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Ayisha Siddiqa (born 8 February 1999) is a Pakistani-American climate justice advocate. She is a co-founder of Fossil Free University and Polluters Out.
Siddiqa moved to Coney Island, Brooklyn when she was a child. She graduated from Hunter College and received a Bachelor of arts in Political Sciences and English in 2021. While at Hunter College, she was part of the Hunter College.
In response to the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, she founded Polluters Out with Isabella Fallahi and Helena Gualinga. The organization was created in response to the realization that fossil fuel industries play a big role in the COPs. Fossil fuel companies who fund the COPs include Endesa, Iberdrola, Banco Santander and Acciona. As a result of this campaign, COP26 didn't include big oil companies as sponsors. British Petroleum was one such oil company denied sponsorship. Ayisha Siddiqa also joined the walkout at the TED Countdown Conference, which happened in Edinburgh in response to the speaker role given to Shell plc Chief Executive Officer, Ben van Beurden, and other fossil fuel executives. She is also the co-founder of Free Fossil University.
Siddiqa also attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2021, where she critiqued the inaccessibility of the COP, especially for people from the Global South. In 2022, she becames one of the speaker for 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Children and Youth Pavilion. In March 2023, she was named as one of Time magazine's Women of the Year. In 2024, he became one of 100 list of Climate 100 that is published by The Independent.
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