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
Margaret Atwood, Thomas Piketty, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jason Hickel, Amitav Ghosh, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Klein, Kate Raworth, David Wallace-Wells, Greta Thunberg, Naomi Oreskes, George Monbiot, Bill McKibben, Marshall Burke, Glen Peters, Jennie C. Stephens, Alice Larkin, 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, Karin Kvale, Joëlle Gergis, Carlos A. Nobre, Julia Arieira, Nathália Nascimento, Beverly E. Law, Adriana De Palma, 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, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Solomon Hsiang, Taikan Oki, Eugene Linden, Kevin L. Anderson, Alexandra Urisman, Karl-Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich, Niclas Hällström, Isak Stoddard, 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: The Climate Book (Hardcover, 2023)
The Climate Book
by Margaret Atwood, Thomas Piketty, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and 100 others
