Aiyesha is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in History and International Relations and is passionate about bringing young people forward to decision-making processes and discussions that have a social and environmental impact. In addition to this, Aiyesha has been working as a freelance writer for over two years. Based in the West Midlands, she dedicates her passion for sustainable fashion, climate restoration and youth advocacy within her writing. Her articles have been featured in Uprising, Studenteer, New Student magazine, Lead the Change and the Millennews newsletter based in Brussels.

Jude Andy was born and raised in Nigeria, he had his primary and secondary education in Nigeria. He also acquired a quite number of certifications in the humanitarian field mission and UN Field Mission by Peace Operations Training Institute, Procurement and Logistics by Mercy Corps, and Disaster Ready his has a passion for solving problems, now a Senior Certified Climate Restoration Advocate. A Front End Web Developer & Technology enthusiast.

Ayesha Shaikh is a resident of Sukkur, Pakistan, and an active alumna of Youth Leaders for Climate Restoration and she has served as a mentor twice at Foundation For Climate Restoration. She is an award-winning Human Rights Activist from The Diana Award built in memory of Princess Diana of Whales. As a law student, young leader, and global citizen, she aims to work on the betterment of her community and around the world by promoting quality education, gender equality, sustainable climate action and wellbeing, peace, and justice which can be done through partnership goals of sustainable development. Her mission to restore climate to the safe preindustrial levels of atmospheric CO2 has taken the shape of action. She says that “it is high time to consider  these effects as significant because the negative climate change can disturb personal and professional lives of people eventually affecting the economy of a country; instead of adapting the current changes, we should play our part in restoring the climate and making it easier for everyone including coming generations to survive and no one can do it better than youth. She also says, “when the Earth becomes sick, we all suffer because we as humans are the extension of nature.” The YL4CR helped her improve their advocacy skills and initiative conversations in her community around different themes of climate change, including mitigation effects which can be very destructive, and climate restoration resolutions globally. She can be reached at ayeshashaikh.co@gmail.com. 

Hello! My name is Elsie Jacobsen and I am a sophomore at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA studying Human and Organizational Development with a minor in Spanish. I am originally from Denver, Colorado and have always found peace in the outdoors from skiing to hiking to SCUBA diving. One of my greatest passions is to help promote and maintain the preservation of our climate and I want to work in a field that allows me to fight for climate restoration and preservation at the corporate level. At my university, I am currently involved with several climate preservation organizations (SPEAR and The Green Fund) and our divestment organization (Dores Divest) as well as many other clubs such as the Women’s Network, Women in Business, and Mentoradore.

Emet Zeitz is a 25 year old climate and sustainability enthusiast! Originally from the United States Emet is currently living in Portugal, working as a Business Developer for Net Zero Insights.  He has a strong technical and business background as a graduate of EIT InnoEnergy’s double degree master school in Sustainable Energy Systems. In 2019, Emet completed his Bachelors of Science in Physics before transitioning into the climate space. 

His passion is for understanding and supporting the technologies that are shaping a more sustainable future.

Ezekiel Nyanfor is a 22-year-old Liberian youth climate activist, entrepreneur, Founder, and Executive Director of the Liberian Youth for Climate Actions-LYCA a registered youth-based NGO residing in the Republic of Liberia. He is a Leader of climate change activities including World Environment Day, World
Earth Day, and World Conservation Day. He hosted the first National Clean Air Day held in Liberia. Notably, Ezekiel also runs an innovative program called Climate Daily Effects where every Friday of a week an African youth climate activist is featured to amplify their voices among others.
He is a Youth Ambassador of Earth Day Network under their campaign My Future My Voice with the theme: Restore Our Earth. Ezekiel was recently nominated as Young Green
Ambassador for the Climate in Africa 2020 Edition which was organized by Climate Change Africa Opportunities.
He is also a Senior Certified Climate Restoration Advocate with the Foundation for Climate Restoration(F4CR) and also the National Coordinator for ClimateScience a UK-based NGO focusing on climate education for all. Some of Ezekiel’s work includes a poem in honor of Mother Earth, awareness campaigns on world migratory bird day. He hosted a summit on World Environment Day under the theme: Stop Deforestation, bringing speakers together from different African countries.
He and his team hosted the first African Youth Conference on Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change (AYCBCCC) in 2020 which was a virtual conference in partnership with Earth Day Network, Youth Go Green Africa, Eco-Brix, and Delreport under the theme: Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change the role of the African Youth in Post
COVID-19.
Ezekiel also hosted the first National Clean Air Day (NCAD) held in Liberia on October 30 and November 27, 2020, respectively. Additionally, he was selected to represent Liberian youth during the Mock COP26, a
youth-led initiative aiming to mobilize around the postponement of the 2020 Conference of the Parties (COP) and to show world leaders what an ambitious yet realistic and inclusive COP looks like.
He is a Millennium Fellow of the 2021 Class hosted by the United Nations Academic Impact and MCN. Ezekiel was also selected as one out of the two Campus Directors at the University of Liberia to lead their cohort.

