As part of Uganda's Fridays for Future movement, Nakabuye and her fellow climate activists have been dedicated to mobilizing a strong youth movement to demand urgent action towards the climate crisis. The Fridays for Future movement in Uganda is now East Africa's largest youth movement, with over 50,000 young people spread across 52 schools and five universities, as well as members of the general public across Uganda, Sierra Leone, Angola, Gabon, Nigeria and Kenya. Nakabuye has spoken out about the lack of diversity in the climate change movement, stating that, "the debate on climate change is not for whites only." She criticized the media after
Vanessa Nakate, another Ugandan climate activist was cropped out of a photo taken at the
World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020. She denounced this act as a form of "
environmental racism and discrimination," as Nakate's absence meant that the image showed only white activists, including 17-year-old
Greta Thunberg. Nakabuye's climate activism has received international attention, having been featured as one of the prominent young women striking for climate change in various news outlets, including
BBC News,
Vox, and
Time. On 11 October 2019, she was invited to give a speech In 2022, Nakabuye appeared a panelist at the University of Colorado Boulder Right Here, Right Now Climate Summit. == See also ==