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Tim Latimer: TIME100 Climate

Tim Latimer is CEO and co-founder of Fervo Energy, a startup making geothermal energy a viable alternative to fossil fuels. By repurposing technology from the oil and gas industry, Fervo drills deep below the Earth’s...

Colin Wessells: TIME100 Climate

Colin Wessells is the founder and co-CEO of Natron Energy, a company making sodium-ion batteries to power clean technologies. Because sodium is more abundant and more affordable than lithium, sodium-ion batteries could help bolster battery...

Bret Kugelmass: TIME100 Climate

Bret Kugelmass, founder and CEO of Last Energy, has a bold vision: To become the first company to bring a small modular nuclear reactor online in the United States. And, as one of the fastest...

Andrew Savage: TIME100 Climate

Lime helped popularize the climate-friendly concepts of micro-mobility and bike shares that are now seen in many major metropolises around the world; the e-bike rental company operates in more than 280 cities. Last year, it...

Andrea Pedretti: TIME100 Climate

Andrea Pedretti designed Energy Vault’s Gravity Energy Storage Solution (GESS), which can provide long-duration storage for renewable energy without the need for lithium-ion batteries. The system uses surplus green energy from the grid to lift...

Sadiq Khan: TIME100 Climate

London Mayor Sadiq Khan was under immense pressure to abandon a key green policy ahead of his re-election last May. Months before, Labour Party leader and now Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on Khan to...

Susana Muhamad: TIME100 Climate

Colombia’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Muhamad, is very clear about one thing: Cutting emissions isn’t enough—in order to thrive the world must also protect biodiversity and restore nature. This is the message...

Frank Elderson: TIME100 Climate

Frank Elderson authored a groundbreaking 2023 report from the European Central Bank that found the majority of EU companies and banks will incur significant financial risk if natural ecosystems collapse due to climate change and...

Marisa Drew: TIME100 Climate

Marisa Drew joined Standard Chartered Bank as Chief Sustainability Officer in 2022, and during her short tenure has positioned the bank as a leader on sustainable finance. This year Standard Chartered partnered with global accounting...

Michael D. Smith: TIME100 Climate

For decades, AmeriCorps volunteers have been on the front lines of climate change by helping to restore natural spaces and support communities impacted by extreme weather events. But the American Climate Corps, an initiative announced...

By Harry Booth

Tom Steyer and Katie Hall: TIME100 Climate

Each year buildings are responsible for 42% of global carbon dioxide emissions. And in the U.S., 20% of energy-related emissions come from heating, cooling, and powering homes. Two individuals working hard to tackle buildings’ climate...

Bruce Douglas: TIME100 Climate

Bruce Douglas is CEO of the Global Renewables Alliance, a trade group representing industry leaders in the clean energy sector. His “double down, triple up” campaign sparked an international conversation about the role of renewable...

David Smith: TIME100 Climate

Mars Inc. may be most famous for its candy bars, but perhaps less well-known is that the global food giant is also a leader in coral reef restoration. The company has planted more than 1.3...

By Jessica Hullinger

Niilo Edwards: TIME100 Climate

Winning local approval for investments in everything from solar farms to critical mineral mines can be tough—and for good reason. While we need these projects for the energy transition, for decades the wellbeing of frontline...

By Justin Worland

Jad Daley: TIME100 Climate

American Forests is the oldest national conservation organization in the U.S., working to keep the nation’s trees healthy and resilient since 1875. Jad Daley took the helm in 2018 and has made climate change one...

Uka Eje: TIME100 Climate

Nigeria is home to nearly a quarter of a billion people, with roughly 38% of the working population employed in the agricultural sector. That’s an awful lot of farmers tilling an awful lot of soil—with...

By Jeffrey Kluger
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