Join us to hear about the sustainable initiatives implemented by the National Archives of Brazil!
Please join the Icon Sustainability Group on November 19, 2026 at 4pmGMT for a presentation by Luana Lobo dos Santos, Records Manager and Archivist at the National Archives of Brazil.
She will be discussing the Archives' development of multiple protocols designed to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Working with 27 regional archives and more than 50 community archives across exceptionally varied cultures and climates within Brazil, the National Archives have found ways to build more resilient environmental and social paradigms.
She will be offering practical solutions, share case studies, and provide resources to work across multiple barriers.
Archivist, Records Manager
Doctorate candidate in Information Science at the Graduate Program in Information Science at the Fluminense Federal University (PPGCI-UFF).
Luana holds a master’s degree in information science from the Graduate Program in Information Science at the Santa Catarina Federal University (PGCIN – UFSC) and a bachelor’s degree in Archival Science from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF).
Works as an Archivist at the Executive Secretariat of the National Archives Council on National Archive of Brazil (SE-Conarq/AN), researcher specialising in sustainability of archives, the carbon market, climate change - their impact on it - and participates in the research groups "Accessibility and Inclusive Management in Information Units" (ACEGI-UI/UFRJ) and "ECCOA – Archival Science and Society" (UFRGS), as well as projects such as the international technical cooperation with the UNDP (PRODOC BRA 23/021) involving the National Archives/MGI, and "Diversities in Scientific Archives: Representation and Reparations in Science and Technology Collections" (MAST/MCTI).