Luisa Neubauer

Luisa Neubauer is a young climate activist from Germany who has become involved with a great number of climate and environment-based campaigns, including the school strike for climate, the Green Youth, and Germany’s green political party, Alliance 90/The Greens (although she emphasises that she is not an active, partisan member). She has also previously donated her time and efforts to the likes of The Fossil Free Campaign, The Hunger Project, 350.org, ONE, and Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations. She was included in Time magazine’s TIME100 Next list of 2022, which selects 100 rising stars currently shaping global discourse. She has also given not one but two prestigious TED Talks, the most recent being ‘The Fairy Tales of the Fossil Fuel Industry — and a Better Climate Story’ in January 2023.

Neubauer was born in Hamburg in 1996 — or, as her social media bios put it, at 364 ppm — a reference to the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air during the month she was born (alarmingly, a baby born in January 2023 would be born at 419 ppm). It was her politically active grandmother, a veteran of the anti-nuclear movement, who first educated the young Neubauer about climate change. After leaving school, she spent time working on an organic farm in Britain and with a development aid project in East Africa.

Today, alongside her friend Greta Thunberg, Neubauer is internationally recognised as one of the leading voices of young climate activism. Alongside her real-world agitation, she has a social media outreach of close to 1 million.