Elizabeth Wathuti is fighting for the lives and livelihoods at stake in the climate crisis

By Charlotte Kennedy

Elizabeth Wathuti, a Kenyan youth climate activist, urged the world’s decision-makers at COP26 last year, in what was one of the hardest-hitting speeches delivered at the UN climate change conference.

I remember her speech well. Last year was my first time attending a COP, and it shocked me how devoid of feeling the conference sometimes felt. The technocratic language had a way of sucking the life out of a room, but Elizabeth, or Liz, as she prefers to be called, breathed humanity back in.

Elizabeth Wathuti is fighting for the lives and livelihoods at stake in the climate crisis

By Charlotte Kennedy