Farhana Yamin

This award recognises a climate lawyer and activist who has shaped the global response from the negotiating room to the streets. Advising the Marshall Islands and other vulnerable nations for over 30 years, she is widely credited with embedding the goal of net‑zero emissions by mid‑century into the 2015 Paris Agreement, a concept now central to every national decarbonisation strategy. In 2018 she co‑founded Extinction Rebellion and later glued herself to Shell’s London headquarters, translating legal expertise into powerful civil disobedience.

In 2025 she continued this dual legacy: as a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, and by channelling flow funding to support Indigenous‑led participation at COP30 in Belém, where she remains active as a voice for justice and inclusivity. Combining academic rigour with defiant moral clarity, she has built bridges between policy, philanthropy and frontline movements. For making decarbonisation a legal and moral imperative, this activist is an enduring force for transformative change. For that sustained advocacy across law, policy and frontline solidarity, Farhana Yamin receives this recognition.

Score: 90

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhana_Yamin