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Meet the 2021 Climate Breakthrough Awardees

The Climate Breakthrough Project, a philanthropic organization focused on climate change mitigation, has named the three recipients of its 2021 Climate Breakthrough Award, the largest environmental award for individuals.

Each of the awardees, who for the first time are all women, will receive three million US dollars to design and implement their breakthrough climate change strategies. 

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Progress isn’t enough. We need breakthroughs.

We are losing the race to prevent the most catastrophic impacts of global warming. Efforts to address the crisis simply have not been enough. The planet needs new transformative strategies.

The Climate Breakthrough Project finds extraordinary strategists and gives them the time, space, and resources to create and implement the boldest strategies they can conceive to mitigate climate change.

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We're looking for the world's best problem solvers.

Breakthrough leaders solve problems by creating new solutions that overcome, or entirely circumvent, seemingly intractable barriers. We give multimillion dollar grants to individuals or small teams with a track record of successfully building new projects and an ability to think big. We want people who will have the vision and discipline to generate systemic change and make a global impact within ten years.

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Our funders include:

David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Oak Foundation
Good Energies Foundation
JPB Foundation
IKEA Foundation
Quadrature Climate Foundation

Climate Breakthrough Awardees

Denise Fairchild

A veteran leader in environmental justice and community development, Denise Fairchild is dedicated to untangling the multidisciplinary root causes of climate change. SELECTION AND BREAKTHROUGH STRATEGIES Denise Fairchild exemplifies the
Award Year 2021

Sara Jane Ahmed

Sara Jane Ahmed is a finance advisor and strategist who sees transitioning to a resilient and clean energy economy as the path to prosperity for the countries most vulnerable to
Award Year 2021

Kathrin Gutmann

Kathrin Gutmann is an ambitious climate strategist looking to push Europe towards a future that is not only coal-free but completely fossil-free and fully powered by renewable energy, transformed in
Award Year 2021
Mohamed Adow

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

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
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