Elizabeth Wathuti Net Worth

Background and career

Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti (born August 1, 1995) is a Kenyan environmentalist and climate activist and the founder and CEO of the Green Generation Initiative, which nurtures young people to love nature and be environmentally conscious at a young age and has now planted 6.8 million tree seedlings in Kenya.

In 2025, she was named a TIME 1000 Most Influential Climate Leader in the World by TIME Magazine and had previously received the TIME 100 Impact Awards in Singapore. In 2019, she was awarded the Africa Green Person of the Year Award by the Eleven Eleven Twelve Foundation and was named as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans by the Africa Youth Awards.

Wathuti has spoken about the issue of loss and damage, which refers to wealthier nations paying into a fund to help those countries most vulnerable to climate change. "The people who are least responsible for the climate crisis are bearing the biggest brunt. Loss and damage is happening right now. Yet, rich countries with the greatest historical emissions are not acting to help frontline communities cope with the devastation they are facing. This is what climate injustice looks like," she said in Carbon Brief.