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Leena Joshi

Leena Joshi

Founder of Climate Conservancy | Founder of EcoVita | TEDx Speaker | United Nations Researcher | Poet | Author | Advisor | Board Member

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Leena Joshi is an award-winning social entrepreneur, climate advocate and author. She is the founder and executive director of Climate Conservancy, an international nonprofit, with 9000 volunteers in 60+ countries. She has sat on boards and advisory councils for multifarious companies. She's the CEO and Chair of the Board at EcoVita.

Leena's work has been featured by international media outlets and organizations such as World Bank Group, United Nations, Climate Reality Project, Her Campus Media, Feminist, U.S. Department of State and Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation.

As a Youth Stocktake Researcher, Leena co-authored the UNFCCC Youth Stocktake Report, a pivotal document that is reshaping youth engagement in global climate governance. She currently serves as a Research Advisor to Imperial College London, where her work on climate anxiety and ecological grief is trailblazing new global conversations around the emotional and psychological costs of climate breakdown.

Leena is a prolific public speaker and has spoken at universities across the world including Harvard, Oxford, Sciences Po and Cambridge. She's a TEDx Speaker and has also spoken at high-level global conferences. She has authored books including 'The Climate Awakening' and 'Ethereal'.

She is a conservation photographer, environmental artist, and climate poet, intersecting art and climate justice through climate artivism for our blue planet.

Area of Expertise

  • Environment & Cleantech

Topics

  • climate change
  • Youth Activism
  • generation z leadership
  • art-based climate advocacy
  • intersectional environmentalism
  • feminism
  • sustainable fashion
  • climate justice

Leena Joshi

Founder of Climate Conservancy | Founder of EcoVita | TEDx Speaker | United Nations Researcher | Poet | Author | Advisor | Board Member

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