100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN CLIMATE POLICY WORLDWIDE
Submitted by christian on Sun, 12/31/2023 - 15:37
Based on Nationality
Angola
- Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission, Known for: Climate-proofing African agriculture
Argentina
- Sergio Bergman, Former Environment Minister, Argentina, Known for : Including faith-based communities in environmental legislation
Australia
- Ove Hoeg Guldberg, Director, Global Change Institute, University of Queensland
- Xuemei Bai, Professor, Australian National University
Austria
- Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director, Climate Policy Initiative, Known for: Climate finance
Bangladesh
- Saleemul Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Known for: Climate mitigation and adaptation in the global south
- Rafiqul Islam Montu, Environmental Journalist, Known for : Coastal climate journalism and photography
Barbados
- Mia Motley, Prime Minister of Barbados, Known for: Creating Global South Climate Partnerships
Belgium
- Jos Delbeke, Senior Adviser, European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission
Bhutan
- Sonam Phuntsho Wangdi, Secretary, National Environment Commission, Bhutan, Known for: Helping Bhutan achieve net zero status.
Botswana
- Opha Pauline Dube, Professor, University of Botswana
Brazil
- Marina Silva, Spokeswoman, Sustainability Party, Known for: Forest and livelihood protector.
- Raoni Metuktire, Kayapo Cacique (Political Leader) & Brazilian Environmentalist Kayapo Nation, Known for: International rainforest advocacy
- Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio De Janeiro, Known for: Connecting climate-conscious cities.
Canada
- Autumn Peltier, Clean Water Activist
- Elizabeth May, Leader, Green Party of Canad, Known for: Canada’s first green MP
- Catherine Abreu, Founder & Executive Director, Destination Zero, known for: Building climate partnerships across Canada.
- Naomi Klein, Author and activist
China
- Xie Zhenhua, Special Representative for Climate Change Affairs, National Development and Reform Commission, China, Known fir: Coordinating international carbon reduction.
- Huang Runqiu, Chinese Minister of Ecology and Environment, Known for: Orchestrating China’s foreign coal divestment
- Ma Jun, Director, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs
Costa Rica
- Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Minister of Environment and Energy, Known for: Sustainable environmental use incentives
- Christiana Figueres, Convener, Mission 2020
Côte d’Ivoire
- Anthony Nyong, Director for Climate Change and Green Growth, African Development Bank Group, Known for: Climate conscious development
Denmark
- Jørgen Abildgaard, Executive Climate Project Director, Copenhagen Known for: Copenhagen 2025 Climate Plan
- Connie Hedegaard, Chair, OECD Round Table for Sustainable Development, Known for: Pushing European climate action
Djibouti
- Ayan Mahamoud, Initiative on Drought Resilience Coordinator, Known for: Climate and drought resilience planner
Ecuador
- Nemonte Nenquino, President of the Waorani of Patazo and Co-founder of Ceibo Alliance, Waorani Nation, Known for: Protector of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Eswatini
- Jason Hickel, bi-national Eswatini and United Kingdom, Economic Anthropologist, Known for: Degrowth advocate and scholar.
France
- Anne Hidalgo, Mayor, City of Paris, Known for: City climate transitions
- Laurence Tubiana, CEO, European Climate Foundation
Germany
- Jennifer Morgan, Special Representative for International Climate Policy, German Federal Foreign Office, bi national USA, Germany, Known for: Leading climate campaigner
- Katharina Schulze, Politician, Alliance 90/The Greens party, Known for: Grassroots-party cooperation on green issues
Ghana
- Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Former Mayor, City of Accra, Known for: Improving the environmental health of Accra
- Mahama Kappiah, Former Executive Director, ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
India
- Harsh Vardhan, Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Known for: Anti-plastic bag campaigns
- Upendra Tripathy, Director General, International Solar Alliance
- Jyoti Kirit Parikh, Executive Director, Integrated Research and Action for Development.
- Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and the Environment
- Vandana Shiva, Activist
Indonesia
- Tri Rismaharini, Minister of Social Affairs, Known for: Cleaning and greening Surabaya
Japan
- Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
Kenya
- Mithika Mwenda, Co-Founder, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance
Lithuania
- Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for Environment, Ocean, and Fisheries, Known for: Protecting Europe's environmental integrity
Mexico
- Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Known for: International cooperation on climate change.
