Mikaela Loach

Mikaela Loach (Kingston, 1998), has been named by Forbes, BBC Women’s Hour, and The Guardian as one of the most influential women in the climate movement in the United Kingdom. A former medical student, the British-Jamaican is now an activist for climate justice and co-director of the organization school AWETHU. In 2021, she was one of the three claimants in the Paid to Pollute case that brought the UK government to court for the exorbitant public payments they grant to fossil fuel companies each year. Her first book “It’s Not So Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World” quickly became an indie bestseller in the UK. Mikaela was named the 2023 indie non-fiction champion by Bookshop.org, and one of the 'Top World’s Thinkers' by Prospect Magazine. She has just published her second book “Climate Is Just The Start” (2025), where she brings the theory and vision of climate action and justice to a young audience.

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