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The greatest predictor of whether an idea will succeed or fail is who’s leading it. A Climate Breakthrough Awardee boasts a rare combination of traits: a social innovator with the demonstrated ability to effect change, an ambitious strategist thinking at immense scale, and a visionary with an uncommon audacity paired with humility and compassion.

LOCAL ROOTS, GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER
AWARDEE 2024

ALEX DOUKAS
AWARDEE 2024

KIMIKO HIRATA
AWARDEE 2024

TERO MUSTONEN
AWARDEE 2024

JANE KLEEB
AWARDEE 2023

GITA SYAHRANI
AWARDEE 2023

ISABEL CAVELIER ADARVE
AWARDEE 2022

JAMES IRUNGU MWANGI
AWARDEE 2022

SANJIV GOPAL, BRIKESH SINGH, VINUTA GOPAL AWARDEE 2022

KATHRIN GUTMANN
AWARDEE 2021

SARA JANE AHMED
AWARDEE 2021

DENISE FAIRCHILD
AWARDEE 2021

NICOLE RYCROFT
AWARDEE 2020

MOHAMED ADOW
AWARDEE 2020

TZEPORAH BERMAN
AWARDEE 2019

SEBASTIÁN KIND
AWARDEE 2019

NGUY THI KHANH
AWARDEE 2019

ARIEF RABIK
AWARDEE 2019

TESSA KHAN
AWARDEE 2018

BRUCE NILLES
AWARDEE 2018

YANG FUQIANG
AWARDEE 2017

MAY MEI
AWARDEE 2016

JOHN HEPBURN
AWARDEE 2016

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