Ms Liberatha Kawamala is a young lady aged 25 years eco warrior raised in rural area in Tanzania who strives to save our mother planet Earth through her business start-up known as LIBE GREEN INNOVATION. She has demonstrated beyond doubt that she is self driven, committed and ambitious to solve the problem of plastic waste in Tanzania through recycling business. The reason she has been awarded by Tony Elumel Foundation in Nigeria through United Nations Development Program in Tanzania. Apart from being a country Partner with WORLD BUSINESS ANGEL INVESTMENT FORUM (WBAF). She is also a global goal champion working on goal 8 and 9. As she works on promoting decent jobs creation, entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-small and medium sized enterprises. A goals number 9 which is industrial innovation and infrastructure promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation. In Addition to that Liberatha kawamala was selected for the Global fundraising stage in Istanbul February 2020 and also she got a chance to host an online radio in Nigeria known as THE AFRO PRENEUR RADIO where she hosts about sustainable entrepreneurship. Moreover, apart from that Liberatha has won different awards in different sectors due to her excellence work in Tanzania and managed to work with organization inside and outside the country being Youth For Social Economic Development Organization, Roots And Shoots Tanzania, Africraft, Hope For Hopeless Movement, Invefox And Bridge For Entreprises, Rosaluxemburg Stiftung, Kichina Tanzaniza , Bongo Vocha And Mazingira Plus.

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Dorcas is a member of the CAMFED Association of young African women educated with CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education) support in Zambia. She is passionate about delivering food security through climate-smart food production, and won a Mastercard Foundation scholarship to study agricultural sciences at EARTH University in Costa Rica. Dorcas’ passion for sustainable agriculture is inspired by the many challenges smallholder farmers in her marginalised rural community face. Her family has experienced first-hand the consequences of unpredictable weather patterns - including food insecurity due to massive crop losses caused by droughts affecting maize, a staple crop. She is dedicated to encouraging smallholder farmers to adopt sustainable agriculture practices, addressing hunger while improving resilience to climate change. Dorcas has been working with communities in Costa Rica to promote sustainable agricultural practices and integrated waste management strategies in rural agribusiness. For her graduation project, she is analyzing the viability of mealworms as a sustainable protein alternative, and promoting insect value addition in food processing to improve nutrition. Dorcas will also be exploring the potential use of bamboo in fish and vegetable farming as part of an internship at Auburn University in the US, creating a model design of a mobile aquaponic system using bamboo. As well as replicating the system in her own community, Dorcas hopes to work with other female smallholder farmers to incubate this idea at CAMFED’s climate-smart demonstration farm in Chinsali, Zambia, training young women to farm fresh fish and vegetables sustainably and improve food security.

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Fidèle Mbilizi Mutimanwa was born in Bukavu the 10th of August of 1982, at the east of the Democratic republic of Congo, in a large autochthonous family from Batwa. He went to high-school thanks to the Organization PIDP-KIVU (Integrated Program for the Development of the Pygmy people in Kivu). In this first autochthonous organization, he started to work reinforcing the capacities and sensibilisation of Batwa communities. During university he was also involved in LINAPYCO RDC (National League of Autochthonous Pygmy Associations in RDC) and he was the first Twa autochthonous graduated in rural development from the Department of Environmental Management and Rural Development. Since then and until nowadays, he works in LINAPYCO doing concrete actions of development for his people in the eastern part of the country. He was charged of advocacy and formations on the rights of the autochthonous people and is currently the director of Pool Est. As a campaigner for the human rights of the autochthonous people, he has experience in development and economic recovery, livelihood of low-income households, forest governance and land rights, he is actually involved in the national procedure of reforms of the Democratic republic of Congo (Lands, forest, and land managing).

As the Sustainable Land Use & Emissions Project Lead for World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia, Nanda manages practical initiatives and policy research on calculating, reducing, and sequestering individual emissions. In this speech, Nanda will share about why and how personalizing climate crisis, such as its relationship with the current health crisis, could help energize “environmental leadership values” from each of us, and showcase it through simple-yet-effective actions such as planting trees.