The 100 Most Influential People Leading Action Against Climate Change

After the mbadive youth protests around the world who, under the slogan #FridayForFuture, have called on governments to take concrete and urgent action to tackle climate change, the organization Apolitical has developed a list of political leaders, leaders, academics and activists from around the world who are working on concrete actions based on hundreds of field appointments and non-governmental organizations .

Apolitical – sponsored by the European Commission, the World Economic Forum, the Government of Canada and the United Kingdom Cabinet – selected 100 people who lead concrete policy changes, in a list from dad Francisco up & # 39; to Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who led the movement #FridayForFuture, pbading through US lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders.

There are also personalities such as the writer and the activist Naomi Klein, the CEO of Bloomberg LP Michael Bloomberg, the executive director of Greenpeace International Jennifer Morgan and the winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics William Nordhaus and Paul Romer.

Among the Latin Americans cited are the Brazilian political leader Marina Silva; the Secretary of the Government of the Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina Sergio Bergman; the mexican Patricia EspinosaExecutive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); the Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, the mayor of Quito Mauricio Rhodes and the Colombian Jamie Margolin, founder of Zero Hour.

"Among the recognized personalities are high-level activists whose work is essential to raise awareness and demand change, while others are rising stars who mark local communities and are at the base of the progress of the government", explained the NGO.

The list was organized in five categories: "Top 20", "Youth", "Politics and Government", "Academy and Environmentalists" and "International Organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations".

Then the complete list:

1. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (US Congressman)

2. Anne Hidalgo (Mayor of Paris, France)

3. Anthony Nyong (Director of the African Development Bank Group on Climate Change and Green Growth)

4. Bill McKibben (co-founder of 350.org)

5. Catherine Mckenna (Minister of the Environment and Climate Change of the Government of Canada)

6. David Attenborough (communicator and historian of nature)

7. Fatih Birol (Executive Director of the International Energy Agency)

8. Greta Thunberg (Swedish youth activist behind #FridayForFuture)

9. Hilda Heine (President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands)

10. Hoesung Lee (Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

11. Jennifer Morgan (Executive Director of Greenpeace International)

12. Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko (Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture of the Commission of the African Union)

13. Katharine Hayhoe (Director, Texas Tech University Climate Science Center)

14. Marina Silva (Head of the Sustainability Network Party, Brazil)

15. Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP CEO)

16. Michael Mann (Director of the Earth System Science Center, University of Pennsylvania)

17. Patricia Espinosa (Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC)

18. Pope Francis (leader of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church)

19. Saleemul Huq (Director of the International Center on Climate Change and Development)

20. Xie Zhenhua (Special Representative of the National Commission for Development and Reform of China on Climate Change Issues)

1. Autumn Peltier (Water Rights Activist, Canada)

2. Haven Coleman, Isra Hirsi and Alexandria Villaseñor (co-founders of Youth Climate Strike, USA)

3. Jamie Margolin (founder of Zero Hour, Colombia)

4. Kelsey Juliana (activist, United States)

5. Nalleli Cobo (Coalition Activist Stand LA, USA)

6. Neeshad Shafi (co-founder of the Arab Youth Climate Movement, Qatar)

7. Varshini Prakash (Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Sunrise Movement, Boston)

8. Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (Director of Youth of Earth Guardians)

