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Mohamed Adow

Mohamed Adow is an international climate policy expert and ardent advocate for the people of developing nations—who are disproportionately affected by climate change but play almost no role in causing

Award Year 2020

Nicole Rycroft

Nicole Rycroft is an accomplished environmental activist, an Ashoka Fellow, and, unusually, a former physiotherapist and elite rower. A systems thinker, she confronts the world’s rapid and dangerous destruction of

Award Year 2020

Nguy Thi Khanh

Nguy Thi Khanh is a pioneer leader of Vietnam’s environmental movement and has played an instrumental role in shifting Vietnam from coal and towards renewables and energy efficiency. Khanh’s breakthrough

Award Year 2019

Arief Rabik

Arief Rabik is the director of Indonesia’s Environmental Bamboo Foundation and the founder of the 1000 Bamboo Villages project, which aims to create economic viability for the use of bamboo

Award Year 2019

Sebastián Kind

As the Undersecretary for Renewable Energy in Argentina, Sebastián was the architect and primary driver of Argentina’s RenovAr program, which has attracted over $7.4 billion USD in clean energy investments resulting

Award Year 2019

Tzeporah Berman

Tzeporah Berman has a long record of leading and winning major environmental campaigns and negotiating significant policy victories. Now she is focused on curtailing the global oil and gas supply.

Award Year 2019

Tessa Khan

Tessa Khan co-founded the Climate Litigation Network, which supports efforts using the law as a tool to dramatically increase national climate mitigation ambition. The Network supports litigation and movement building

Award Year 2018

Bruce Nilles

Bruce is the founder of Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, which stopped the rush for new coal plants in America, and secured retirement of over half the country’s coal fleet.

Award Year 2018

Yang Fuqiang

Fuqiang is leading a project to design an oil consumption cap in China that would help the country “leap over the age of oil” and move quickly to clean energy.

Award Year 2017

May Mei

May is the founder of GoalBlue, a Chinese startup NGO that aims to spark lasting low-carbon dietary and lifestyle trends among China’s rapidly growing middle class, urban, and millennial populations.

Award Year 2016

John Hepburn

John is Executive Director of The Sunrise Project and co-founder of Unfriend Coal, now Insure Our Future, a network of NGOs and social movements calling for insurers to divest from

Award Year 2016