Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

n environmentalist activist and poet, elected chair of Friends of the Earth International

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth International is an international network of environmental organizations in 76 countries.FOEI is assisted by a small secretariat which provides support for the network and its agreed major campaigns...

 and Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action. He is one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment 2009

Heroes of the Environment (2009)

Heroes of the Environment is a list published in Time Magazine. The third list was published in September 2009. The list contains 30 entries, individuals or groups that have contributed substantially to the preservation of environment, and is divided into four categories: Leaders & Visionaries,...

. In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named co-winner of the Right Livelihood Award

Right Livelihood Award

The Right Livelihood Award, also referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize", is a prestigious international award to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today". The prize was established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, and is...

 (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize).

Work

At the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference

2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 December and 18 December. The conference included the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...

 in Copenhagen, Bassey - despite being accredited - was "physically kept out" of a meeting.

Publications

• To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa Publisher: Fahamu
  Fahamu
  Fahamu is a not-for-profit organisation committed to serving the needs of organisations and social movements that inspire progressive social change and promote and protect human rights. It has played a pioneering role in using new information and communication technologies to support capacity...
  
   (Jul 1 2010) ISBN 1-906387-53-2 ISBN 978-1-906387-53-2
• Trade and human rights in the Niger Delta
• SHELL'S FPSO poses serious dangers

External links

• Copenhagen: Where Africa Took On Obama By Naomi Klein - December 8th, 2009
• Article from Democracy Now
• Interview in Global Greegrants Fund
• Environment Rights Action, Friends of the earth in Nigeria
• Video of Nnimmo Bassey during the COP15 by The UpTake (Naomi Klein)
• Video: Nigerian Environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey on Bolivia Climate Conference
• Nnimmo Bassey Wins Right Livelihood Award - video report by Democracy Now!
  Democracy Now!
  Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...