Fithriyyah is an Environment Youth
Activist, working since 2015 on Climate Change and Marine Debris Issues. She is a medical student from Tanjungpura University, West Borneo, Indonesia. She was involved in so many projects that related to youth empowerment and environment issues. She established & led Seangle Indonesia Chapter Pontianak, which aims to educate people who live alongside the Kapuas River to stop littering and empower youth to take action for a better environment. She is taking part as a youth advocate in Youth Voices for Climate Action (YV4CA) campaign & certified as Senior Certified Climate Restoration Advocate by Youth Leaders for Climate Restoration (YL4CR). Besides that, she has spoken at many international events, which the last one representing the youth in the 5th South-East Asia Multi-Stakeholder Forum 2021 by UN-ESCAP. Now, she is working on Seangle Indonesia as the Head of Communication, at the same time she is establishing & leading a project named Asia-Pacific Climate Project that promotes SDG 12-15 and providing an online platform for youth in Asia-Pacific to interact & engage in environmental issues.

Greetings from the lap of Himalaya. I am Govinda Katuwal, born and raised in Nepal. A final year student of Environmental Sciences, equipped with substantial knowledge of climate change and its related impacts threatening our existence. What I believe is that the lack of implementation of effective solutions is the main reason why we are still facing the devastating effects of changing climate. Everyone must play their role in order to wake up from this cause and give a better future to our descendants. I am an XV+ volunteer at Nepalese Youth for Climate Action, 28th Regional Ambassador for online environmental networking group Eco Generation, and now Certified Climate Restoration Advocate. And recently got selected to work as the Provincial  Project Incharge for Province No. 1 for the project ‘Hariyo Pusta” meaning “The Green Generation.” Also, I adore conveying the undiscussed topic of climate change through my writing.

GrÃce Promise Houndafoche – Holder of a professional master’s degree in
agronomy option pest management and biopesticide valuation, I am currently a volunteer for the NGO Page Verte Bénin and the Taskforfe Benin Youth 4 Climate (BY4C). Having a particular interest in the preservation of the environment, I am engaged in the field of scientific research which can lead to the proposition to the producers of the methods of biological control against the pests. Nominated, Green Climate Ambassador for Africa in 2020 by CCAO Network, I am passionate about the organization and implementation of activities related to climate restoration. I aspire to the creation of a better world with less greenhouse gas emissions, to a restoration of the climate while going through a green education of young people and an initiation of producers to the techniques of ecological agriculture.

Jonathan Jolly is a Certified Climate Activist who founded Circular Vibes Network, an organization that trains and mentors young people within the age brackets of 18 and 30 years old on Climate Change and Social entrepreneurship.

Kadiatu A Sheriff is a Liberian Youth
climate activist and the Climate
Education Coordinator of the Liberian
Youth for Climate Actions-LYCA . She
is also a public health practitioner and
an emerging social entrepreneur.
Kadiatu A Sheriff is very passionate
about achieving climate justice through education and sustainable actions . She believes that education is the way forward to achieving climate justice; because of this she utilize most of her time carrying out sensitization on the issues of climate change. She and her team is leading an action oriented advocacy in Liberia; promoting behavioral change by ensuring a population surviving on climate sensitive activities, learn about the negative effects of their activities on the environment and planet and what sustainable actions they need to take to safe planet earth.

