Adenike Oladosu portrait wearing striped colourful jacket against brown yellow background

Adenike Oladosu

Climate Justice Leader

Adenike is a first-class graduate in Agriculture Economics; an ecofeminist, and climate justice leader. In 2019, I was invited to the first-ever United Nations Youth Summit in New York, same year I was awarded the Ambassador of Conscience Award by Amnesty International for my fight for climate justice and human rights.

 

I have been a Nigerian youth delegate to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change's Conference of Parties since COP25 in Spain, and Madrid including COP26, COP27, and COP28. I have a blogspot called www.womenandcrisis.com where I have written over 60 articles with more than 100,000 readers worldwide since 2018. I have published articles in several international newspapers.

 

I was the first African climate justice activist to join the Fridays for Future movement in Africa to mobilize millions of people globally for climate action. I am leading a pan-Africa movement called “I Lead Climate Action Initiative.” A past fellow at The New Institute, Hamburg-Germany on black feminism and poly crises spotlighting a novel link between the polycrisis and carbon coloniality.

 

Recently appointed by Education Cannot Wait as its Climate Champion. I have also been showcased as a UNICEF young advocate in Nigeria. A past fellow of the Panel on Planetary Thinking at Justus Liebig University. Adenike was awarded the International Climate Protection award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on the Lake Chad peace and conflict resolution pathway.

 

I have used remote sensing as a technological tool to restore Lake Chad which has shrunk by 90% since the 1960s.