#Solvingit26 Honoree
Amelia Telford, Australia
“It is not only strategic and important [that] we work with people who are directly impacted by climate change, but it is also immoral if we don’t.”
Amelia Telford is an environmentalist and anti-fracking activist from Bundjalung country in Australia. She is the national director for Seed, the first climate network for Indigenous youth. With Seed, Amelia succeeded in getting Australia’s four largest banks to not fund the Adani coal mine, and is now focusing on stopping gas fracking in the Northern Territory.
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