Nahla Haidar

Nahla Haidar

Nahla Haidar El Addal is one of the vice chairpersons of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

Astrid Puentes Riaño

Astrid Puentes Riaño

Astrid Puentes Riaño is a lawyer with more than two decades of experience in environmental law, human rights and climate change, and the intersection of these, with a perspective of climate justice, diversity, equity and inclusion

Legborsi Saro Pyagbara

Legborsi Saro Pyagbara

Legborsi Saro Pyagbara is executive director of the Indigenous Centre for Energy and Sustainable Development, ICE-SD.

Augustine Njamnshi

Augustine Njamnshi

Augustine Njamnshi is a lawyer with 26 years of experience in environmental policy and governance advocacy in Cameroon and the Central African subregion.

Tia Kennedy with her dog wading in stream

Why this Indigenous rights activist does not take clean water for granted

Across Canada, millions of people don’t think twice when turning on the tap. But Indigenous activist Tia Kennedy never takes a glass of water for granted.

Kera Sherwood-O’Regan in New Zealand

Climate change hits disabled and Indigenous communities hard. Kera Sherwood-O’Regan wants their voices heard.

When Kera Sherwood-O’Regan was young, her parents gathered the pito (umbilical cord) that had nurtured her in the womb, and, per tradition, buried it on sacred coastal grounds in Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand, alongside the remains of her ancestors.

Yeb Saño sitting in front of mural

To prevent future death and destruction, Yeb Saño is confronting the human rights violations that fuel climate change

For Yeb Saño, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia.

Pasang Dolma Sherpa

A changed landscape and lost traditions: One Nepali woman’s search for Indigenous solutions to climate change

Pasang Dolma Sherpa cherishes any time she can spend in Nepal’s mountainous region, where she grew up in a Sherpa village.

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye planting

Her family lost their farm in Uganda to climate change. Now she’s standing up for the future.

Climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye first experienced the impacts of climate change before she even knew what the term meant.

Walter Vergara

Walter Vergara

Walter Vergara is a climate specialist with longstanding interests in a variety of climate adaptation and mitigation topics.

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