"Young leaders should participate in politics to influence decision making on climate change action. Another way of contribution could be mounting pressure on political leaders to have official plans in their manifestos against climate change during election campaign."
Beatrice Dossah has 10 years of experience in environmental impact assessment with the Environmental Protection Agency of Ghana. In 2017, she became a fellow of the UNESCO Land Restoration programme in Iceland, building her capacity in ecological restoration and project management. In 2014, Beatrice founded an environmental non-governmental organisation called Hipsters of Nature, with a mission to raise awareness about plastic pollution and urban gardening by leveraging the arts and community empowerment. Hipsters of Nature obtained the trust of international partners like the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the European Union Delegation to Ghana and PricewaterhouseCoopers to execute corporate social responsibility activities such as beach cleaning, educational workshops, and large-scale urban gardening projects in the slums of Accra, Ghana. She recently created an African textile clothing brand called Kayayo and focuses her research on environment and social compliance in the global textile fashion chain. She is also an artist (known as Alewa) and uses her art to create videos, music, and stories to raise awareness among young people about pressing environmental issues.
