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Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is an expert moderator, lecturer, and devoted workshop leader in facilitating sustainable development. Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations, local municipalities, and universities. She is also content director at A Sustainable Tomorrow and co-founder of the global climate NGO Our Kids´Climate.

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is the CEO of North America, We Don’t Have Time. She is a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs. She is also the founder and principal of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform individuals, businesses, and government entities on the complex, interconnected challenges, such as food insecurity and disease, already existing and emerging from a warming planet.

Previously with the Times Newspaper London, the U.N. Environment, and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nick was the Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the Paris Agreement of 2015. More recently, he has served as the Director of Communications for the Global Climate Action Summit that took place in San Francisco in September 2018.

Alexsandra is an entrepreneur and cofounder of Nori, a new carbon removal marketplace. While growing up in Miami FL, she learned of the real impacts that climate change would have on our lives. Driven by a deep sense of urgency to prevent the pending disasters of sea-level rise on the place she loved and called home, Alexsandra explored carbon removal, thermodynamics, sustainable energy, and smart grid technology throughout my career. She worked on clean energy projects at Southern California Edison before pursuing her entrepreneurial nature and joining the founding team at Nori with the joint mission of reversing climate change through enabling global-scale carbon removal and storage.

Anna hold a degree in horticulture from the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and has been working with different aspects of sustainable food systems all my professional life. Recent works include a climate certification for food in Sweden through Svenskt Sigill, a meat guide at WWF Sweden and participation in the WWF international Food Practice. “Be the change you want to see.” Anna Richert

Avit is the Lead Modeller of the Exponential Roadmap initiative, which consolidates solutions and model their exponential implementation strategies to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. His current work focuses on social tipping points. He is an author of the Exponential Climate Action Roadmap reports and also authored the 'World in 2050' report. Avit encounters food and agriculture sector as the dark horse in the fight against climate change. He believes while it may be the hardest to rapidly transform our dietary patterns, the largest opportunity of greenhouse gas sequestration lies underneath if we succeed.

Ben's studies natural and human “fingerprints” in observed climate records. His early research contributed to the historic 1995 conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: “the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate”. He served as lead author of a key chapter of that report. Since 1995, Ben has identified human fingerprints in atmospheric temperature and water vapor, ocean heat content, sea surface temperature in hurricane formation regions, and many other climate variables. In addition to his research, he cares deeply about the communication of climate science to a wide range of audiences.

Carina has highlighted consumption, urbanization and humanity’s growing ecological footprint in WWF strategies as well as in WWF’s biannual publication Living Planet Report. In 2011 she initiated a WWF initiative with a focus on the role of cities in driving the transition towards a future in which we can all live well within the capacity of our one living planet. In her role as a senior advisor to WWF’s global cities program she focuses on how the urban context can mobilize multiple actors to take action to halve emissions each decade while improving health and life quality. Carina is a co-author of the Exponential Roadmap.

Positiva Pengar (Positive Money) is the Swedish branch of International Movement for Monetary Reform. They promote the Sovereign Money reform in which all money—our means to pay—is created without debt by the central bank instead of as it is today, when money is created by the commercial banks in connection with a loan. Carolina believes that the current monetary system where banks are allowed to create money is dysfunctional. The banking sector’s profit-seeking intentions consequently leads to unsustainable economic growth and not an optimum money supply for the planet's ecosystems. Monetary reform advocates around the world are now demanding the state to take back control over the money production and urges the sovereign government to recapture the monetary prerogative.

Cassie Flynn is the Global Director of Climate Change at UNDP. The portfolio supports over 150 countries to take bold climate action. She previously served as the Strategic Advisor on climate change to UNDP’s Administrator and Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Fiji as COP23 President. Cassie is an internationally recognized expert on the treaty negotiations on climate change and has been a featured expert by CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, New York Times, and other publications. Cassie earned her master's degree from Yale University and undergraduate degrees from Bowdoin College.

Chad is a co-author and the lead researcher of the New York Times best-seller Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. In collaboration with a global team of researchers, he designed integrated global models to assess the world’s most effective climate solutions and determine if, when, and how the world can reach “drawdown,” the point in time when the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases begins to decline on a year-to-year basis. Chad works as a systems strategist to build a new, regenerative future with cascading benefits to the environment and to human well-being.

