Most significant positive evidence
The dominant evidence concerns measurable ecological restoration, women's empowerment, democratic courage and a practical integration of environment, poverty, rights and peace.
Person
Wangari Maathai
The assessment covers the Green Belt Movement, women's economic participation, reforestation, resistance to land-grabbing and authoritarianism, democratic advocacy and environmental peacebuilding.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+87.09
Reasoned summary
Maathai achieved unusually coherent ethical impact: local action improved livelihoods and ecosystems while also expanding democratic space and women's public power.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
The score is moderated mainly by the limits of attribution for every claimed tree or programme outcome and by the normal political compromises of parliamentary and ministerial service.
Read the full Wangari Maathai ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +85.00
- Rights and dignity
- +85.00
- Nonviolence and harm
- +90.00
- Stewardship of power
- +90.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +85.00
- Consequential legacy
- +87.53
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Wangari Maathai (1977–2011)
1977–2011 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile