Noora Firaq
Noora is the former Deputy CEO at Climate Outreach and a Board Director at the Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative. She is from the Maldives - one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world. She has firsthand experience of how climate change affects the socio-economics, psychology and security of communities. Noora’s lived experience of climate change and being a migrant woman of colour in the UK drives her work. Noora believes that solving climate change requires us to address it through an intersectional lens, recognising how it affects people across societies. Noora believes that to see great transformational change at individual and systemic level, the climate movement itself also needs to transform. It needs to be inclusive, taking an anti-colonial, anti-racist and feminist approach without sectoral boundaries - we need to change ourselves before we can change the world.
We cannot solve climate change without addressing the inequalities of the world. And we need to start with making our climate movement inclusive and fairer.