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Azeez Tobi Abubakar

Azeez is a climate youth change advocate and one of the creators of the Climate Adaptation Project,( food risk mapping) which was created to provide solutions that will enable local communities in raising their sturdiness and adaptation to challenges that come along with climate change.

Biography

Azeez is a 23 year old climate change activist who lives in Lagos state Nigeria, is the founder of the Global Shapers in Ilorin, and the Director of Programs at the Global Shapers Community Hub. He is  also the founder of Founder of The Climate Education Initiative ProjectHe  the Partnership and Engagement Chair of the Commonwealth Youth Climate Change Network, and a Board Member of the African Youth Climate Innovation Network, an African youth-led community of climate innovators and advocates.

As a final year student who studied civil engineering, he designed a sustainable design approach that recreates the way hospital buildings have been designed in Nigeria to ensure energy efficiency because of the design, he was shortlisted for the BIM Africa Innovation Awards and earned a Pepperdine School of Public Policy Leading Smart Communities Scholarship. He was also given a US Green Building Council (USGBC) Green Associate Credential Scholarship for promoting green building in Africa.

Work

He is a 2021/22  member of the Global Citizen Fellowship Program, powered by BeyGOOD. Azeez was at  COP26 and a Youth4Climate Delegate, he was also the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Winner of the 2022 World Bank Group Youth Summit Case Challenge. At COP26 he told CNN he was at Glasgow to represent the people who cannot attend conference and his objective at the conference is to raise the voices of young people who are affected and feeling the negative impact of climate.