Co-leads of Youth for Ecocide Law
Co-Lead Youth for Ecocide Law
Léa Weimann is an eco-activist and poet. She grew up in South Africa and has lived in Germany and Scotland. She became a Youth Ambassador for Stop Ecocide after the historic Stockholm+50 Conference, was the Youth for Ecocide Law Spokesperson at COP27, and joined Amalie and Tova co-leading the Youth for Ecocide Law (Y4EL) network shortly afterwards at the beginning of 2023.
She holds an MA in International Relations & Sustainable Development and a LLM in Climate Change Law. Her poetry book “Dear Earth” merges art and activism to inspire change for our future. Léa has performed her poetry at COP27 and is passionate about using art as a medium to inspire change. This is also what inspired her to create and lead the Y4EL Art Book project. Léa wants to create societal change at a systemic level and together with Stop Ecocide push for new moral and legal norms at an international level.
Debbie Buyaki goes by many hats, but her recent preference has been that of a tree planter, founding a project that now covers six of the seven continents, going into thousands of trees and winning a few notable awards.
She is passionate about the environment and over the years that passion has grown. Starting off as an ecosystem restorer, now to a climate justice champion, she believes the war against the climate crisis needs to be fought on all possible angles collectively, each role contributing to the collective goal of averting the climate crisis altogether.
She recently also been involved heavily in fighting the war from the legal battlefield, focusing on ecocide law to protect the environment against mass damage and offering a deterrent strategy to add on to the existent climate adaptation and mitigation strategies. By this she has had her hope stirred up in protecting the children, youth and indigenous persons through legislation.
With her research with the National Geographic Society and The Nature Conservancy, she started a podcast; Flight Over Nature’s View. It is a climate centered podcast, delving into the various aspects of the climate crisis, and ultimately to inspire hope.
Her backgrounds are in Criminal Justice & Criminology and International Law.