Vanessa Nakate

Vanessa Nakate is a Ugandan climate activist who founded the Rise Up Movement. She advocates climate justice and greater attention to the effects of climate change in Africa.

Greta Thunberg: Swedish climate activist whose school strike for climate helped inspire a global youth movement. Nakate and Thunberg have both become prominent voices in youth climate activism.
Fridays for Future: An international youth-led climate movement that began with school strikes inspired by Greta Thunberg. Nakate’s early climate strikes in Uganda drew on the school-strike model.
Climate justice: An approach to climate action that addresses unequal responsibility for and harm from climate change. Nakate argues that climate responses must account for unequal impacts on African communities.
Climate journalism: Journalism that reports on climate change, its causes, effects, and responses. Her experience with news coverage has made media representation part of her advocacy.
Climate colonialism: A critique of climate action that reproduces unequal power relations rooted in colonial history. Nakate’s calls for climate justice connect present-day climate harms with unequal global power.
Elizabeth Wathuti: Kenyan environmentalist and climate activist who founded the Green Generation Initiative. Wathuti and Nakate foreground African perspectives in climate advocacy.
Climate strikes: Public demonstrations, often led by students, that demand action on climate change. Her activism first gained visibility through regular public climate protests.
Climate communication: The study and practice of communicating information about climate change to public audiences. Her speeches and writing bring African climate impacts into international public discussion.
Media representation: The ways people and groups are depicted, included, or omitted in media. A cropped photograph of Nakate at the 2020 Davos meeting became a high-profile example of omission.
Loss and damage: Climate-related harms that cannot be avoided through mitigation or fully addressed through adaptation. The concept captures demands for support to communities facing severe climate impacts.

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