Climate Reframe: Amplifying BAME Voices in the UK Environmental Movement

Lola Fayokun

Youth Activists
Also working within:
Activists & Campaigners
Also working within:
Activists & Campaigners
Based: London
Lola is a climate activist and LSE Politics graduate. She is heavily involved in the UK Student Climate Network, the grassroots organisation which hosts the youth climate strikes in the UK. Her work here is focused on promoting anti-racism in the environmental movement and promoting the Green New Deal. She is also a Labour Party volunteer, organising as a Havering & Dagenham Young Labour’s Campaigns and Membership officer and as LSESU Labour Society’s BAME officer.
“We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to get this right. Right doesn’t just means emissions reductions. Right means creating a new, prosperous world for all, one in which our economies have been restructured along social and environmental principles to ensure everyone has a good quality of life, no matter where in the world you were born. Right means taking responsibility, changing our ways, and acting out of solidarity, rather than for personal gain. Young people in the UK are leading the way with this call, we’re able to shout the loudest and it’s time those in positions of power start properly listening.”