25 trailblazing women leaders on climate
Brazil’s new environment minister is the daughter of poverty-stricken Amazonian rubber tappers. As a teenager, Silva lost her two sisters and mother to disease introduced after bulldozers arrived to construct a highway near their hamlet. She founded the independent trade union movement with Chico Mendes, and in the 1980s the pair began the empates movement, peaceful demonstrations by rubber-tapping communities refusing to be expelled from their forest homes.
The new Colombian environment minister is a political scientist and environmentalist who first became known for her fierce defence of a nature reserve that a former mayor of Bogota wanted to develop. She was one of the founders of the Fracking-Free Colombia Alliance, and served as secretary of environment for Bogota.
Sandrine Dixson-Declève has spent more than 30 years working in European and international policy, focusing on climate change, sustainable development, green growth and sustainable finance. She and her co-president Mamphela Ramphele are the first women to lead the Club of Rome, which in 1972 warned that resource depletion would put the brakes on economic growth in its prescient report The Limits to Growth.
In 2021 DSM was ranked first in the European Women on Boards gender diversity index, in recognition of Matchett's leadership and the fact that women make up 54% of DSM’s executive-level employees. She is co-chair of the HRH the Prince of Wales’ Accounting for Sustainability CFO Leadership Network.For more than two decades, Esther An has helped the Singapore-based real estate business set global benchmarks for green construction and sustainability.
According to LanzaTech, the carbon-reducing capacity of each operational plant is the equivalent of removing 120,000 cars off the road annually. The Illinois-based company achieved a major breakthrough towards commercialization last month when it merged with AMCI Acquisition Corp and got a listing on Nasdaq.
Miranda was born in Qingdao, China and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. Her work in the plastics circular economy space began after visiting the Vancouver South Waste Transfer. What started as a science fair project with school friend Jeanny Yao, who later became her cofounder, led to a speaking opportunity at the TED2013 conference on an idea to break down plastic waste. In 2015, Novoloop was founded.
In 2003, she founded Boston Common Asset Management, an independent, women-led and majority women- and employee-owned firm. Today the Boston-based asset manager has $5.7 billion in assets under management, and is a recognised stalwart in global impact initiatives dedicated to the pursuit of financial return and social change. She has built a strong investment record, and improved the policies and practices of portfolio companies through impactful, proactive shareowner engagement.
After Wangaris’s death in 2011, Wanjira took over leading the green belt movement. She is also head of the Wangari Maathai Foundation, which promotes a culture of purpose among young people, preparing them for leadership roles and fighting a culture of corruption in Kenya, which she has said is the biggest barrier to progress.
A member of the Mbororo pastoralist people in Chad, Hindou Oumarou Ibahim is an expert in the adaptation and mitigation of indigenous peoples to climate change. Al Busaidi is the youngest Omani woman to step foot on the South Pole. She founded WomeX, a platform to teach negotiation skills for Arab women in order to facilitate emerging female entrepreneurs in the Arab region.
She founded Reclaim Finance in 2020 after several years of campaigning on how financial institutions impact human rights and the environment. From 2013 to 2017, Lucie worked as a campaigner for Friends of the Earth France, convincing some of the largest French insurers, banks and investors to adopt the first policies to restrict support for several fossil fuel sub-sectors.
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