Christiana Figueres is an internationally recognized leader on climate change. She was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016, where she oversaw the delivery of the historic Paris Agreement. Today she is the co-founder of Global Optimism, co-host of the podcast “Outrage & Optimism” and is the co-author of the recently published book, “The Future We Choose.”

Crystal draws on her deep experience and interdisciplinary background in local and state government, law, business and social equity. She cultivates strategic partnerships and networks that foster public engagement to move the world toward scaling climate solutions. She speaks publicly about climate solutions and serves as an expert resource for news media, interest groups and advocacy organizations.

Dan is the Associate Director of The Breakthrough Institute's Food & Agriculture program. He identifies and promotes ways that technological innovation and public policy can decarbonize agriculture. His work has been published and quoted in Forbes, Scientific American, and Grist among other outlets. "In most countries, farmers and food and beverage companies are not required to reduce emissions. Therefore, the private sector has little incentive and reason to invest in breeding crops and animals in ways that reduce greenhouse gas emissions." says Dan.

President of the Bullitt Foundation. Former Director of US National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Former Stanford U professor of engineering and Silicon Valley Attorney. National Coordinator of first Earth Day in 1970.

Donnie has been working with entrepreneurship and innovation for over 25 years, both running his own companies and helping others start theirs. For the past 10 years he has helped shape and build KTH Innovation, the innovation support office at KTH. He is also the founder of the Entrepreneurs Without Borders Foundation, a Swedish organization with global reach on a mission to help local founders start and grow sustainable businesses that can employ.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including debt crises, hyperinflations, the transition from central planning to market economies, the control of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, the escape from extreme poverty, and the battle against human-induced climate change.

Dr. Belisle works in the Global Growth and Opportunity Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she focuses on the role of technology in helping small-scale producers adapt to climate change. She works to help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change. In particular the 122 million more people who may live in extreme poverty by 2030 as a result of climate change on it’s repercussions on low income farmers. "We are not necessarily only evaluating new and unique solutions as we hope to use the full suite of options available to help farmers adapt to climate change." says Dr. Belisle.

Houdini Sportswear has worked with the circular and regenerative business for many years and has become a source of inspiration for other companies. The inspiration is taken from nature and the goal is to have 100% circular products already in 2022. Houdini works according to the motto "reimagine everything" and strives for a change of system to a regenerative way of living and working.

Ibrahim Thiaw has been working within the UN for many years. He’s a specialist in forestry, forestry product techniques and has about 40 years of experience in sustainable development, environmental governance and natural resource management. Alarmed by his own land footprint and whether current products will be affordable for future generations, this year he is on an global awareness-raising campaign about the sustainable consumption and production of food, fibre (fashion), and animal feed.

Ingmar is serial entrepreneur within financial communication and nominated for a DI Gasell Award, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year, Sweden’s Environmental Influencer 2018, and International Gamechanger of the Year 2020, and Green Warrior 2021. Ingmar Rentzhog has been the chairman of the environmental think tank Global Challenge. He is on the board of Naventus Corporate Finance. He’s a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality and European Climate Policy Task Force and he was in 2022 appointed a European Climate Pact Ambassador by the European Commission.

25 years in the IT industry running a range of different business teams. 2010 Started a new life in Portugal as a safe place to survive climate change. Engaged with politics starting Citizens’ Climate Lobby in Portugal in 2015. Created EU focus in 2018 to enable National and European climate policy. 2019 founded Citizens’ Climate Europe to directly engage EU Parliament.

Jansikw is 18 years old and the co founder of Zero Hour’s DC Chapter. She is a young Piscataway Indian and Latina activist bringing attention to the intersectionality of native sovereignty, race, gender, and the environment. Jansi and her friend, Hemakshi Gordy, won first prize in the CSPAN StudentCam competition for their film “No Trespassing: Seeking Justice for Native Women”. They recently submitted another film titled, “In the Shadow of the Capitol”, about the impact of environmental racism.

