Enkhuun Byambadorj is an environmental rights advocate. Witnessing her loved ones suffer from air pollution, she co-founded and is the Director of Operations of Breathe Mongolia, a nonprofit working to transform policies, narratives, and sectors to clean our air and protect the climate. Last year alone, her team trained over 600 youth in environmental action and reached more than 252,000 people through advocacy campaigns. Her team is now building a community-based vocabulary and practical frameworks to facilitate inclusive, intersectional, and context-appropriate discussions and efforts toward environmental justice.

Enkhuun holds a BA in Environment and International Development, a combination that fuels her commitment to advancing justice through the multilateral systems. She advocates for environmental justice and human rights-based approaches in negotiation processes. She trained as a climate negotiator with the Young Negotiators Academy and has served in the Mongolian delegation to the UNFCCC at COP28 and COP29.

She also serves on Mongolia’s National Environmental Youth Council, the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Clean Air, and the board of Climate Mongolia. Through her work, Enkhuun wants to arm communities with the resources to make the right to a clean, healthy, safe, and sustainable environment a reality and transform the systems that prevent its realization.