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.

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.

Breene is the president of Carbon Collective Investing. They create climate aligned portfolios that divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in climate solutions for U.S. based individuals and employers. He's a Grist 2024 Top Climate Leader. He lives in Laguna Beach, CA with his wife and two sons, and he likes to read and surf.

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.

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.

Vanessa leads Volvo Cars sustainability ambitions and the continuous evolution of our sustainability strategy supporting our organisation’s mission to give people freedom to move in a personal, sustainable and safe way. Vanessa has more than a decade experience in sustainability leadership. She was previously VP Group Sustainability at Electrolux Group, and prior to that held senior strategy and sustainability roles at Accenture and Scandic Hotels. Vanessa is an established voice on sustainability and a speaker at world events like the UN’s COP.

Peter is cofounder and CEO of TBN Atlantic Rainforest. Growing up in Rio de Janeiro in southeast Brazil is where he first had the opportunity to visit and be captivated by the spectacular Atlantic Forest. The same forests that TBN is now restoring. He has spent the past two decades in financial services focusing on Brazil and Latin America including over a decade living and working in Brazil.

Karol co-leads the climate within IKEA to become climate positive by 2030, by reducing more GHG emissions than the IKEA value chain emits. He is passionate about transforming the business models to be relevant in net-zero carbon society, through integrating decarbonization into cost reduction and building growth by capturing endless opportunities in net-zero economy. His previous positions include working with climate and energy in IKEA supply chain; leading climate and energy in IKEA Poland. Holding M.Sc. from The School for Renewable Energy Science; conducted research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Portugal Program.

In my role as Head of Group Sustainability I develop Telia Company’s sustainability work within both the environmental and social area. Telia is the leading telecommunications and ICT company in the Nordic-Baltic region. The focus of Telia's sustainability work is how digitization can contribute to a sustainable society and how Telia runs its operations in a sustainable manner. The climate transition is urgent and must take place in a safe and inclusive way, meaning that Telia’s focus on digital inclusion, children’s rights, security and privacy as well as responsible sourcing will continue to grow in importance together with the focus on reduced emissions and increased circularity.

Catherine McKenna is Canada's former Minister of Environment and Climate Change as well as Minister of Infrastructure. She is the Principal of Climate and Nature Solutions, an advisory firm focused on scaling action and financing to tackle the climate crisis. She chaired the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero setting out criteria for net zero commitments of business, financial institutions, cities and regions. She is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia University and launched Women Leading on Climate.

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.

I am Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee for Environment and Climate Change. The Committee is currently in the last stages of finalising a report into methane. I am also a Director of Peers for the Planet, a cross-party group of parliamentarians focused on legislative action on climate change and nature, in the House of Lords. I was born in Lahore and brought up in London. My higher education was rooted in science, Chemistry at UCL (2.1 Hons), and a Master's in Environmental Technology (Dist.) from Imperial College, London.

Steven is the project lead of MethaneSAT and, in a separate capacity, Chief Scientist at Environmental Defense Fund, where he initiated and oversaw an unprecedented initiative involving over 150 scientists from more than 40 institutions measuring methane leakage across the U.S. natural gas supply chain. Steven serves as Chief Scientific Officer for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global methane studies, a join effort of UNEP, EDF, DG Energy (European Commission) and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative companies. He was previously on the faculty of Brown University for 16 years. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at the Central European University (CEU). She was elected as Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in July 2023. In the Sixth Assessment cycle she served as Vice-Chair of IPCC’s Working Group III. (Mitigation). She was a Coordinating Lead Author in both the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports (AR4 and AR5) of the IPCC. She is Vice President of the Hungarian Scientific Panel on Climate Change. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA and worked in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Jane Burston is Clean Air Fund’s founding CEO. Before bringing together donors to set up the Clean Air Fund, Jane was Head of Climate and Energy Science in the UK Government, where she was responsible for the UK greenhouse gas inventory and a £45m science programme, and previously led a team of 150 scientists working on Energy and Environment at the National Physical Laboratory. Jane was featured by WIRED as one of their changemakers of tomorrow and was named as a ‘Young Global Leader’ of the World Economic Forum and a social entrepreneur of the year in the UK. She is a regular commentator and conference speaker and also trustee of Parkinson’s UK.

Andrew Prag is the Managing Director for Policy at the We Mean Business Coalition, a global nonprofit coalition working with the world’s most influential businesses to accelerate action on climate change. He has 20 years’ experience on climate change spanning public and private sectors, including 12 years at the OECD and the IEA, and previously in the private sector with Camco Clean Energy and Royal Dutch Shell.

Fadhel Kaboub is President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of economics at Denison University. He has also held a number of research affiliations with the Levy Economics Institute, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the Economic Research Forum, and the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability. Dr. Kaboub is an expert on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), the Green New Deal, and the Job Guarantee. His work focuses on public policies to enhance monetary and economic sovereignty in the Global South, build resilience, and promote equitable and sustainable prosperity. He is a widely published author and his recent work has been presented at many prestigious institutions including the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, Cornell University, Columbia University, Duke University, Sorbonne University, and the National University of Singapore. His academic work has been published in the Journal of Economic Issues, Review of Keynesian Economics, Review of Radical Political Economics, Review of Social Economy, International Journal of Political Economy, Middle East Development Journal, and International Labour Review. Some of his recent media commentaries on MMT, climate change, employment, development, finance, and the Middle East economies have appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Le Monde, The Guardian, La Croix, Al-Jazeera, France 24, Deutsche Welle, The Hill TV, Radio France Internationale, Asharq News, Al Hurra TV, CGTN Africa, and National Public Radio.