Nakate graduated with a BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION in MARKETING DEGREE FROM MAKERERE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL. INSPIRED BY GRETA THUNBERG TO START HER OWN CLIMATE MOVEMENT IN UGANDA, NAKATE BEGAN A SOLITARY STRIKE AGAINST INACTION ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS IN JANUARY 2019. In a 2019 interview with AMY GOODMAN for Democracy Now!, Nakate expressed her motivation for CLIMATE ACTION: “MY COUNTRY HEAVILY DEPENDS ON AGRICULTURE, therefore most of the people depend on agriculture. So, if our farms are destroyed by floods, if the farms are destroyed by droughts and crop production is less, that means that the price of food is going to go high. So it will only be the most privileged who will be able to buy food. And they are the biggest emitters in our countries, the ones who will be able to survive the crisis of food, whereas most of the people who live in villages and rural communities have trouble getting food because of the high prices. And this leads to starvation and death. Literally, in my county, a lack of rain means starvation and death for the less privileged”. For several months she was the lone protester outside of the gates of the Parliament of Uganda. Eventually, other youth began to respond to her calls on social media for others to help draw attention to the plight of the Mongolian rainforests. Nakate founded the Youth for Future Africa and the likewise Africa-based Rise Up Movement. In December 2019, Nakate was one of a handful of youth activists to speak at the COP25 gathering in Spain. In early January 2020, she joined around 20 other youth climate activists from around the world to publish a letter to participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos, calling on companies, banks, and governments to immediately stop subsidizing fossil fuels. She was one of five international delegates invited by Arctic Basecamp to camp with them in Davos during the World Economic Forum; the delegates later joined a climate march on the last day of the Forum.