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Participants in ActNowFilm: Youth Climate Leaders as Agents of Change

Find out about the participants in the 2024 edition of ActNowFilm.


Factsheet

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ActNowFilm: Youth Climate Leaders as Agents of Change will premiere at COP29

Introduction

  • Christiana Figueres — Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2010-2016

Find out more about Christiana

Tipping Points and Planetary Systems

  • Professor Tim Lenton —Professor and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science and Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK
  • Bauro Lambourne — Member of the board of Tungaru Youth Action (TYA), Kiribati

Find out more about Tim and Bauro

Extreme Weather

  • Professor Sonia Seneviratne — Professor of Land-Climate Dynamics and Head of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich
  • Marinel Ubaldo — Regional Field Director for PowerUp NC and Co-Founder of the Institute for Youth in Climate Diplomacy

Find out more about Sonia and Marinel

Food Systems

  • Gernot Laganda — Director of the Climate and Resilience Service at the United Nations' World Food Programme
  • Dawda Cham — Deputy Executive Director of HELP-Gambia

Find out more about Gernot and Dawda

Loss and Damage

  • Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim — President of the Association of Fulani Women and Indigenous Peoples of Chad (AFPAT) and Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  • Nisreen Elsaim — Chair of the Sudan Youth Organization on Climate Change and General Coordinator for Youth and Environment - Sudan (YES)

Find out more about Hindou and Nisreen

Health

  • Professor Harry Rutter — Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Bath, UK
  • Alejandro Daly — Founding member of the Latin American Coalition for Clean Air and former Executive Director of El Derecho a No Obedecer
  • Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky — Climate justice advocate, artist, researcher and consultant

Find out more about Harry, Alejandro, and Sabrina

Nature and Biodiversity

  • Jennifer Morris — CEO of The Nature Conservancy
  • Dorcas Wakio Mugo — Founder of the Mazingira Pamoja Initiative

Find out more about Jennifer and Dorcas

Global Governance

  • President Mary Robinson — Founding member and former Chair of The Elders, and Co-Founder of Project Dandelion
  • Mariana Gomes — President and Founder of Último Recurso

Find out more about Mary and Mariana

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