Jennifer Lenhart is the Global Lead for WWF Cities, a program that has engaged over 500 cities in 50 countries. Jennifer holds a PhD in urban climate governance and has 15 years’ experience addressing urban environmental challenges via holistic approaches. Her fascination with urban planning, including how people interact in and with cities, inspired her blog, the Urban Observer, which chronicled her bicycle lifestyle (then in Amsterdam), recognized by Guardian Cities as one of the best city blogs. She previously worked at UN-Habitat’s Urban Environment Planning Branch in Nairobi, Kenya; the City of Malmö Environment Department, Sweden; and an urban sustainability consultancy in Seattle, USA. She currently parks her bicycle in Santiago de Chile, home for over a year. Jennifer is a co-author of the Exponential Roadmap.

.Jillian leads Sustainability at Ketchum where she drives initiatives and provides counsel related to ESGs, Food and Agriculture, Sustainability, Environmental Justice, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She has spent much of her career advocating for both human and planetary health centered around sustainable solutions like new technologies, regenerative agriculture, alternative proteins, biodiversity, and soil health. Previously she was appointed in the Obama Administration at the United States Department of Agriculture where she created and implemented government initiatives that focused on sustainable agriculture in food deserts, disadvantaged and low-income communities throughout the United States addressing food access issues and nutrition.

Johan Falk is a leader and entrepreneur in exponential strategies for climate and business. Falk is the CEO and Co-founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative, with the mission to accelerate exponential climate action. Falk is the co-lead author of Exponential Roadmap and 1.5°C Business Playbook. Falk is a former Senior Innovation Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth. Falk was one of the initiators of the Global Carbon Law idea, together with Owen Gaffney and Johan Rockström, inspired by Moore's Law. Further, Falk was part of Intel Corporation 2006-2018, responsible for Intel IoT Ignition Lab and heading up the Intel Edge Cloud Game Changer program for 5G networks. Falk received the Intel Global Design Win of the Year 2010 for accelerating the telecom business exponentially to a multi-billion dollar business.

Jona is co-founder and CEO of the car manufacturer and mobility provider Sono Motors. in 2012 the core team embarked on an ambitious journey: the development of an efficient electric car, suitable for everyday use. The Sion is going to be the first series produced SEV (solar electric vehicle) able to also charge its battery with the power of the sun, offering integrated ride, car and power sharing services. Currently Sono Motors is preparing the series production of the Sion.

15 years experience working with the environmental issues of Swedish farming. M.Sc. in Agriculture and Biology from The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU. Communication manager for Svenskt Sigill for 2,5 years. "A climate certification through Svenskt Sigill lead to a reduction in green house gas emissions on the farm. The label help consumers find food with a lower impact on the climate." says Josefin this about her organisations' solution.

Julia Pyper is a contributing editor at Greentech Media where she covers the global clean energy transition. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, as well as the host and producer of Political Climate, a bipartisan podcast on energy and environmental issues in America and around the world, presented by the USC Schwarzenegger Institute. Julia previously covered climate policy for E&E News in Washington, DC, and has conducted reporting projects in Haiti, India, Israel, Germany and beyond. Her writing has also been published in Scientific American and The New York Times.

Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network. Kathleen has developed Earth Day Network into a year-round policy and activist organization. Now more than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day in 192 countries. Kathleen has been at the vanguard of developing innovative financial mechanisms to support green buildings and schools. Kathleen also founded Earth Day Network’s groundbreaking Billion Acts of Green program, which has now recorded close to 3 billion individual actions to improve the environment.

Katie runs conservation and biodiversity programs for Earth Day Network. Katie holds a Master of Science degree from University of Exeter in the U.K., where she worked on the conservation of marine and terrestrial environments around the world. Previously, she worked with Coral Restoration Foundation in the Florida Keys, running programs to restore reef environments.

Khadija is the co-founder of Zero Hour DC, a youth-led, intersectional environmental organization. She is a freshman at the George Washington University studying international affairs and has been a key organizer in the global youth climate strikes. Khadija began her organizing from her home state, Michigan, where she organized the University of Michigan's divestment team.

