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The Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), a pan-African movement promoting girls' education, launched a new climate education program in schools in March, led by young women graduates.
Isabelle Axelsson (born 2001), young climate activist; Inger Holmlund (1927–2019), environmentalist active in tree-planting and craft projects for women in Kenya; Greta Thunberg (born 2003), climate change activist beginning school climate strikes in 2018
Yola Mgogwana (born 2008) is a South African climate activist from Khayelitsha, Cape Town. [1] [2]Mgogwana's activism started in 2019, when she was just eleven years old, after she became concerned about pollution, unusual weather patterns, and a looming water crisis in her country. [3]
Sophia Kianni (born December 13, 2001) is an Iranian-American social entrepreneur and climate activist. She is the founder and president of Climate Cardinals, a nonprofit offering climate change information in multiple languages, serves on the EPA's National Youth Advisory Council, and as an advisor to the United Nations. She is the youngest ...
These teen activists at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, went on to organize the March for Our Lives in support of greater gun control. [46] [47] In May 2018, Thunberg won a climate change essay competition held by Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. In part, she wrote: "I want to feel safe.
Licypriya Kangujam (Meitei pronunciation: [lisipɾija kaŋŋud͡ʒɐm]; born 2 October 2011) is a child environmental activist from India. [2] One of the youngest climate activists globally, she addressed world leaders at the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain, asking them to take immediate climate action. Licypriya ...
In October 2020, Nakate gave a speech at the Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture urging world leaders to "wake up" and recognise climate change as a crisis, tying it to poverty, hunger, disease, conflict and violence against women and girls. "Climate change is a nightmare that affects every sector of our lives," she stated.
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