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.

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.

Kehkashan Basu, M.S.M. is an iconic global influencer, environmentalist, champion of women and children’s rights, TEDx speaker, Climate Reality Mentor, author, musician, peace, and sustainability campaigner. She is the recipient of Canada's Meritorious Service Medal and the only Canadian to win the International Children’s Peace Prize. Kehkashan is the Founder-President of global social innovation enterprise Green Hope Foundation, which works at a grassroots level in 26 countries, empowering young people and women, especially those from vulnerable communities, in the sustainable development process and she has spoken at over 300 United Nations and other global fora. She is the youngest Trustee of the Parliament of the World's Religions, Co-Lead of UN Women Generation Equality Forum's Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice, the Co-Chair of the University of Toronto's SDG Student Advisory Council, Council Lead of the Toronto-St. She continues to work tirelessly to amplify the voices of young people, women and girls in decision-making processes.

Erik is a postgraduate geographer with a focus on glaciology and climate development, and holds an exam as a science journalist. During the 1990s, Erik was connected to Tarfala Research Station in the Swedish Lapland mountains doing studies on glacier behaviour on climate and topography. Erik has been Head of media for the Nobel Prizes at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, as well as the Science editor for the largest network of Earth system scientists, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. Since 2016, Erik runs his company Husstainability with Emma Rehnberg Jensen. The business supports the industry achieving sustainable business development within the planetary boundaries. Erik is a part of the Jubilee expedition and just got back from the Arctic.

Dr. Susana Hancock is a transdisciplinary Arctic climate researcher working at the nexus of science and politics surrounding the climate crisis in the polar regions. She recently was one of two scientists selected for the international Jubilee Expedition in which she skied several hundred kilometres across the High Arctic while conducting climate research. She currently leads the science team with Arctic Basecamp, is President for the Association for Polar Early Career Scientists and is an advisor to the B2BI North Atlantic-Arctic Ocean Strategic Framework.

Young climate activist and advisor with vast experience from working in the private sector, civil society and the United Nations for a better, more sustainable world. Believes in the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable society for all. Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Global Economic Governance in Europe and researching the operationalization of carbon markets in the Paris Agreement. In the Stockholm+50 Youth Task Force, he wants to contribute to an inclusive process and meaningful outcome of S+50 that puts an end to the use of fossil fuels and rebalances our relationship to nature.

Awi is a professional award-winning filmmaker based in the Netherlands. Born in the Philippines, Awi has always felt a great need to explore the outdoors. From the deserts in Namibia, mountainous forests in China, the Arctic tundra in Scandinavia, to scorching coastal plains in Yemen, Awi has spent a significant amount of time filming in the wilderness. Awi studied Communication and Multimedia and graduated with honours from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. As part of an Erasmus exchange, he studied film directing and cinematography in England. He finished his Masters’ degree (MA) with cum laude at Örebro University with a major in storytelling in environmental (science) communication.

An engineer by training, Karthik is a Fellow and Director, Research Coordination, at CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water). As Director, he has a bird's eye view of CEEW's ongoing and planned research and ensures cross-team coherence for CEEW's research direction and imperatives. He also dons the hat of an internal adviser across research teams, creates institutional platforms that spur innovation and, in partnership with other senior researchers, continues to strengthen CEEW's foundation for world-class research. He has played a pivotal role in conceptualising and executing some of CEEW's biggest successes and collaborative efforts such as the ACCESS and IRES surveys and the associated studies, the GHG Platform Initiative and the first full fledged office programme office based out of Lucknow. He continues to be an active researcher with the power sector and air pollution work programmes.

Ramón Cruz has over 20 years of experience intersecting the fields of sustainability, environmental policy, urban planning, energy and climate change. He has worked in the public sector as the Deputy Director of the state environmental regulatory agency in Puerto Rico and held senior positions at the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, the Partnership for New York City and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

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.

Former executive, engineer, and product designer at many of the most impactful companies in the tech industry, including Facebook, Google, TaskRabbit, Skype, and Paypal. At Terraformation, Yee is focused on rapidly growing a transformative solution to solve climate change.

