The Independent Climate 100 List 2024
Exciting news! Our founder and co-executive director, Ayisha Siddiqa, has been featured on The Independent’s inaugural Climate 100 List 2024! This prestigious list recognizes change makers across the globe—activists, scientists, political leaders, and innovators—who are pushing boundaries to address the most pressing issue of our time: the climate crisis.
Read an excerpt from her feature below:
“At just 25 years old, Ayisha Siddiqa has achieved a lot as a human rights defender and climate activist. Born in Pakistan, she moved to Brooklyn as a child. At just 14, she saw the effects of climate change not only on the environment, but also on humans, after family members in Pakistan became ill from polluted river water. The links she saw between human rights and the climate crisis led her to get involved in climate activism, and she went on to found her university’s branch of Extinction Rebellion in 2019 and lead a strike involving 300,000 people.
In 2020 she co-founded Polluters Out, a global youth movement, and helped create an activist training course, the Fossil Free University. She contributed to The Climate Book, edited by Greta Thunberg, and continues to encourage young people to get involved in activism.”
"The wounded world is so beautiful, because she keeps producing life and my work is in defense of life. By default, it’s defense of the rights of women. Therefore, it’s also by default human rights.”
Interview in TIME Magazine, March 2023
