Dr. Amiera Sawas is Head of Research & Policy at the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, where she is working to design provisions and mechanisms that will enable countries to access fair finance to transition away from fossil fuels in a just and equitable way. Amiera is a feminist researcher and advocate who works at the intersections of climate change, gender justice, public participation and the social contract. Amiera has a PhD on water, climate and human rights in Pakistan and is a contributing author to the IPCC sixth assessment report on gender and climate security. As a person of both Syrian and Irish heritage, with close links to Pakistan, she has lived life with an acute awareness of the impacts of colonial histories and believes passionately in the need to decolonise