Anders Wijkman is a Swedish opinion leader and author. He is honorary chairman of the global think tank Club of Rome and chairman of the Governing Board of Climate-KIC – a major public-private partnership at EU level for the promotion of innovation of a low-carbon society. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP.Since 2015 Anders is a member of the International Resource Panel (IRP) – a UN appointed expert body” to build and share the knowledge needed to improve the use of our resources worldwide”.

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Ms. Andersen has more than 30 years of experience in international development economics, environmental sustainability, strategy and operations.

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.

Anne Therese Gennari is a TEDx speaker, podcaster, workshop host, and educator on climate change. For more than a decade she has been promoting climate optimism to help people cope with climate change and make decisions to create the climate-just future she believes awaits us. She has brought her message to schools, companies, and organizations, including City College of New York, Columbia University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, BMW, and Tetra Pak. Anne Therese hopes The Climate Optimist Handbook will be a gateway for people everywhere to step into the empowered roles we ought to play during our time here on Earth.

Kehkashan Basu, M.S.M. is an iconic global influencer, environmentalist, champion of women and children’s rights, TEDx speaker, Climate Reality Mentor, author, musician, peace, and sustainability campaigner. She is the recipient of Canada's Meritorious Service Medal and the only Canadian to win the International Children’s Peace Prize. Kehkashan is the Founder-President of global social innovation enterprise Green Hope Foundation, which works at a grassroots level in 26 countries, empowering young people and women, especially those from vulnerable communities, in the sustainable development process and she has spoken at over 300 United Nations and other global fora. She is the youngest Trustee of the Parliament of the World's Religions, Co-Lead of UN Women Generation Equality Forum's Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice, the Co-Chair of the University of Toronto's SDG Student Advisory Council, Council Lead of the Toronto-St. She continues to work tirelessly to amplify the voices of young people, women and girls in decision-making processes.

JP Candiotti is a sustainability strategist and innovation partner working on defining strategies and roadmaps for companies, cities, and governments to achieve sustainability. He works on individual and societal learning design and development. He is exploring the web3.0 (Metaverse, NFTs, blockchain) as a tool to create trust, awareness, and engagement in society and capital markets.

Has been managing the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency mission to coordinate activities in Sweden and strengthening communication efforts about World Environment Day. The purpose is, among other things, to create awareness and commitment around World Environment Day and its theme, as well as to make visible activities that take place within Sweden related to World Environment Day.

Anne-Marie Melster is an art curator, writer and advisor focusing on social and environmental issues. As the co-founder and executive director of ARTPORT_making waves she creates interdisciplinary projects which search for environmental and social solutions. She is the pioneering curator focusing on informal education through arts and sciences. She has curated numerous international art exhibitions and projects including film and video in collaboration with renowned institutions, organizations and governments worldwide, also for several UN Climate Change Conferences, always responding to the need to develop them in a sustainable way. Her current WE ARE OCEAN Global Program, endorsed by UNESCO as a project of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), aims at creating youth empowerment and public engagement through contemporary art, sciences and informal education. Her world view is based on ecologically conscious, interdisciplinary and collaborative, as well as intercultural thinking. She studied Art History, Hispanic Philology and Political Sciences in Hamburg, Germany, and has since then lived and worked in several countries worldwide, being fluent in 7 languages.

Richard Blume is a senior sustainability strategist and a long-time representative of The Natural Step. He is a co-founder and chief catalyst of the Sustainability Collaborative, a hub for sustainability practitioners to drive systems change initiatives together using proven methods for sustainability-driven innovation. With 20 years’ experience supporting small and medium enterprises and multinationals to integrate sustainability principles into strategy and operations, Richard is versatile trainer, strategist, project manager and analyst who likes to connect the dots between detail and the big picture. Richard holds a master’s degree in strategic leadership towards sustainability from Sweden’s Blekinge Institute of Technology and a combined bachelor’s degree in engineering (civil and environmental) and international studies from the University of Technology , Sydney, Australia.

Richard Blume is a senior sustainability strategist and a long-time representative of The Natural Step. He is a co-founder and chief catalyst of the Sustainability Collaborative, a hub for sustainability practitioners to drive systems change initiatives together using proven methods for sustainability-driven innovation. With 20 years’ experience supporting small and medium enterprises and multinationals to integrate sustainability principles into strategy and operations, Richard is versatile trainer, strategist, project manager and analyst who likes to connect the dots between detail and the big picture. Richard holds a master’s degree in strategic leadership towards sustainability from Sweden’s Blekinge Institute of Technology and a combined bachelor’s degree in engineering (civil and environmental) and international studies from the University of Technology , Sydney, Australia.

