Jennifer Kwao is a trade and corporate accountability campaigner at Climate Action Network Europe with a background in EU law and politics. Previously, she was an editor for the Green European Journal. She is also co-founder of climate justice platform 1.2 Diaries, which documents and amplifies the ideas, expertise, and lived experiences of those most impacted by a world at 1.2+ degrees warming. She has been published in the Green European Journal, Euronews, EndsEurope, African Arguments, Earth.org, and Climate & Development Knowledge Network blog.
Articles
04.10.2024
Will a New EU Law Help Rein in Corporate Pollution and Impunity?
The new directive is a positive step towards countering the climate crisis and bringing justice to communities impacted by corporate greed.
Read more05.12.2023
From Uganda to COP: An Activist’s Fight for Climate Justice
Ugandan activist Patience Nabukalu talks about her experience as a climate activist in the Global South.
Read more10.11.2023
Young, Driven but Sidelined: African Climate Activists Fighting From the Margins
Three stories on the struggle for inclusion even as youth representation and climate justice has gained recognition in the mainstream.
Read more18.09.2023
Africa Climate Summit: Historic Turn or Wasted Opportunity?
We asked climate justice researcher Roland Ngam about the summit's significance and the alternatives to the green growth model it promoted.
Read more13.06.2023
Hot Conflicts
When do environmental conflicts turn violent? How are military and environmental conflicts related?
Read more13.06.2023
Ghana’s Small-Scale Mining Menace
How the mad rush for precious minerals and gold is sowing seeds of conflict in Ghana.
Read more23.03.2023
Can Nigeria Bounce Back from its Flawed Election?
Two experts react to Nigeria’s presidential election and its future relation with the rest of the world.
Read more30.11.2022
Faces of the Crisis
How the cost of living crisis affects the everyday lives of people around Europe.
Read more15.09.2022
The Untold Story of the Food Crisis
Russia’s war on Ukraine marks a tipping point for a deeply unequal and flawed global food system.
Read more27.10.2021
Gender in Climate Governance: Telling Numbers but Who is Listening?
The UN climate regime has a gender problem and it negatively affects our ability to combat the climate crisis.
Read more08.06.2021
Gender Justice: Beyond Binaries and Buzzwords
Breaking the silos of the mainstream and in gender equality policies requires a new approach centred around justice.
Read more30.11.2020
Black Lives Matter in Brexit Britain
Riding on a wave of nostalgia and amnesia, Britain set on a course to leave the EU. Disparities of the pandemic and the anti-racist movement brought home how the imperial past haunts today.
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