Uzma Yousuf, Country Director,Pakistan, Cambridge, Global Climate Change Ambassador for Cambridge & SDG Ambassador

Uzma Yousuf has made a straightforward bet: that if Pakistan is to survive what is coming, its students need to understand why. As the driving force behind the Cambridge Climate Quest programme in Pakistan, she has worked to embed climate literacy across school curricula nationwide, reaching students on every educational board through a free, locally contextualised course that draws on Pakistan’s own disasters, the 2010 floods and Lahore’s air pollution crisis, rather than abstract global examples. She has described the programme not as an academic exercise but as a call to action, and has pushed hard to get government ministries to carry it into as many classrooms as possible.