Dr. Mamta Mehra is an environmental professional with more than ten years of expertise in climate change, agriculture, and natural resource management. Passionate for natural climate solutions, an application-based researcher working on the translation of research into action and a strong advocator for women empowerment and their role in reversing global warming. Currently, she is working with Project Drawdown as a Senior Fellow, where she is focusing on Drawdown solutions in the Land Use and Food sectors.

Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior. The Climate Mobilization advocates an all-hands-on-deck, whole society mobilization to protect humanity and the living world from climate catastrophe and helped pioneer the Climate Emergency Declaration campaign, which has led more than 1400 global governments to declare a Climate Emergency. She is also the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, a self-help guide for the climate emergency.

Maria Djupström is the sustainability strategist of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is responsible to coordinate the Chalmers strategic sustainability plans, the reporting and communication regarding the SDGs and the climate strategic plan of Chalmers. Maria has a PhD in Environmental Physics and did research about long distance transported particular air pollutants. She is also a businesswoman, helping companies with their strategic environmental work and ISO 9001 and 14001 management systems. She is also a certified auditor for these standards.

Maria started in Ekobanken 2007 and is the CEO since January 1, 2020. She has been in various positions within the bank and her most recent role was CFO and Head of Sustainability but also Deputy CEO. Maria´s background is in auditing, and also consulting within Sustainable Business Development at PWC. Maria can combine her experience and knowledge in Sustainable Development and Finance in the field of Sustainable Banking.

Markus Terho is a corporate responsibility veteran, with over two decades in the industry. He has held several notable positions, among them, as the global sustainability chief at Nokia. In his current role, at the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, he leads the Sustainable Everyday Life program, that promotes the change towards a more sustainable life in two ways: by inspiring individuals to make sustainable choices in their everyday life and by helping companies develop competitive sustainable products and services.

A Toronto native whose career has come to rest at the confluence of entrepreneurship, education and ecology, Matthew fell in love with Montréal’s bike lanes in 2008. His experience in the fields of fine arts (BFA, York University), education (BEd, University of Ottawa) and commerce (MBA, HEC Montreal) shape his understanding of the challenges and opportunities our society and civilisation face. He is a co-founder and board member of the Montreal Climate Coalition and works as the National Campaign Manager for The Climate Reality Project Canada.

Nigel Topping, CMG, is a renowned figure in climate action, serving as the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP26, where he launched global initiatives like Race To Zero and Race To Resilience. Nigel is now a Senior Advisor to FSD Africa, Global Ambassador to the High-Level Climate Champions, and an External Member of the Advisory Committee for AXA IM. He also advises governments, financial institutions, and private companies on climate strategy, with a focus on mobilizing climate finance and catalyzing exponential change in climate action. Nigel's commitment to sustainability earned him the CMG distinction in 2022 and recognition as a key leader in shaping a sustainable future.

Ole Kristian Sivertsen was appointed President & Group Chief Executive Officer of Desert Control in August 2019 to drive the transition of the present start-up with a scale-up model. Ole advocates solutions to foster the prosperity of life on earth by regenerating soil and green ecosystems, enabling adaptive climate-smart agriculture, and preserving our natural resources.

Fashion RevolutionOrsola de Castro is an internationally recognised opinion leader in sustainable fashion. Her career started as a designer with the pioneering upcycling label From Somewhere, which she launched in 1997 until 2014. Her designer collaborations include collections and 4 best selling capsule collections. In 2006, she co-founded the British Fashion Council initiative Estethica at London Fashion Week, which she curated until 2014. In 2013, with Carry Somers, she founded Fashion Revolution, a global campaign with participation in over 70 countries around the world. Orsola is a regular keynote speaker and mentor, Associate Lecturer at UAL, as well as Central Saint Martins Visiting Fellow.

Owen is a global sustainability writer, analyst and strategist. He is based at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is also a Future Earth Senior Fellow, an Edmund Hillary Fellow (New Zealand) and he is on the faculty of Singularity University. He is interested in big-picture narratives of the past and future of people on Earth (and beyond). He has published in Science and Nature and is a regular contributor to New Scientist. He co-founded the Future Earth Media Lab and Rethink magazine and is on the editorial board of the Anthropocene magazine.

