Nigeria's climate technology landscape is expanding beyond solar panels, electric vehicles, and purpose-built carbon-reduction machinery. A growing cohort of Nigerian women is deploying technology in diverse forms—artificial intelligence, remote sensing, gaming, digital education, social media, and circular-fashion innovation—to respond to the climate crisis.

For these women, technology serves as more than a product-building tool. It is a means to make climate knowledge more accessible, draw young people into environmental conversations, develop sustainable alternatives, and convert climate challenges into practical solutions. Some use digital platforms to educate and mobilise communities, while others are building technologies and businesses designed to reduce waste and help people adapt to a changing climate.

As Nigeria contends with rising temperatures, flooding, waste pollution, energy challenges, and other effects of climate change, these emerging leaders are demonstrating what climate action can look like in the digital age. Their work also reflects a broader pattern in the climate field: durable responses often depend as much on skills, education, and community participation as on hardware. Here are 10 Nigerian women using technology to drive climate action.

Glory Oguegbu — Renewable Energy Skills Training

Glory Oguegbu is the founder of the Renewable Energy Technology Training Institute (RETTI), a renewable-energy organisation focused on expanding access to solar and clean-energy skills in Africa. RETTI was established to train, mentor, and provide work experience for young people who will drive the energy transition—both as skilled workers in the renewable energy industry and as entrepreneurs who deploy clean energy solutions directly. The institute equips clean energy technicians, developers, engineers, and employees to create reliable electricity access and promote a sustainable world. The focus points to a practical reality of the energy transition: new capacity ultimately relies on the technicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs who install, run, and maintain clean-energy systems.

For 13 years, Oguegbu has partnered with global organisations to develop strategies that accelerate Africa's clean-energy transition by expanding climate literacy, building local capacity, and implementing renewable energy solutions that reach underserved communities.

Jennifer Uchendu — Youth Sustainability Advocacy

Jennifer Uchendu is the founder of SustyVibes, a youth-led organisation advancing sustainability advocacy and implementation across Africa. Her recent work explores the intersection of climate change and health, with a focus on youth mental health and women's sexual and reproductive health. The intersection she explores has become an area of growing attention globally, as advocates and researchers examine how environmental change connects with wellbeing.

SustyVibes began as an educational blog aimed at simplifying sustainability and environmental advocacy for young Nigerians. Recognising the power of pop culture and volunteerism, Uchendu transformed it into a vibrant, youth-led movement that uses creative media—music, dance, art, and community events—to drive sustainable action. Today, the organisation sits at the forefront of youth-driven sustainability research and design, bringing together passionate volunteers, known as sustyvibers, to make sustainability actionable, relatable, and fun.

Folawemi Umunna — Low-Carbon Economy Transition

Folawemi Umunna is the Co-Founder and Project Director of the Climate and Ecological Protection Initiative (CEPI), where she works on climate action, renewable energy, and Nigeria's transition toward a low-carbon economy. A renewable-energy professional with experience spanning technology and the energy transition, she has also worked on greenhouse-gas inventories and carbon-footprint measurement, bringing technical knowledge into climate action. Emissions measurement of this kind is a foundational input for organisations and policymakers seeking to plan, track, and report decarbonisation progress.

Temilade Salami — Circular Fashion Innovation

Temilade Salami, a climate education and sustainability expert, is the founder and Creative Director of Tuntunre, a circular fashion brand that turns discarded denim into clothing and accessories. After years of climate education and youth advocacy—including founding EcoChampions in 2017—she shifted toward building a practical response to textile waste through the brand. Circular fashion, which keeps existing materials in use rather than discarding them, is one such response to textile waste.

Tuntunre rescues discarded denim and transforms it into new products while creating green opportunities for Nigerian artisans. Its first collection rescued 150 pairs of jeans, and the company is incorporating Digital Product Passports and e-commerce to bring greater digital transparency to circular fashion. Digital Product Passports—digital records that document a product's materials and lifecycle—are an emerging transparency mechanism in global fashion supply chains.

