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Adenike Oladosu

Adenike Oladosu

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Adenike is a first-class graduate in agricultural economics, an ecofeminist, and a climate justice leader.

In 2019, she was invited to the first-ever United Nations Youth Summit in New York. The same year, she was awarded the Ambassador of Conscience Award by Amnesty International for her fight for climate justice and human rights. She has 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.

On the blog called www.womenandcrisis.com she has written over 60 articles with more than 100,000 readers worldwide since 2018. Her articles have been published in several international newspapers. And she is leading a pan-Africa movement called "I Lead Climate Action Initiative."

Former she was as a 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. She has also been showcased as a UNICEF Young Advocate in Nigeria. As past fellow of the Panel on Planetary Thinking at Justus Liebig University. in 2023, she was awarded the International Climate Protection Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on the Lake Chad peace and conflict resolution pathway.

In 2024, she was recognized by BBC 100 women as the most inflencial and inspiring climate pioneer globally. She is deloitte scholar to the One Young World Summit in Canada.

climate change, systemic risk, environmental protection, climate governance, technology, democracy, food security