Eric Damien Njuguna (born circa 2003) is a

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. Njuguna started their climate activism in 2017 after severe

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impacted their school's water supply. by organizing with the group Zero Hour and then Fridays for Future Kenya. In August 2021, Njuguna co-authored an essay with

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, and Farzana Faruk Jhumu that was published in The New York Times. Their co-authored essay highlighted a 2021

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report that stated 2.2 billion children are at "extremely high-risk" of experiencing the consequences of climate change. Later in 2021, Njuguna attended the

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(COP26) and represented

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Kenya. At COP26, Njuguna, alongside

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and Elizabeth Wathuti, met with

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Antonio Guterres to discuss

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