Eunice Adewusi — Climate Meets Artificial Intelligence

Eunice Adewusi, a machine-learning engineer, AI researcher, and climate advocate, is behind Climiradi and its climate initiative Project Ayika. The Climiradi Roberts Foundation (CRF) is a youth-led nonprofit that has empowered more than 70,000 youths across more than 20 countries—particularly African girls—through STEAM education, climate action, and gender equity programs. Key initiatives under the foundation include Nexo Girls, Project Ayika, Upskill, and Girls Hack for Impact.

Project Ayika is a six-month Climate-AI Fellowship that empowers African women aged 10 to 35 to design technology solutions for climate justice. Climate AI—the pairing of machine learning with climate science—is an emerging field being applied to areas such as adaptation planning and environmental monitoring. Through AI, climate science, and cultural storytelling, fellows co-create tools rooted in local knowledge. The program shifts climate narratives and equips communities with practical, inclusive innovations for adaptation and resilience.

Grace James — Gaming for Environmental Education

Grace James, a Nigerian game producer and climate advocate, founded GreenQuest Innovations, an initiative that uses games and immersive storytelling to teach children about sustainability and climate change. Games and immersive media have become established formats for education, translating complex subjects into interactive experiences for young audiences. Her work combines game design, African storytelling, and environmental education, reaching thousands of children with climate and sustainability messages.

Adenike Oladosu — Climate Justice and Ecofeminism

Adenike Oladosu is the founder of the I Lead Climate Action Initiative, where she advocates for climate justice, particularly the impact of climate change on communities around Lake Chad. A leading ecofeminist, she has empowered women to become the true custodians of their environment. Her work combines remote-sensing technology, climate research, digital advocacy, and grassroots mobilisation to document environmental changes and raise awareness about climate vulnerability. Remote sensing draws on satellite and aerial imagery to track environmental change across large areas, complementing ground-level observation. She also uses online platforms to amplify climate education and advocacy.

Ini-Obong Antaih — STEM for Climate Solutions

Ini-Obong Antaih, a chemical engineer and sustainability professional, founded the4Climate Fellowship, a 2026 programme helping women in STEM develop careers and solutions in climate and sustainability. Its inaugural five-month virtual fellowship brought together 30 women from across Africa to explore areas including renewable energy, waste management, climate-resilient infrastructure, and food security. Programmes of this kind speak to the persistent under-representation of women in STEM fields globally, and to the breadth of disciplines—from engineering to waste management—where climate careers are taking shape.

Antaih currently serves as Climate Startup Advisor for the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP), a Nigeria Post-Accelerator implemented by Co-creation HUB (CcHUB) in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), and in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (FMIST) and the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).

Cynthia Ohaeri — STEM Pipeline and Policy Research

Cynthia Ohaeri is the founder and Societal Impact Director of Nigerian Girl In STEM, a platform helping girls and young women access STEM education, mentorship, and digital skills. Beyond building a pipeline of young women into science and technology, she has worked across solar project management and carbon-efficiency modelling, and now researches sustainability, climate finance, energy policy, and decarbonisation at the University of Oxford. Her research ties the technical side of climate work to the finance and policy decisions that shape how decarbonisation is carried out. She has also explored technological solutions to environmental challenges, including gas flaring and the decarbonisation of aviation.

Rita Idehai — Tech-Driven Waste Management

Rita Idehai is the founder of Ecobarter, a Nigerian tech-driven waste-management company that turns recyclable waste into economic value. In 2026, Ecobarter worked with UNIDO and the Government of Japan to develop Nigeria's first locally made reverse vending machines, which allow people to deposit plastic bottles and receive incentives while the materials are collected for recycling. Reverse vending machines are a mainstay of deposit-return recycling schemes in many countries, using incentives to raise collection rates.

Idehai's goal is to ensure that every household across Nigeria is connected to a sustainable waste-management platform, while building the adaptive capacity of vulnerable women to climate and economic risks by empowering them to earn a sustainable, decent income working with waste. How tools like these scale toward that goal is one thread to follow as Nigeria's waste-management ecosystem develops.