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India Logan-Riley / Aotearoa / New ZealandIndia has been conducting her activism in the climate justice space for years now. India is working to center Indigenous rights in the movement for climate justice by ensuring that Indigenous people gain rights over their land. She’s taken her message to the United Nations in talks that resulted in…

American Poet and Activist, Amanda Gorman​ 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman “stole the show” for her dramatic reading of her six-minute “The Hill We Climb” poem on January 20 before a global TV and online inauguration day audience. The poem celebrates the U.S. not as a “perfect union,” but as a country that has the grit…

Swedish Environmental Activist, Greta Thunberg  “The climate and ecological crisis can unfortunately no longer be solved within today’s systems,” said Greta Thunberg to the Davos Group in January. Thunberg, a Swedish teen and worldwide phenomenon, is now 18 years old and has become internationally known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action against climate change….

Greenpeace Executive Director, Jennifer Morgan Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan has said that “multilateralism can make a real difference in finding solutions. And these are valuable lessons as we turn to the bigger crisis upon us, the climate crisis.” In just five years, Morgan has been promoted from head of regulated businesses at SAP to overseeing all of…

Biden has vowed to make the issue of climate change a top priority in an agenda that reverses many Trump administration policies. Biden says he will re-join the Paris Climate Agreement immediately upon taking office and “put America back in the business of leading the world on climate change.” Alongside the Paris Climate Agreement, Biden will convene a climate summit…