Kate Rooth

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As an environmental activist, Kate has been involved with Greenpeace since 2005 promoting climate, forests and oceans issues. She works with the Research Unit to support campaign and action work and is also a non-violence trainer. Kate has been involved in non-violent civil disobedience in fighting to protect the polar bear, promote wind energy, protect the boreal forest, expose the impacts of global warming, and protest harmful and illegal fishing practices.

She has become active in coal issues through her work on www.StopGreenwash.org and www.coal-is-dirty.org where she writes on the coal front groups and the myth of “clean coal."