BENEFICIARIOS DE CLIMATE BREAKTHROUGH

Isabel Cavelier Adarve is a Colombian changemaker who envisions an equitable transition towards a clean, just, and regenerative economy and society across Latin America. PROFILE Isabel understood and harnessed the power of diplomacy in pushing for change in her time as a diplomat representing her country. Now she wants to use that experience to take care of leaders, expanding and deepening their reach to bring climate policies

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 key qualities of a Climate Breakthrough Awardee: ambition, a strategic mind, systems-changing thinking, and a track record of effecting change. Denise is president emeritus of Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC), a network of key U.S. nonprofits coalescing to advance

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 climate change.  SELECTION AND BREAKTHROUGH STRATEGIES Few people have Sara’s ability to dive deeply into the technical while continuing to foster and strengthen a larger vision. Sara has deep expertise in financial and energy markets and uses this

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 forests with the same holistic, solutions-focused perspective she once used to address the root cause of symptoms in a patient.  Over the last two decades, as the Founder and Executive Director of the Canada-based NGO Canopy, Nicole

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 strategy will focus on accelerating Vietnam’s clean energy economy, safeguarding clean air and water for public health, and sharing lessons with partners in Southeast Asia to usher in a clean energy era for the region. In 2011 the

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. She was a creator and lead negotiator of the Great Bear Rainforest agreement that protected 6 million hectares of old growth forests, co-founded Stand.earth (previously ForestEthics), and was co-director of Greenpeace’s Global Climate and Energy program

May es la fundadora de GoalBlue, una nueva organización no gubernamental que busca imponer tendencias duraderas y de alimentación y estilo de vida que produzcan bajas emisiones de carbono entre las poblaciones de clase media, urbanas y mileniales de rápido crecimiento en China. Ella comenzó por tomar dos de las fuentes de emisiones de mayor crecimiento en China: el consumo de carne y la posesión de autos

Fuqiang lidera un proyecto para diseñar un límite en el consumo de petróleo en China, que contribuiría a que el país «superara la era del petróleo» y avanzara con rapidez hacia el uso de energía limpia. Fuqiang es un asesor experimentado en materia de cambio climático, energía y medio ambiente de la Comisión Nacional de Desarrollo y Reforma de la República Popular China. Cuenta con una amplia