Pema Wangmo Lama, a Mugum Indigenous Youth, is an Indigenous climate activist and feminist. She is the Founder and Vice-Chair of WE-Women from Indigenous Nationalities (WE-WIN), and Working Group Member of International Indigenous Youth Forum on Climate Change (IIYFCC). Her work focuses on the nexus of climate, gender, and Indigenous Peoples rights through capacity and leadership building at community, national, and regional levels. Pema engages in policy advocacy at both local and international levels, especially in UN mechanisms like CEDAW and UNFCCC, also speaking at the opening plenary at COP28. She has also led Indigenous Peoples’ Engagement in the NDC 3.0 preparation in Nepal and the preparation of the CEDAW Shadow Report for Indigenous Women for the 89th CEDAW pre-sessional working group. She is also one of the drafting members of the Gen-Z Peoples Movement Agreement and part of Indigenous Gen-Z Collective and Gen-Z Movement Alliance who led the negotiation and signing of the agreement with the Interim Government of Nepal.
