Farhana Yamin is a British lawyer focusing on human rights and climate justice who has provided legal and strategic advice to small islands leaders and ministers on UN climate negotiations. For 30 years she attended nearly every COP/UN climate summit since 1991 and is a key architect of the Paris Climate Agreement.
She runs the Climate Justice and Just Transition Donor Collaborative which brings together some of the world’s largest climate philanthropies to create climate solutions that also tackle systemic inequalities. She coordinates the Climate Reframe Project which seeks to amplify the voice of climate activists and experts from racialized minorities in the UK environment movement.
Farhana Yamin is the Director of Impatience Ltd; an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford University; a Senior Advisor to SYSTEMIQ; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Visiting Professor, University of the Arts, London; and Deputy Chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum Expert Advisory Group.
Last update: 2025