1. Al Gore (former Vice President of the United States)

2. Bernie Sanders (US Senator)

3. Bryony Worthington (European Director of the Environmental Defense Fund)

4. Carlos Manuel Rodríguez (Minister of the Environment and Energy of Costa Rica)

5. Caroline Lucas (Green Party Leader of Great Britain)

6. Debbie Raphael (Director of the San Francisco Environmental Department, USA)

7. Elizabeth May (Leader of the Green Party of Canada)

8. Harsh Vardhan (Indian Minister for the Environment, Forests and Climate Change)

9. Jay Inslee (Governor of Washington State, USA)

10. Jørgen Abildgaard (Climate Project Manager, Copenhagen, Denmark)

11. Katharina Schulze (politician, member of the Alliance 90 / The Greens, Germany)

12. Li Ganjie (Minister of Ecological Environment of China)

13. Mark Carney (Governor of the Bank of England)

14. Mauricio Rodas (Mayor of Quito, Ecuador)

15. Mohamed Sefiani (Mayor of Chefchaouen, Morocco)

16. Mohammed Adjei Sowah (Mayor of Accra, Ghana)

17. Mukta Tilak (Mayor of Pune, India)

18. Piyush Goyal (Minister of Railways and Coal of India)

19. Rick Kriseman (Mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida)

20. Sergio Bergman (Secretary of the Government of Argentina and Sustainable Development of Argentina)

21. Sheldon Whitehouse (US Senator)

22. Sonam Phuntsho Wangdi (Secretary of the Bhutan National Environmental Commission)

23. Teresa Ribera (Minister of Ecological Transition of the Spanish Government)

24. Tri Rismaharini (Mayor of Surabaya, Indonesia)

Academy and environmentalists

1. Gavin Schmidt (Director, Goddard Institute of Space Studies, NASA, USA)

2. Gina McCarthy (Professor of Public Health Practice, Harvard T.H School of Public Health, T. H. Chan, Harvard, USA)

3. James Hansen (Professor at Columbia University, USA)

4. Johan Rockstrom (Professor at the University of Stockholm, Sweden)

5. Jyoti Kirit Parikh (Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development, New Delhi, India)

6. Ma Jun (Director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs of China)

7. Mark Jacobson (Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, USA)

8. Mark New (Director of the African Initiative on Climate and Development =

9. Myles Allen (Professor at the Institute for Environmental Change at the University of Oxford)

10. Naomi Klein (writer and activist)

11. Naomi Oreskes (Professor of History of Science and Associate Professor of Earth Sciences and Planets at Harvard University, USA)

12. Ngụy Thị Khanh (Executive Director, Center for Innovation and Green Development, Vietnam)

13. Opha Pauline Dube (Professor at the University of Botswana)

14. Ove Hoegh Guldberg (Director, Global Change Institute, University of Queensland, Australia)

15. Peter Gleick (President Emeritus of the Pacific Institute for Development Studies, Environment and Security, USA)

16. Robert Bullard (Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, University of South Texas, USA)

17. Robert Stavins (Professor of Energy and Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA)

18. Sunita Narain (Director General, Center for Science and the Environment, India)

19. Vandana Shiva (activist, India)

20. Victoria Herrmann (President and CEO of the Arctic Institute, USA)

21. William Nordhaus and Paul Romer (Nobel Laureates in Economics)

22. Xuemei Bai (Professor at the National University of Australia)

International organizations and non-governmental organizations

1. Agnes Kalibata (President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa)

2. Amal-Lee Amin (Head of the Climate Change Division of the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB)

3. Andrew Steer (President and CEO of the World Resources Institute)

4. Barbara Buchner (Executive Director Climate Finance Initiative)

5. Catherine Abreu (Executive Director, Climate Action Network of Canada)

6. Christiana Figueres (responsible for the 2020 mission)

7. Connie Hedegaard (Chair of the OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development)

8. Debra Roberts (Co-Chair, Working Group II of the International Panel of Experts on Climate Change)

9. Elizabeth Yeampierre (Executive Director of UPROSE)

10. Hakima El Haité (President of Liberal International)

11. Helen Mountford (New Climate Economy Program Director)

12. Jacqueline Patterson (Director of the Environmental and Climate Justice Program of the National Association for the Advancement of People of Color, USA)

13. James Thornton (CEO of ClientEarth)

14. Jos Delbeke (Senior Advisor of the European Commission's European Policy Center)

15. Laura Tuck (Vice President of Sustainable Development, World Bank)

16. Laurence Tubiana (CEO of the European Climate Foundation)

17. Mahama Kappiah (Executive Director of the ECOWAS Center on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency)

18. Maria Neira (Director of the Department of Public Health, the Environment and Social Determinants of Health of the World Health Organization)

19. May Boeve (Executive Director of 350.org)

20. Michael Brune (Executive Director of Sierra Club)

21. Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner for Climate Action of the European Commission)

22. Mithika Mwenda (Co-founder of the Pan-African Alliance for Climate Justice)

23. Naoko Ishii (Executive Director and President of the Global Environment Facility)

24. Rachel Kyte (CEO Sustainable Energy for All)

25. Rodolfo Lacy (Director of the OECD Environment Directorate)

26. Upendra Tripathy (General Manager of the International Solar Alliance)