Youth-led climate justice across borders.
The people behind Climate Justice for Rosa.
We are a youth-led organisation rooted in Rosa’s memory and connected to young activists and survivors across borders. We make climate victims visible, bring survivors into the rooms where decisions are made, and hold those in power accountable when delay and inaction cost lives.
- Youth-led
- International
- Rooted in lived experience
- Independent
01 / Our beginning
Young people built this organisation.
Climate Justice for Rosa began after Rosa lost her life at 15 in the 2021 European floods. The floods killed more than 220 people across Europe.
Benjamin Van Bunderen Robberechts met Rosa at a summer camp, where they bonded over their shared activism. After her death, he initiated the campaign at 14 and brought Rosa’s friends and family together around a simple conviction: Rosa could not be allowed to become another invisible victim of the climate crisis.
What began as a campaign by young people became an official Belgian non-profit organisation in 2024. Young people continue to choose our priorities, lead our campaigns, and represent CJfR in public and political spaces. Our board and advisers provide the legal, scientific, and strategic support that makes this youth leadership responsible and lasting.
02 / Youth leadership
Campaign Leads
The young people shaping our campaigns, public actions, and international advocacy.
United Kingdom / Germany · Based in Belgium
Campaign Lead
Freya Devlin
Freya leads public mobilisation, marches, and protest actions. Rosa was her lifelong friend, and Freya makes sure that Rosa’s memory remains present in the visible, urgent work of CJfR.
Meet Freya
Belgium
Founder & Campaign Lead
Benjamin Van Bunderen Robberechts
Ben initiated CJfR at 14 and leads its policy advocacy, international work, and accountability campaigns. He connects survivors and young activists with European and international decision-makers.
Meet Ben
Germany / Italy · Based in France
Campaign Lead
Matilda Tedde
Matilda has helped shape CJfR from its earliest days. She contributes to campaign strategy, international outreach, and the careful, human way in which we carry Rosa’s memory into our work.
03 / Our youth team
The young people building CJfR.
Our youth team represents CJfR, contributes to our campaigns and events, and connects our work with young people and communities in Belgium and internationally.
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04 / International collaborators
Young advocates we work with across borders.
Climate expertise also comes from lived experience.
The people below are a selection of the young advocates, survivors, and community leaders we work with around the world. Many lead their own organisations and campaigns while collaborating with us on shared advocacy, events, and international initiatives.
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05 / Governance & expertise
Supporting youth leadership.
Our board safeguards the organisation and provides legal, organisational, and strategic guidance. It supports the direction set by the Campaign Leads.
Founder & Day-to-Day Lead
Benjamin Van Bunderen Robberechts
Climate and children’s rights activist. Ben founded CJfR and is formally responsible for its day-to-day management, connecting the organisation’s legal governance with the priorities and direction of its youth leadership.
Chair
Stef Craps
Professor at Ghent University specialising in climate change, ecological mourning, memory, and trauma. Stef helps deepen CJfR’s work on public memory and responsible storytelling.
Secretary
Alec Van Vaerenbergh
Energy and ESG lawyer and partner at DLA Piper. Alec provides legal and governance expertise informed by his work on energy regulation and international climate negotiations.
Scientific Adviser
Wim Thiery
Climate scientist at VUB
Wim helps ensure that CJfR’s advocacy is grounded in the best available climate science. His research focuses on extreme weather and the unequal climate burden carried by younger generations. He also helps us keep the people behind the statistics at the centre of the conversation.
Explore My Climate Future06 / Working together
Change requires a coalition.
CJfR is youth-led, but we do not work alone.
We work with organisations, networks, affected communities, researchers, and public institutions that bring different forms of knowledge and experience to climate justice. These relationships strengthen our work on remembrance, accountability, children’s rights, and meaningful youth participation.
Organisations we work with
Ongoing collaborators with whom we share advocacy, events, research, community connections, or international initiatives.
Networks and coalitions
Wider structures through which CJfR works with other organisations and movements.
Climate victims memorial coalition
Building public remembrance together.
The permanent climate victims memorial is being designed by internationally renowned landscape architect Bas Smets and developed with Greenpeace Belgium, Amnesty International Belgium, Oxfam Belgium, the Climate Coalition, Réseau Wallon de Lutte contre la Pauvreté, River Cleanup, and Positive Impact Team.
European and international engagement
Bringing lived experience into decision-making.
CJfR contributes to policy discussions, consultations, events, and advocacy involving the Council of Europe, institutions of the European Union, and United Nations bodies.
The nature of each relationship is different. We describe organisations as collaborators, coalition members, or institutions we engage with according to the work we actually do together.
07 / Friends & allies
People who helped the work grow.
Friends, mentors, and collaborators who have offered time, expertise, creativity, and access to help CJfR carry its work further.
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Build the next chapter with us
Our work grows through people who choose to act.
Support survivor-led climate action, volunteer your skills, or contact us about working together.