Kate Yeo | |
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| Born | Singapore |
| Education | Dartmouth College |
| Occupation | Sustainability advocate |
| Organization(s) | BYO Bottle SG, Re-Earth Initiative |
Kate Yeo (born 2001) is a youth climate activist from Singapore.
Kate Yeo | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Born | Singapore |
| Education | Dartmouth College |
| Occupation | Sustainability advocate |
| Organization(s) | BYO Bottle SG, Re-Earth Initiative |
Kate Yeo (born 2001) is a youth climate activist from Singapore.
In 2018, Yeo started a campaign BYO Bottle SG to advocate against single-use plastics in Singapore. [1] The initiative has worked with 231 drink stalls and reached out to close to 10,000 people. [2] [3] She achieved 2nd Prize in the Goi Peace Foundation International Essay Contest for Young People for her essay titled “The Battle Against Plastic Pollution”. [4]
Yeo was one of the organisers of the We The Planet climate strikes for Earth Day 2020. [5] She then co-founded Re-Earth Initiative, an international youth-led NGO striving to make the climate movement more accessible to all. [6] She also helped to organise the Virtual Youth Environment Assembly, organised by the U.N. Environmental Programme’s youth constituency. [7] In April 2021, she was a panellist at the Othering & Belonging Summit, alongside writer and climate activist Naomi Klein and other youth advocates Tokata Iron Eyes, Xiye Bastida and Samia Dumbuya. [8]
Yeo attended the COP27 conference in Egypt in 2022 to look at how the international trade of carbon credits will be rolled out. [9] After the conference, she spoke about remaining "stubbornly hopeful". [10]
In 2023, she was named to the Eco-Business Youth A-List. She sees a need to "focus on what can be done locally" in order to drive genuine climate action. [11] Yeo has also actively spoken out on the need for stronger inclusion of Southeast Asian youths in the climate movement. [7]
During the pandemic, Kate started an initiative to support local hawkers in Singapore. Her family purchased bulk orders of food and drinks which were given to residents at a halfway house. [12]
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