Sachiko Takami is senior trainer, facilitator, interpreter and business coach promoting sustainability leadership and knowledge exchange between her native country of Japan and Sweden, where she is based. She is a long-time associate and former Chief Executive for The Natural Step in Japan and has contributed significantly to the spread of The Natural Steps tools and message throughout Japanese society.

Erica Scott is Director of Regional Development at the Sustainability Collaborative based in Mariehamn, Åland. She is passionate about designing and facilitating processes for sustainable community and regional transformation. With over a decade of experience she is an authority on convening multi-stakeholder collaborations involving governments, municipalities, and businesses. Erica is also a proud and engaged citizen of Åland. She chaired the committee developing the island’s long-term sustainability strategy and served as a strategic advisor to the Åland government on its implementation. As one of the initiators of the Åland political party Hållbart initiativ Erica continues to serve as a policy advisor to their government minister and parliamentary representatives.

Ambassador Lissinger Peitz is recently appointed to lead the work within the Swedish Government offices on preparations from a high-level meeting in the commemoration of the first UN conference on the human environment that took place in Stockholm in 1972. Before that she has been the Lead negotiator for Sweden and EU in the UN Climate Change process and earlier on in the field of chemicals and waste. She was the EU lead negotiator on climate finance in the period after Paris and leading up to Katowice. She has also had roles as COP president for the 7th Conference of the Parties for the Stockholm Convention and for the third ministerial meeting on integrated chemicals policy (ICCM3).

Isabelle Axelsson is a master student at Stockholm University and has been involved in climate and environmental issues for years. She began to school strike for the climate as part of the FridaysForFuture movement last December at the age of 17. Since then, she has been involved in organizing the major global strikes in Stockholm, as well as making contacts internationally with strikers around the world.

Juan Pablo Celis Garcia currently serves as Youth Programme Coordinator of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As part of his role, he manages the Young Champions of the Earth award, the UN’s highest environmental honor for young people. He is a founding member of the Youth Representatives Steering Committee of the UN Department of Global Communications. Previous experiences include Communications Associate for the UN Association of New York and Adviser to the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations. He holds a B.A. in International Studies - Public Policy, Summa Cum Laude, and a Master of international Affairs.

Archana Soreng is an Young Indigenous Women From khadia tribe, India. She is one of the member of UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate. She has experience on research and Advocacy and have been working to document, preserve and promote traditional knowledge and practices of indigenous and local communities. She is also a researcher working with Vasundhara Odisha, an Policy Research and advocacy organizations based in Odisha, India working on Rights of Indigenous People and Local Communities, biodiversity conservation, Sustainable Livelihood and climate action. Archana is also the member of Youngo, official children and youth Constituency of UNFCCC. She is also the board member of Land Rights Now.

Máximo Mazzocco. UNDP Generation 17 Global Ambassador. Founder Eco House Global (30 projects in Global South). Author best-seller "Apuntes de un ambientalista". Coordinator in Youth4Climate. Co-organizer RCOY LAC. Youth international delegate. Declared as an “Outstanding Personality” by the Buenos Aires City and recognized with national and international awards. Environmental & SDG advisor to dozens of politicians and businessmen. Co-founder of several socio-environmental federations with active presence in mainstream social media.

Natalie serves as the Youth Fellow in Finance with the UN Climate Change High Level Champions Team. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Science in Economics from the University of Zimbabwe as the Southern Africa Climate Finance Partnership Masters Scholar, where her research centres on incorporating climate-resilience into Africa's investments in greenhouse gas mitigation. She is a member of the National Taskforce for Carbon Trading for the Government of Zimbabwe. Additionally, she volunteers her time with the Care About Climate NDC Equity Project and the YOUNGO Finance and Markets Working Group which is the child and youth constituency of the UNFCCC.