Paul founded CDP in 2000 with an ambition of creating a global economic system that operates within sustainable environmental boundaries and prevents dangerous climate change. His book Beautiful Corporations published in 2000 by Financial Times Prentice Hall and introduced the concept of sustainability product marketing, which is growing in significance as a force in contemporary commerce.

Climate & Capital Media was founded by Peter and senior financial executive. Before founding Climate & Capital Media, he was a Managing Director at BlackRock where he led global communication campaigns to build strong sustainable brands focused on ESG, impact, sustainability, and climate change. Mr. McKillop spent most of his early career as a correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek Magazine in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong where he covered key economic, financial, social, political, issues.

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, who led the development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. Aside from his research helping to guide policy, Rockström consults several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at noteworthy international meetings, such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Supplementary, he chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League.

I am an ecologist who has been studying the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems for many years. I am a former IPCC Lead Author (4th & 5th Assessment reports) and a former Australian Climate Commissioner. I am a founding Councillor with the publicly funded Climate Council of Australia, dedicated to bringing climate change science to the Australian public. Prof. Hughes call on us to read this recent statement on the recent bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/news-room/latest-news/latest-news/coral-bleaching/2020/statement-coral-bleaching-on-the-great-barrier-reef

Nick Robins is Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute. The focus of his work is on how to mobilise finance for climate action in ways that support a just transition, promoting the role of central banks and regulators in achieving sustainable development and investigating how the financial system can support the restoration of nature. Nick is co-founder of Carbon Tracker and also co-founder of Planet Tracker and previously worked at UNEP, HSBC, Henderson Global Investors, the International Institute for Environment and Development, as well as the European Commission.

Author of Debunking Economics (with its third edition currently under development), Steve is one of a dozen economists credited with having warned of the 2007 global financial crisis and is the designer of the Open Source system dynamics program Minsky. He has authored about 70 refereed academic papers critical of mainstream economics and is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security at University College London.

Will Steffen is an Earth System scientist. He is a Councillor on the publicly-funded Climate Council of Australia that delivers independent expert information about climate change. He is also an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University (ANU); Canberra, a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. From 1998 to mid-2004, Steffen was Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm. His research interests span a broad range within Earth System science, with an emphasis on sustainability and climate change.

Rosmarie am a social entrepreneur who mobilise movements and develops solutions to solve the climate crisis. Ms Sundström has a journalist exam and will soon also have an agronomist exam. For over fifteen years she have worked within NGO:s and during that time I have founded Save the Children Youth Sweden, the Co-Grow food movement and the Climate Students movement.

Sam Hunt is the MobilizeU campaign manager, creating a powerful network of university students and campuses around the world committed to standing up for the planet. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and global sustainability from the University of Virginia.

Sherri Goodman is the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security and Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute. She is credited with educating a generation of U.S. military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her famous coinage, “threat multiplier,” to fundamentally reshape the national discourse on the topic. A former first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) and staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Goodman has founded, led, or advised nearly a dozen research organizations on environmental and energy matters, national security, and public policy. She currently serves on the National Academies Advisory Committee to the US Global Change Research Program, and is senior climate advisor to the US Government. She holds degrees from Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Amherst College.

Background as a teacher, outdoor educator and principal. From 2018 advisor and program coordinator in education for sustainable development at the World Wide Fund for Nature in Sweden.

Tamara is a native New Yorker and environmentalist focused on equity, access and community. At 350.org she supports and is accountable to organizers and campaigners on the United States and Canada teams, drives mission critical work and organizational investments to build a multiracial, multi-generational climate movement that is capable of holding our leaders accountable to science and justice.

Yanna is an Environmental Scientist with a specialty in community engagement, resilience, and sustainability planning. She has more than 18 years of experience advising governmental agencies, cities, and firms in California and Germany. Ms. Badet has also managed climate change mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability projects. She led the community engagement for several large infrastructure and resilience-focused projects, reaching millions of people. A trained Climate Reality Leader as of 2018, she currently lives with her family in Germany, trying to support the massive transformation to adapt our communities from there.