20 Women Making Waves in Climate Change Debate Road to Paris
go to original July 23, 2014

Photos: ILO/Albuoy-Pouteau-Crozet, UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe, WEF/swiss-image.ch/Jolanda Flubacher, Climate Commission, WEF/Michael Wuertenberg

When we asked people who they’d like to hear more from on climate and sustainability issues, some simply replied women.

In compiling our list of top fifteen voices in climate change, it was striking that whereas the long list included a lot of women, only three made the final list.

So here’s a list of twenty women making waves in the climate change debate, offered in alphabetical order, and without any men to get in the way. We hope it shows off some of the quiet – and not so quiet – power women do have on this issue, and the diversity of the debate. Gender aside, this list reflects other diversities of the climate debate, with expertise in financial systems, workers’ rights, science, politics, development, media, diplomacy and more.

Barbara Buchner: How will we pay for action on climate change?
Sharan Burrow: Leading the workers’ fight on climate
Winnie Byanyima: Oxfam’s leader bringing expertise on gender and climate change
Heidi Cullen: Climatologist leading us through Years of Living Dangerously
Judith Curry: Blogger and scientist favoured by sceptics
Christiana Figueres: Most powerful woman in climate? Heads the UNFCCC
Tamsin Edwards: Scientist making a name for herself as a fearless communicator
Joanna Haigh: Solar expert, rare female Fellow of the Royal Society
Katherine Hayhoe: Evangelical Christian climate scientist and communicator
Connie Hedegaard: Danish politician, been leading EU work on climate
Lesley Hughes: Scientist standing up to politicians’ scepticism in Australia
Naomi Klein: Writer inviting us to consider ideological sides of climate debate
Annie Leonard: New head of Greenpeace USA, community organizer
Corinne Le Quéré: Scientist highly respected in communications and policy
Gina McCarthy: Head of the EPA, face of Obama’s recent climate push
Naomi Oreskes: Historian of science pointing out the ‘merchants of doubt’
Mary Robinson: First female President of Ireland, UN Special Envoy for Climate Change
Julia Slingo: Helping us understand climate and weather
Koko Warner: World authority on climate change and migration
Ailun Yang: Helping unpick low-cargo development in China and elsewhere

Road to Paris is where science, policy and economics meet on our way to the 2015 climate conference in Paris.

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