Beniam joined the UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH) as the Programme Specialist on Civil Society and Youth. He provides advisory, policy and programme support to 36 countries in Asia-Pacific, in the areas of youth empowerment and civil society. He was previously with UNDP, in the Partnerships Bureau in New York. An Eritrean/Swedish national, he has for the past 20 years worked in the field of international development cooperation. In New York, he worked on developing partnerships and policies for UNDP focusing on Civil Society, Youth and Indigenous Peoples. Prior to that, he worked for Government and CSOs in South Africa and Sweden. He started his career at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). He holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from The School of Government, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Gil is co-founder of MySustainOnline.com, and CEO of Natural Logic, Inc. Gil is regarded as one of the 10 most influential sustainability voices in America, and an inaugural member of the Sustainability Hall of Fame.

Tristan is a multi-disciplinary filmmaker, journalist and ecopreneur. His work focuses on improving civic engagement, knowledge transparency and access to science via innovative storytelling and design. Tristan has worked with WikiLeaks, NASA, the United Nations and many other organisations and startups to inspire action and increase positive impact on the planet and all it's living creatures.

Founder of Kebnekaise Classic, BIMM, BAMM, FEM, Åre Extreme Challenge, C2 (City Challenge), Åre War, TEO, Sweden Sky Race 24 and more, as well as the brains behind the Salomon Trail Tour which has contributed to the huge interest for trailrunning in Sweden. Photo: attached

- Google incubator program #WeStart - Climate activist - Board member Swedish climate parliament - Board member The Swedish society for nature conservation Gothenburg

- Head of innovation & sustainability – Ericsson Gothenburg - Director innovation acceleration – Ericsson ONE - Jury nomination committee – WIN WIN Sustainability Award - Co-Founder & COO – Drutt Corporation - Co-Founder & COO – Halebop

Daniel is a passionate communicator with 20 years of experience. He started out as a journalist in Asia and the Middle East and now leads global teams who use communication to influence environmental policy and practice. He is a keen environmentalist, with a particular interest in climate change and its social impact.

Academy Award nominated and Emmy-winning producer Kevin Messick is Adam McKay’s long-time producing partner at McKay’s Hyperobject Industries, which has a first look television deal with HBO/HBO Max and first look movie deal with Apple. His recent feature includes one of Netflix’s most successful films of all time, Don’t Look Up, written and directed by McKay, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Don’t Look Up tells the story of two low-level astronomers who must go on a giant media tour to warn of an approaching comet that will destroy Earth. Messick also produced social thriller FRESH for Searchlight Pictures, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan from director Mimi Cave with a screenplay from Lauryn Kahn.

my-winning and three-time Academy Award nominated composer, pianist, and producer Nicholas Britell is known for his critically acclaimed scores on feature films with Academy Award winning writer-directors Barry Jenkins and Adam McKay. In 2016, Britell was responsible for the world-renowned score for Best Picture winner Moonlight, written and directed by Jenkins. Britell received his first Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Critics’ Choice nominations for Moonlight as well as the 2016 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score (Dramatic Feature). In 2018, Britell wrote the highly acclaimed score for Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk. Britell received his second Academy Award nomination, BAFTA, and Critics’ Choice nominations for Beale Street and was awarded Best Original Score by numerous critics’ groups. Previous film scores include McKay’s The Big Short and Vice, Disney’s box office hit Cruella, and Netflix’s The King, among others.

In Jarvis Smith two worlds collide with dynamic effect. On one hand a proud hippie, mystic, self-confessed tree-hugger and radical eco-warrior, Jarvis is also a thought leader, entrepreneur, speaker and renowned online retail businessman. His work gracing global publications, he now partners with and is advising brands including Natwest, HSBC, Deloitte, Citrix, the Parliament Trust, Octopus Energy, Yeo Valley and Weleda. It was in the middle of 14 years’ Shamanic training that Jarvis’ true awakening happened, during the filming of 2007 Channel 4 reality TV show ‘Dumped’. Shot on location on a Croydon landfill, the experience opened Jarvis’ eyes to the vast devastation human lifestyle waste was having on the planet.

Gabriela Goldman is a Communications Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme. In this role, Gabriela takes a leading part in UNDP’s advocacy, flagship campaigns, events, and media relations. Most recently Gabriela managed the worldwide localization and launch of the #dontchooseextinction campaign. Prior to joining UNDP, Gabriela worked as a writer and TV journalist for 20 years covering conflicts, natural disasters, and human-interest stories in the Middle East, Asia, and the Balkans, for the Associated Press and other international media organizations. She is also a therapist and social meditations leader.