October's issue of TIME Magazine has been set aside as the "Global Climate Fight Issue", with multiple covers profiling the forerunners in efforts to protect the world's environment.

Vanessa Nakate was featured on one of the covers. In 2019, she founded the Rise Up Movement and Youth For Future Africa, with the aim of raising awareness about climate change in Africa.

In the same year, she also founded the Green Schools Projects, a renewable energy initiative focused on transitioning schools in Uganda to solar power in place of fossil fuels. As of now, the project has been carried out across six schools in the country.

Speaking to TIME Magazine, Nakate emphasises the disproportionate impact climate change has on countries in the Global South, who typically contribute less CO2 emissions: "Historically, Africa is responsible for only 3 percent of global emissions. And yet, some Africans are already suffering some of the worst and brutal impacts of climate change."

In January of last year, Nakate was cropped out of a picture taken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, by the Associated Press.

The photo featured four young white climate activists — Luisa Neubauer, Greta Thunberg, Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille — alongside the Ugandan environmental campaigner, who was left out of the original photo as a "terrible mistake', according to the Associated Press.

In addition to being honoured by a TIME Magazine cover, Nakate also won a Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award in March this year in the "Together for Good Africa Award" category.