Wanjira Mathai (born December 1971) is a Kenyan environmentalist and activist. She is Vice President and Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute, based in Nairobi, Kenya. In this role, she takes on global issues including deforestation and energy access. She was selected as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans by New African Magazine in 2018 for her role serving as the senior advisor at the World Resources Institute as well as for her recent campaign to plant over 30 million trees through her work at the Green Belt Movement.
Wanjira Mathai
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- Dec. 5, 1971
Books by Wanjira Mathai
George Monbiot, Bill McKibben, Marshall Burke, Glen Peters, Jennie C. Stephens, Alice Larkin, Naomi Klein, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine Hayhoe, Elin Anna Labba, Michael E. Mann, Sunita Narain, Dave Goulson, Peter H. Gleick, Mike Berners-Lee, Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Erica Chenoweth, Peter Brannen, Beth Shapiro, Michael Oppenheimer, Johan Rockström, Zeke Hausfather, Bjørn H. Samset, Paulo Ceppi, Jennifer A. Francis, Friederike Otto, Kate Marvel, Ricarda Winkelmann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Hans-Otto Pörtner, David Wallace-Wells, Karin Kvale, Joëlle Gergis, Carlos A. Nobre, Julia Arieira, Nathália Nascimento, Beverly E. Law, Adriana De Palma, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Andy Purvis, Keith W Larson, Jennifer Soong, Örjan Gustafsson, Tamsin Edwards, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ana M Vicedo-Cabrera, Drew Shindell, Felipe J Colón-González, John Brownstein, Derek MacFadden, Sarah F McGough, Mauricio Santillana, Samuel S. Myers, Saleemul Huq, Jacqui Patterson, Abrahm Lustgarten, Michael A. Taylor, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Sônia Guajajara, Jason Hickel, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Solomon Hsiang, Taikan Oki, Eugene Linden, Kevin L. Anderson, Alexandra Urisman, Karl-Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich, Niclas Hällström, Isak Stoddard, Amitav Ghosh, Rob Jackson, Alexander Popp, Michael A Clark, Sonja Vermeulen, John Barrett, Alice Garvey, Ketan Joshi, Jillian Anable, Christian Brand, Annie Lowrey, Silpa Kaza, Nina Schrank, Stuart Capstick, Lorraine E. Whitmarsh, Per Espen Stoknes, Gidon Eshel, Seth Klein, Nicole Becker, Disha Ravi, Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Laura Verónica Muñoz, Ina Maria Shikongo, Ayisha Siddiqa, Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Wanjira Mathai, Lucas Chanel, Thomas Piketty, Kate Raworth, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Kolbert, Greta Thunberg, Naomi Oreskes: The Climate Book (Hardcover, 2023)
The Climate Book
by George Monbiot, Bill McKibben, Marshall Burke, and 100 others
