Why We Exist

The environmental challenges facing the world are serious, interconnected and increasingly urgent. Yet progress is often slowed not only by political difficulty or limited resources, but by fragmentation across science, policy, institutions, regulation and implementation.

In many cases, evidence exists, solutions exist, and risks are increasingly clear. But systems are too often siloed, reactive or misaligned to respond effectively.

Revive Earth exists to help close those gaps — supporting more coherent, timely and practical action.

How We Think and Work

Revive Earth takes a systems-led approach to environmental challenges. We combine scientific and technical insight, policy and governance understanding, practical systems thinking, public-interest communication, and broader knowledge including community and locally grounded perspectives.

People and Collaboration

Revive Earth is being developed as an open and collaborative platform that brings together diverse expertise, perspectives and experience across disciplines and sectors.

Nawaz Haq

Founder, Revive Earth | Systems-Based Climate Solutions

Nawaz brings a diverse entrepreneurial background to his work on climate and environmental challenges. He advises a number of NGOs and businesses and participates in multilateral climate discussions. Adopting a systems-thinking approach, he works at the intersection of science, policy and innovation, helping connect expertise across disciplines to support practical action. His particular interests include air pollution, wider pollution impacts, reducing emissions from existing energy and transport systems, clean energy infrastructure, ocean health and biodiversity.

Wasim Abbas

Trustee, Revive Earth

Wasim is a Scottish-based businessman who works with community initiatives and charities including World Care Foundation. He has travelled around the globe including in Greece, Lebanon, Jordan, France and Turkey providing humanitarian and disaster relief. With extensive ‘on the ground’ experience, Wasim realises the need for systemic improvements necessary to protect communities, especially vulnerable groups, from the impacts of conflicts, poverty and environmental factors that strain food, water and essential supplies.

Bru Pearce

Trustee, Revive Earth

Bru Pearce is Chief Executive of Envisionation, where he leads efforts to advance large-scale biosphere restoration, ecosystem recovery and sustainable development pathways. With a strong focus on systems thinking, partnership building and practical implementation, he works to connect environmental ambition with credible action. His leadership spans land restoration, ocean protection, climate stability and green economic transition. As a Trustee of Revive Earth, Bru brings strategic insight and a deep commitment to restoring natural systems while strengthening long-term resilience and environmental outcomes.

Noreen Haider

Climate Editor & Disaster Risk Reduction Specialist

Noreen is the Climate Editor of The Friday Times. She is a social development professional with vast experience in disaster management. She has worked as a consultant with the National Disaster Management Authority on the GLOF project, World Bank, FAO and many other organizations on water and sustainable development. She is the author of the first Disaster Directory of Pakistan. She is a certified Master Trainer on Climate Change, DRR and DRM. She has developed training resource materials, documentary films and conducted training on DRR, DRM and Disaster reporting all over Pakistan. She writes on environmental issues, cross border water management and climate change for many national and international newspapers and journals.

Dr Muhammad Arfan

PhD in Integrated Water Resources Management | Climate Change & Water Management

Dr Muhammad Arfan is a climate change and water management specialist working with the Government of Punjab on the Punjab Resilient Inclusive Agricultural Transformation project. He is affiliated with Blue Mont Inc., Washington DC. His work critiques prevailing technical approaches to water management in Pakistan, and he has served as a Research Fellow at the US Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Water with expertise in groundwater modeling and integrated water resource management.

Dr Daanish Mustafa

Professor of Critical Geography | Climate Risk & Environmental Hazards

Dr Daanish has done research on critical geographies and Environmental hazards and Climate Risk and contributed in many important reports including The Politics of Water in South Asia and Ecologies of sustainable development goals: a mid-term perspective. Dr Mustafa is the co-author of the first climate change response strategies for Pakistan, in addition to being the lead author for the UNDP in Pakistan Five-year Flood Strategy.

Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

Climate Policy, Finance & Sustainable Development Expert

Ali Sheikh is Pakistan’s leading expert on climate change, policy, and sustainable development, currently serving on the Prime Minister’s Climate Change Council and representing Pakistan on the international board of the Loss and Damage Fund. A 2024 Tamgha-e-Imtiaz recipient, he is a key advisor on climate finance and, as of early 2026, continues to contribute to national policy, including Carbon Market Guidelines. Principal author of Pakistan's National Climate Finance Strategy (2024) and the 2021 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

Dr Huma Sheikh

Senior Consultant Gynaecologist | Women’s Health & Climate Change

Dr Huma is a senior consultant gynaecologist and medical educationist based in Gujranwala, Pakistan, with over 26 years of clinical and teaching experience. Her work spans maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, infertility, ovarian ageing and high-risk obstetrics. She has served as an advocacy champion for sexual and reproductive health and is a member of the RCOG Advisory Board on Climate Change and Sustainability. Alongside her clinical leadership, she mentors MRCOG candidates and contributes to national and international discussions on the intersection of climate change and women’s health.

Ali Bin Shahid

Climate & Ecosystem Repair Architect

Ali Bin Shahid is a Climate and Ecosystem Repair Architect based in Islamabad. His methodology identifies geographic trigger points where hydrology, forest systems, and atmospheric dynamics are tightly coupled, then maps targeted interventions that redirect those dynamics toward recovery. He has applied this framework across active projects in Pakistan, Spain, Colombia, Jordan, Portugal, and California. He is the founder of PSKL Water for All and publishes the Regenesis series on water-cycle repair and atmospheric science, now past 215 episodes. His current work spans ecosystem restoration and land-atmosphere feedback analysis across Europe, Latin America, and South Asia.

Dr Willem Van Deursen

PhD in Physical Geography | Integrated Water Resources & Strategic Water Management

Dr Willem Van Deursen is an independent senior expert in integrated water resources and strategic water management. He has extensive experience of hydrological modeling, participatory modeling, and rapid assessment modeling in urban, rural, and regional scenarios. He has worked in many countries including the Netherlands, Bangladesh, China, Pakistan, and Vietnam. He is an advisor to the Sindh Irrigation Department and Head of Carthago Consultancy Rotterdam.

Goodness Dickson

Advisor

Goodness Dickson is a Nigerian environmentalist and climate activist with years of experience in community development. A Cornell-certified Environmental Educator, Oxford Climate Society alumnus, and Climate Reality Leader trained by Al Gore, he leads impactful climate initiatives. He is the team lead of Eco Clean Active Initiative (ECA) and has mobilized youths and reached thousands through recycling, tree planting, and clean energy projects. His programs have engaged students and communities nationwide. Been a participants at global climate conferences, he advocates for climate justice and continues empowering vulnerable communities.

Hania Imran

Youth Liaison

Hania is a climate leader from Pakistan and founder of Youth Climate Activists Pakistan, a youth-led platform advancing climate education and engagement. She has represented Pakistan at major global forums including COP27, COP28 and the UNFCCC SB62 sessions, and has spoken widely on climate justice, including through two TEDx talks. Her work has been featured by BBC, Vice World News, UNICEF, ICIMOD, The Third Pole, Dawn, Business Recorder, DER SPIEGEL and Radio Pakistan. She is also active in supporting clean air awareness and youth-led climate initiatives in Pakistan and beyond.

Sangeen Khan Mandokhail

Research Assistant - Human Health & Environment

Sangeen is a medical student and global research leader with a strong focus on public health, climate impact, and innovation. He serves as Director for Chapter Quality at the National Students Research Institution (NSRI), overseeing 100+ chapters across 80+ countries and fostering international research collaboration.

Passionate about bridging medicine with environmental and policy challenges, his work explores how climate change and pollution influence human health. He is committed to advancing research culture among youth and promoting preventive, knowledge-driven healthcare.

Brianna Julia Jones

Strategic Messaging Advisor

Brianna Julia Jones is a climate messaging researcher and artist based in Washington, DC. Aiming to align the climate conversation with reality, she studied cognitive neuroscience at MIT and political paradigm shifts at the Max Planck Institute. Now a graduate student at George Washington University, her research explores how US federal policymakers conceptualize climate and energy policy. Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Brianna enjoys coral, ceramics, and seed banking.