit.