--- description: Find out why Sherry Rehman is one of the 100 most influential people of 2023. title: Sherry Rehman: The 100 Most Influential People of 2023 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b753e7d4c429ddd/698a3bca01168241a9982e88/Sherry-Rehman-time100-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 13, 2023 # Sherry Rehman by Jennifer Morgan  Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's minister of climate change, speaks during an interview in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022\. Rehman knows that her country is playing a crucial role in setting the agenda at COP27 this year. And she weighs her words carefully when pushing for Pakistan's goals. Photographer: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg via Getty Images Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's minister of climate change, speaks during an interview in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022\. Rehman knows that her country is playing a crucial role in setting the agenda at COP27 this year. And she weighs her words carefully when pushing for Pakistan's goals. Photographer: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAsim Hafeez—Bloomberg/Getty Images There are many terrible sides to the climate crisis, but one of the most distressing is that it is hitting hardest those countries that are least responsible for it. Pakistan is responsible for only a fraction of global emissions, but the climate crisis led to more than a [third of the country being flooded last year](https://time.com/6209967/pakistan-floods-what-to-know/ "undefined"). The water had not yet fully receded when [Sherry Rehman](https://time.com/6218276/pakistan-floods-climate-minister/ "undefined") arrived in Egypt for [COP27, the U.N. climate summit](https://time.com/6235380/cop27-new-climate-action-paradigm/ "undefined"), in November. There, as Pakistan’s Minister for Climate Change, she gave a voice to those who had lost everything to the floods. Through impassioned speeches and tireless engagement in negotiations, she convinced many of the delegates that the blatant injustice must come to an end. COP27 ended with a historic decision—the world community agreed for the first time to establish new loss and damage funding arrangements to support the most vulnerable countries. This is a big step toward climate justice, but we still have a long way to go. We will need more people like Sherry Rehman along the way. _Morgan is Germany’s state secretary and special envoy for international climate action_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269869/sherry-rehman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269869/sherry-rehman/"},"headline":"Sherry Rehman","datePublished":"2023-04-13T10:32:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:22:05.670Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269869/sherry-rehman/","keywords":["TIME 100","franchise","sponsorshipblock","TIME100 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b753e7d4c429ddd/698a3bca01168241a9982e88/Sherry-Rehman-time100-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b753e7d4c429ddd/698a3bca01168241a9982e88/Sherry-Rehman-time100-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269869/sherry-rehman/","name":"Sherry Rehman"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME100 | The 100 Most Influential People of 2023","description":"See all the people on Time's 2023 Time 100 list","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/P6RIsapV/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2023-04-13T10:30:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/P6RIsapV.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269869/sherry-rehman/","duration":"PT1M53S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269869/sherry-rehman/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```