Mahnoor Kamran
Youth Activists
Also working within:
Decolonising Movements & Diasporas
Also working within:
Decolonising Movements & Diasporas
She/Her
Based: Stoke-on-Trent
Mahnoor is an eighteen-year-old Pakistani-born student and Climate Justice advocate. Mahnoor is on Good Energy’s Good Future Board to advise and challenge the renewable energy supplier on their initiatives, business policies and ethics. In 2023, she will work alongside the thinktank Sustainability First and energy regulator Ofgem on their Youth Forum.
Mahnoor grew up between South Asia, one of the most climate vulnerable regions, and the Middle East, a net exporter of oil and gas. Upon moving to the UK, her understanding
of marginalisation and inequality enforced on society’s most disadvantaged solidified when she witnessed that people of the Global Majority were most affected by the climate crises.
Mahnoor has advised businesses, industry leaders, the Department for Education and leading environmental charities on how to tackle the underrepresentation of POCs in the sector and embed climate Justice into their work. Previously, she worked on planning sustainable housing in Oman and was a judge on ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Award.
“You always told me it takes time. It’s taken my father’s time, my mother’s time. My uncle’s time. My brother’s and my sister’s time. My niece’s and my nephew’s time. How much time do you want for your ‘progress’?” James Baldwin