From the Streets to Parliament: Fatima Ibrahim on Building Unstoppable Climate Power | S4E8

What does it actually take to force climate action from a political system that was never built to deliver it? In this episode, we sit down with Fatima Ibrahim, co-founder and co-director of  ⁨@GNDRising⁩  (Green New Deal UK and Green New Deal Rising. One of the most compelling and uncompromising voices in the global climate justice movement today.

Fatima co-founded the UK hub of the Green New Deal in 2019 to organise and amplify a generation frustrated by the prioritisation of capitalism over climate concerns. Since then, she has helped lead one of the most tactically sophisticated youth climate campaigns in British political history, bringing innovative electoral strategies and organising young people to break through and win the change we need in climate campaigning.

We go deep on what a people-powered Green New Deal really looks like, why climate justice and economic justice are inseparable, and what it takes to build a movement that translates street power into political power. We talked about the Labour government's energy transition, the North Sea oil field controversy, the fight for green jobs, and whether the UK is serious about leading on climate or just performing it.

As Fatima said when she won the 2020 Global Citizen Prize UK Hero Award: "Climate science tells us that we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the future, but time is running out."

This conversation is for everyone who refuses to let that window close.

Guest: Fatima Ibrahim — Co-Director, Green New Deal UK & Green New Deal Rising

Website: gndrising.org

Instagram: @gndrising — instagram.com/gndrising