Fatima Faraz, Youth Advocate

Fatima Faraz started speaking about climate change when most of her peers had not yet heard the term framed as something that concerned them personally. Based in Peshawar, she has used art, journalism, and street level activism to bring the climate conversation to audiences that formal policy rarely reaches. She has drawn attention to how heatwaves are quietly dismantling Pakistan’s agricultural base and threatening food security in ways that will hit children and the rural poor hardest. A member of the Prime Minister Youth Council and the Peshawar Clean Air Alliance, she has argued consistently that climate solutions imposed from above, without local context, will not hold.