Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change22 Sep 2021

Planting the Seeds of Inspiration - Ep55: Elizabeth Wathuti

Elizabeth Wathuti is a Kenyan environment and climate activist and founder of the Green Generation Initiative, which nurtures young people to be environmentally conscious and has planted 30,000 tree seedlings in Kenya. She grew up in Nyeri County, which has the highest forest cover in Kenya, planting her first tree at the age of seven and establishing an environmental club in her high school. She was part of the leadership of Kenyatta University Environmental Club (KUNEC) where she led tree plantings, clean ups and environmental education and education on climate change. She is a recipient of a Wangari Maathai Scholarship award for her outstanding passion and commitment to environmental conservation. She is also a full member of the Green Belt Movement, which was founded by the late Professor Wangari Maathai who is Wathuti’s role model and a big inspiration and influence. In 2019, Wathuti was awarded the Africa Green Person of the Year Award by the Eleven Eleven Twelve Foundation, and named as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans by the Africa Youth Awards. She has also been featured on the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust website.

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Fighting for Nuclear - Ep5: Kirsty Gogan

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Counting the Climate Cash - Ep4: Barbara Buchner

Barbara’s bio https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/people/barbara-buchner/Barbara on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara\_BuchnerGlobal Landscape of Climate Finance 2019 https://www.cli...

12 Aug 20201h 2min

Real Estate in the Crosshairs - Ep3: Antony Slumbers

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Investing in Climate Leadership - Ep2: Rachel Kyte

Further reading:Rachel’s biohttps://fletcher.tufts.edu/people/rachel-kyteThe Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tuftshttps://fletcher.tufts.edu/Fletcher’s School Dean Kyte’s statement on incl...

29 Jul 20201h 15min

Building Back Better - Ep1: Prof. Cameron Hepburn

What makes a green stimulus? What might a better metric for economic performance than GDP look like? Who is the faster cyclist, Michael Liebreich or Cameron Hepburn, Dean of the Smith School at Oxford...

22 Jul 20201h