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Nicole Becker

Argentine youth climate activist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ106604613
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Nicole "Nicki" Becker (Buenos Aires) is a climate activist from Argentina and one of the founders of Jóvenes por el Clima, part of the Fridays for Future movement. Becker became the youth champion for Escazu Agreement and Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) in 2021.

Background and education

Becker is the daughter of a father who is a criminal lawyer and a mother who is a math teacher and lives in Caballito. After realizing climate change had social ramifications as well as environmental ones, Becker changed her course in college from psychology to international law in her first year. She is currently studying law at the University of Buenos Aires.

Activism

Since she was eight years old, Becker already joined Habonim Dror and was also part of Ni una menos. Her environmental activism started in February 2019 when she saw an Instagram video of young people doing a climate march in Europe, and Greta Thunberg became the center of the topic. Because the first International March for the Climate Crisis was held on March 15, 2019, Becker, Bruno Rodriguez, and their other three friends decided to find Jóvenes por el Clima, a part of Youth Climate, by the end of February 2019. They decided to arrange the march in Argentina, joined by 5,000 people after founding the organization. The organization has been pushing Argentina to do the Climate and Ecological Emergency Declaration.

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