Katherine Alexandra Cano Calderón – I am a biologist by profession with projection towards work in conservation and management of regional and national biodiversity. I have experience in the field thanks to my professional internships and volunteering, the latter have allowed me to develop skills such as teamwork, assertive communication and creating connections. Additionally, thanks to my work experience, I have put into practice my knowledge in wildlife monitoring and writing of multiple components of environmental impact reports.

Achievements:

• Mentor at Youth Leaders for Climate restoration
• MorroMico Project
• Ambassador in training for the Roots & Shoots program of the Jane Goodall Institute of Argentina

Mahib Reza is currently a student at Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh and a Certified Climate Restoration Advocate. As stated in his own words “I am working to make the world a better place”.

I’m Monika Akter Shikha from Bangladesh and currently a college student. There were many possible opportunities that came in my life. I’m now really grateful that I took part in this program. This organization changed my view of watching this world with a lot of amazing experiences and team and wonderful people. Maybe someday we, all the people, will bring some unthinkable change to this world. So give it a shot and I promise you that you’ll never regret it

The curiosity to know and the longing to travel makes me wake up to the light of a new day.

I’m up for a new challenge every day. Non profit enthusiast, research enthusiast, mental health advocate and Senior Certified Climate Restoration Advocate.

I am Priya Dominic from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. I am in the Legal Profession for over 5 years. I am the founder of APS LEGIS Climate restoration Awareness Center. The most interesting part about my career is that it deals with the growth of society directly. People’s Faith in the judiciary is based on legal practitioners’ and judges’ contributions to society’s growth and I am happy to be part of our judicial system. As a Climate Restoration Mentor, I firmly believe that it is the individual duty to protect natural resources from being exploited by the greed of the few. It is our duty to create awareness of the impact of climate change and the importance of mitigation and restoration. Thus, being part of the foundation for climate restoration gives me the strength and support to reach out to people to create awareness on climate change and the importance of climate restoration and mitigation. It is achievable and it is possible by unity.

“Making an impact”, is a phrase that may sound inordinate to most of us. But in reality, we all are making impacts every single day. Every action has an after-effect, and these are our decisions that lead to those actions. 

Saving the world is no more a movie character’s divine mission but the responsibility of all of us.

I, Sumaiya Tahsin being a high-school student of Bangladesh pledge to care and work for my mother earth the way any aware global citizen does. From my early teenage, I learned about the current climate situation which resulted in my awareness and further actions in promoting climate and environmental protection measures. Be it via making projects, spreading awareness to others, or at the minimum following the environmental rules by myself, nothing has ever been considered off-putting. 

And if you do feel the same sense of love and responsibility, then how come we be different?  

Ukange Ichivirbee is a Senior Certified Climate Restoration Advocate. He is volunteering with Foundation for Climate Restoration as project coordination and administration Intern, in which he is supporting the management of several projects, events, and activities, including sending reminders of upcoming deadlines, regularly communicating with team members, and supporting the scheduling of meetings. A graduate with Bachelor degree honors in Geography from Benue State University Makurdi, Nigeria. Ukange currently lives in North Central Nigeria.

Hello everyone! My name is Xinara Bascombe, born and raised in the small island of Barbados. I am proud to say that I am a member of Foundation for Climate Restoration and further a Youth Leader. My passion for the environment began at a veritably young age, getting furious when I saw people litter. Over the years, the talk about climate change, sustainability and carbon neutral became prominent words in the world and I realized that I can start making a difference from now as it is my future that is being imperiled. I therefore saw the need to become active in this important fight and decided that I wanted to pursue a career that will allow me to promote climate restoration, contribute to ideas and develop innovations to help the world in its sustainability efforts. I am currently pursuing my Bachelors Degree in Engineering, studying Civil with Environmental Engineering at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus , Trinidad and Tobago. I have represented Youth Leaders as a speaker and contributor in a TEDX discussion on the ‘Path to Restoring the Climate.’ I am a member of the Caribbean Youth Environmental Network based in Barbados and I have participated in the discussion to shape the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity. I will continue to use the skills that Youth Leaders for Climate Restoration has taught me as well as the skills and knowledge my degree will provide me with to ensure that I contribute to the mission of the world becoming carbon neutral by 2050. I will also apply this knowledge and my skills to help my country in its efforts as small island developing countries will face great threats if the world’s lifestyle does not change immediately. I want to say to others that every effort is vital and critical no matter how big or how small you as the individual can contribute.