- Rodolfo Lacy, Director, Environment Directorate, OECD
Morocco
- Mohamed Sefiani, Mayor, City of Chefchaouen, Known for: Sustainable city transitions in Morocco
- Hakima El Haité, President, Liberal International
Pakistan
- Ayisha Siddiqa, Co-Founder of Fossil Free University and Polluters Out, Known for: Climate justice activist and climate litigation scholar.
Portugal
- Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, Known for: Promoting international climate action.
Qatar
- Neeshad Shafi, Co-Founder, Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar, Known for: Youth climate activism in the Middle East.
Rwanda
- Agnes Kalibata, President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Known for: African agricultural resilience.
South Africa
- Mpho Parks Tau, Member of the Executive Council, Economic Development for Gauteng Province, Known for: Equitable urban climate transitions
- Debra Roberts, Co-Chair, Working Group II, International Panel on Climate Change.
- Mark New, Director, African Climate and Development Initiative
South Korea
- Hoesung Lee, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Known for: Chairing the IPCC
Spain
- Teresa Ribera, Spanish Minister for Ecological Transition, Known for: Ecological transition in Spain.
- Maria Neira, Director, Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, WHO
- Miguel Arias Cañete, Former Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, European Commission
Sweden
- Greta Thunberg, Youth Activist, Known for: School strike for climate
- Johan Rockström, Professor, Stockholm University
Switzerland
- Corine Mauch, Mayor of Zurich, Known for: Ending Zurich’s gas dependency
- Julia Steinberger, Ecological Economist, Known for: Ecological economics advocacy
Turkey
- Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency, Known for: Energy transitions in developing nations.
Uganda
- Hilda Nakabuye, Co-Founder of Fridays for Future Uganda: Known for: Advocating for African voices in climate action
- Vanessa Nakate, Climate Activist, Known for: The first Ugandan school strike activist and founder of Youth for Future Africa
- Dickens Kamugisha, Chief Executive Officer of Africa Institute for Energy Governance, Known for: Oil development activist and sustainable community energy leader.
United Kingdom
- Kate Raworth, Economist, currently on the World Health Organisations' council for Known for: ‘Economics for Health of All’.
- David Attenborough, Broadcaster and Natural Historian, Known for: Nature communications
- Caroline Lucas, Co-Leader, Green Party, Known for: Popularizing green politics in the UK
- Amal-Lee Amin, Chief of Climate Change Division, Inter-American Development Bank
- Sam Fankhauser, Oxford Net Zero Research Director and Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Known for: Green growth research
- Ben Caldecott, Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and the Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance, University of Oxford, Known for: Promoting sustainable finance
- Myles Allen, Professor, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
United States
- Bill McKibben, Co-Founder, 350.org, Known for: Founding 350.org
- Katherine Hayhoe, Director, Climate Science Centre, Texas Tech University, Known for: Bridging climate science and communication
- Michael Mann, Director, Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University, Known for: Communicating climate change to policymakers
- Nalleli Cobo, Activist, Stand LA Known for: Combating urban oil rigs in L.A.
- Debbie Raphael, Former Director, San Francisco Department of the Environment, Known for: Introducing ambitious carbon neutral programs in San Francisco
- Jay Inslee, Governor, Washington State, Known for: State-level renewable energy transitions
- Rick Kriseman, Mayor, St Petersburg, Florida, Known for: Community solar energy projects
- Jon Creyts, Rocky Mountain Institute CEO, Known for: Market-based climate solutions
- Elizabeth Yeampierre, Executive Director, UPROSE, Puerto Rico
- Helen Mountford, CEO and President, ClimateWorks Foundation, USA, Scotland
- Jacqueline Patterson: The Chisholm Legacy Project, Founder and Executive Director, Known for: Just transitions for black communities on the frontlines of climate change.
- James Thornton, CEO, ClientEarth
- Laura Tuck, Vice-President, Sustainable Development, World Bank Group
- Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club
- Rachel Kyte, Dean at The Fletcher School at Tufts University
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Urban Ocean Lab Co-Founder, Known for: Ocean climate action advocacy
- Gavin Schmidt, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- Gina McCarthy, Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- James Hansen, Professor, Columbia University
- Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Envionmental Engineering, Stanford University
- Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
- Peter Gleick, President Emeritus Pacific Institute
- Robert Bullard, Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University
- Robert Stavins, Professor of Energy & Economic Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Victoria Herrmann, President and Managing Director, The Artic Institute
Vietnam
- Nguy Thi Khank, Executive Director, Green Innovation and Development Centre, Vietnam
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