Today on the podcast I’m talking with Neoka Naidoo.
Neoka always wanted someone to do something about the issues that plague our society, then she realised she was somebody, and got straight to work.
In 2014 she was selected as the Leadership Development Fellow in South Africa for the Climate Action Network International working on international climate change policy and civil society coordination. At the end of 2016 she started to working with this group on Climate Transparency relating to the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
In 2016 Neoka was selected for the Mail and Guardians 200 Young South African list due to her experience in the environmental movement. In 2017 she was selected by the Ecologist as one of 10 global activists to defeat President Trump’s climate change agenda. She was also listed by TreeShake as one of 76 South African voices speaking up for the environment.
Neoka attained her BSc in Environmental Science in her hometown of Durban at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. She followed this up with a post-graduate diploma in in Sustainable Development at the Sustainability Institute and is now enrolled in the MPhil program looking at climate transparency.
Neoka joinedGIZ in July 2018 in an advisory capacity. Her role supports and engages with implementation the Paris Agreement in the South Africa context. She currently works on climate finance, digitalization and the IKI projects in South Africa.
Neoka’s piece in Feminism Is is called feminism and diplomacy, and in that piece she says:
“For me, patriarchy is not just the dominance of masculine traits in society, but also an egocentric and anthropocentric approach to solving issues by presenting the illusion of choice, rather than real choices. In my opinion, feminism means the intentional motion towards a holistic eco-centric world by ending the dominant patriarchal and archaic establishment.”
So today I’ll be talking with Neoka about the links between feminism and climate change, and what we can all do about it.
