Hello readers. Welcome to #Women4theClimate on CleanbuildVoices!
It’s another Wednesday and you know what that means. You guessed right! Another interesting reveal of our Woman Crush of the day.
For this week, we have two women crushes and they are none other than Thandile Chinyavanhu and Awa Traoré.
Thandile Chinyavanhu
Thandile Chinyavanhu is an environmental and social activist based in South Africa.
She works as a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Africa and is part of the Quote This Woman+ database of experts that work towards ensuring gender diversity in the media and beyond, by curating a database of voices like hers for journalists to use when they need an expert opinion.
She writes about public health, energy access, climate mitigation, and the intersectionality of climate change, particularly its impacts on women of color.
She helps guide development in a sustainable manner by influencing and aiding SMEs in taking into consideration matters of compliance, the environment, and the possible externalities their activities have on climate change, health, and natural resources.
She aims for a future where urban spaces are designed to provide the public with living spaces that are conducive to health, where their well-being is not threatened by looming natural disasters and resources such as potable water, waste management systems, reliable transport systems, and attractive spaces are accessible.
Awa Traoré
Awa Traoré is a Senegalese climate and social justice advocate. She is an Oceans, Plastics and Biodiversity Campaigner at Greenpeace Africa, and leads Greenpeace International’s Racial Justice Global Project.
She is also the National Assembly and Chairman of the Parliamentary Network for the Environment in Senegal (REPES), and the winner of the 2021 Green Awards ‘Most Influential Young Women’ Prize.
Awa Traoré is very vocal about the struggles for climate, economic, gender, and racial justice – and how they all connect and intersect.
She believes the focus should be on the causes of the environmental crisis and shifting the historic responsibility towards global south countries.
According to her, there needs to be a fight with a joint agenda that will do good to the environment and keep justice and humanity at the center of the struggles to overcome the climate emergency.
Watch this space as we’ll be back for another edition of our #Women4theClimate.