Nigeria’s minister of the Environment, Amina J. Mohammed was among 13 women photographed by Leading fashion and lifestyle magazine, Vogue, for a feature on the role of women in the ongoing UN climate change conference in Paris, France.
The would highlight the women playing various roles in the conference which is likely to yield the world’s first binding, universal agreement to cut carbon emissions and begin to address climate change
Amina J. Mohammed is a public sector strategist involved in crafting and implementing fiscal projects aimed at fighting poverty in Nigeria. A former UN millennium project coordinator with a focus on task education and gender inequality.
Other change making women include:
- Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim – Sahel, Chad
- Achala Abeysinghe – a legal adviser on climate change negotiations to the Chair of the Least Developed Countries from Sri Lanka
- Christiana Figueres – United Nations’s top climate change official from Costa Rica
- Dessima Williams: a long-haul climate activist who served as the Grenadian ambassador to the United Nations
- Laurence Tubiana – France’s ambassador for the international climate talks
- Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner – a poet and climate activist from the Marshall Islands
- Farhana Yamin – representing the Marshall Islands
- Rachel Kyte – Vice president of the World Bank Group and special envoy for climate change
- May Boeve – Executive director of the grassroots climate change organization 350.org
- Priscilla Achakpa – an environmental activist from Nigeria
- Elizabeth Yeampierre – Her organization, Uprose, led a 400,000-strong environmental demonstration last year in America
- Mindy Lubber- managing over 100 investors with above $10 trillion in assets
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