Meet the next-gen climate leaders within the Youth Climate Justice Fund | Nathan Méténier
Nathan (he/they) is a 24-year-old climate justice & LGBTQI2S+ advocate. He is the co-Director of the Youth Climate Justice Fund, the largest youth-to-youth participative fund on climate and environmental issues. Nathan served as the youth advisor to Antonio Guterres’ Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change from 2020-2023. He founded Generation Climate Europe - the largest coalition of youth-led networks on climate and environmental issues at the European level. Nathan was also the co-chair of the youth pre-COP26 and is a former Board member of the European Environmental Bureau and Youth and Environment Europe. He seats on the Advisory Board of the Goals House and the young leaders forums of both IKEA and Ørsted. He is also a 776 Foundation fellow awardee. In 2020, he was nominated with 5 other young European for the “Young European of the Year 2020” award. He graduated from Sciences Po in France and has a MA in environmental policy and regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
10 Nov 2024TRANSCRIPT
Making space for youth and Indigenous Peoples in climate activism | Archana Soreng, Skoll Fellow
Archana Soreng belongs to Khadia Tribe from India. She is the Former Member of the First United Nations Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change 2020-2023. She is a Climate Justice Advocate working on reclaiming spaces and amplifying the Perspective of Indigenous Community in the Climate Justice Discourse. As a Young Indigenous Women, she has been working across Global, Regional and National Level on Connecting Indigenous Youth, Research and Documentation on the Indigenous Knowledge and practices with respect to Climate Justice , Climate Action and Biodiversity Conservation. She has been working on Climate Justice with an Intersectionality of Land and Forest Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She is also working on making sure that Climate Finance and Climate Philanthropy is accessible to Young people and Indigenous Peoples.
23 Oct 2024TRANSCRIPT
Delta40 is reimagining how to find and fund female climate entrepreneurs | Lyndsay Holley Handler
Lyndsay Holley Handler has over 21 years of experience building, leading, and investing in high-impact businesses in Africa. Currently, Lyndsay is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Delta40, an investment group and venture studio investing in, building & scaling life-changing technology ventures in Africa. Lyndsay is also an Operating Partner at Equator, and is a Board Director for SunFi, PowerUp and Giraffe Bioenergy.
Before this, Lyndsay was CEO of Fenix International, a clean energy and fintech company that delivered life changing products to 5 million low-income customers in 9 countries across Africa with a team of over 1,000 employees. In 2018, ENGIE, the world’s largest independent electricity producer, acquired Fenix and Lyndsay worked with ENGIE to further scale ENGIE’s business across Africa.
Lyndsay has a BA from Stanford University and lives in Kenya with her husband and two children where they bike, hike and kayak as much as they can.
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Meet the next-gen climate leaders within the Youth Climate Justice Fund | Nathan Méténier
Published 10 Nov 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And we really need to make sure that politics and also young people coming from diverse communities are represented in places of power and can also be part of those decisions. And so that is what we do at the Youth Climate Justice Fund. We fund, restore, support young leaders. […]
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