Camilo Urbano of Despacio explains how clean urban transportation can reduce 48% of GHG emissions from urban transport in Colombia’s capital Bogota. The city has almost seven...
Olumide Idowu of the International Climate Change Development Initiative (ICCDI Africa) outlines how Africa is working towards renewable energy resources and investing in inn...
ClimateWorks Foundation’s CEO Helen Mountford explains that we can get back on track to meet our climate goals if we accelerate the positive progress that is already being ma...
Peiyuan Guo of Syntao explains that financial institutions must apply a climate lens to their work to be proactive rather than reactive to the climate crisis. These instituti...
Yang Fuqiang from the Institute of Energy at Peking University describes the need to increase ambitions for reducing CO2 emissions, scaling renewable energy, and phasing out ...
Chongqing Renewable Energy Society’s (CRES) Dingping Ma explains what is needed to rapidly scale renewable energy technologies globally. He emphasizes that a successful energ...
Dan Li of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA), which promotes adopting and commercializing renewable energy technologies, emphasizes the need to stren...
Elizabeth Wangeci Chege of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) explains that as heat waves and drought increase in Africa, the demand for cooling in homes, farms, and medic...
Liepa Braciulyte of the New Buildings Institute (NBI) describes the issue of urban heat islands and how NBI is developing building and zoning code language to help cities mit...
Abdulhamid Tahir Hamid of the Global Environmental and Climate Conservation Initiative (GECCI) explains that within the challenges we face with the climate crisis, there are ...
Rice Watch Action Network’s Hazel Tanchuling outlines the climate actions needed to ensure sustainable agriculture and food production. The organization promotes climate-resi...
Karen Scrivener of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) explains how cement contributes significantly to climate change, comprising approximately 8 percent of tot...
Forty-seven leaders from Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and West Africa released open letters calling on world leaders at COP28 to accelerate bold climate acti...
Electric Mission’s Hiten Parmar describes the organization’s work at the nexus of renewable energy and electric mobility in Africa. Hiten and his team strive to create an ena...
Sönke Diesener from the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) explains how they advocate for strict regulation of pollutants from cargo ships and help to establis...
Amit Bhatt manages the International Council on Clean Transportation’s (ICCT) work in India through which the organization partners with the ClimateWorks’ Drive Electric Camp...
In the face of the Global Stocktake, Dhanush Dinesh of ClimEat encourages the climate community to learn from our failures and change the way we approach problems. The organi...
Jason Walsh of the BlueGreen Alliance explains how the organization is ensuring that federal investments to build up a clean energy sector in the United States that creates j...
EcoEquity’s Tom Athanasiou promotes equity principles in climate policy, by producing political and economic analyses and educational materials that highlight equity issues, ...
ClimateWorks’ Shelagh Whitley explains how climate finance plays a key role in turning climate ambitions into action. She also emphasizes the importance of investing in clima...
Hannah Roeyer from the Independent Global Stocktake (iGST) explains how world leaders can harness the Global Stocktake as an accelerator for climate action. COP28 will repres...
International Council on Clean Transportation’s Oscar Delgado outlines the major potential for scaling electric buses in Latin America, which is the most urbanized continent ...
Maria Golda Hilario of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities emphasizes urban mobility’s role in citizens’ safety and dignity, the welfare of transportation worker...
Enrique Maurtua Konstantinidis represents the independent Global Stocktake (iGST) Latin America and Caribbean Hub, a coalition of regional organizations advocating for their ...
Miriam Garcia of CDP Latin America explains the importance of transparency about climate action in order to allow stakeholders to be more effective in fighting the climate cr...
Lolade Abiola of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) is working with partners to build homegrown renewable energy manufacturing industries across Africa. Africa’s rap...
Sustainable Energy for All’s Irina Lazzerini introduces ways that governments and companies can encourage the growth of the renewable energy sector in Southeast Asia. Areas o...
Jei Edora III of the Asian People’s Movement of Debt and Development (APMDD) emphasizes the need for wealthier countries to provide fair climate finance to reduce emissions, ...
The Center for Energy Poverty and Climate’s Mark Wolfe works to ensure that low-income households are able to access resources to weatherize and retrofit their homes with ene...
Lucy Gilliam from Seas at Risk introduces the One Planet Shipping Project which works to to steer shipping down a more sustainable path, and show that it is possible to live ...
Jesse Fahnestock of the Global Maritime Forum emphasizes the importance of collaboration between industries and governments to establish green shipping corridors. These trade...
Transport and Environment’s Faig Abbasov describes their campaign’s efforts to get Europe to regulate international shipping emissions and encourage the use of alternative fu...
Danize Marie Lukban from the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) speaks to the importance of including younger generations in the pursuit of climate solutions...
Opportunity Green’s Aoife O’Leary describes how the organization is advocating for taxes and levies on the aviation and shipping sectors, and ensuring those funds go to count...
Beta Paramita of Be Cool Indonesia is working to expand passive cooling designs like cool roofs and cool walls to bring comfort and safety to her people amidst rising global ...
Elissama Menezes of the Say No to LNG global shipping campaign works to debunk the myth that liquified natural gas, or LNG, is a “climate-friendly” marine fuel alternative an...
Silvia Rojas of the Costa Rican Association of Electric Mobility (ASOMOVE) works to promote electric mobility in her country and across Latin America to support the transitio...
ODI’s Charlene Watson leads the finance working group of the independent Global Stocktake or iGST, a consortium of more than 20 organizations from around the world engaging a...
Together with partners, Ingrid Irigoyen of Aspen Institute helped launch the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA). This first-of-its-kind buyers group within the ma...
Grace Healy of Pacific Environment explains how most products from major retailers travel overseas in heavily polluting cargo ships, negatively affecting the climate, coastal...
