Elena Nalato graduated in 2021 in Law at Alma Mater University in Bologna, full marks with honors, presenting as her final dissertation a comparative analysis of judicial cases of recognition of the Rights of Nature. She has long been interested in Environmental and Climate Law. She also has relevant experience in climate change and DRR dissemination and worked for a consumer rights association. She lived in different cities in Italy and Europe.

The project aims to outline gender issues linked to climate change in existing cases of climate change litigation and to explore the opportunity of combining climate justice and gender equality claims in further legal actions. The cases are analyzed by applying Comparative Law methodology, focusing on legal standing and the role of gender issues in claimants’ requests and in judgments. Field research is planned to dialogue with the cases' actors.