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Climate 100

The Independent announces the return of its acclaimed Climate 100 List for 2025

Following on from last year's inaugural Climate 100 List, nominations for its Reader's Choice category are once again open for suggestions of unsung climate heroes from around the world who have made a significant contribution to protecting the environment

<p>Despite more awareness than ever, the climate crisis is worsening and it's never felt more urgent to react to protect areas like the Ecuadorian Amazon Environment</p>

The 2024 Climate 100 List

Climate 100

The Independent Climate 100 List 2024

Our inaugural list of the world’s foremost environmental changemakers is not in order of importance, nor does it compare or rank one climate hero against another

<p> The list includes changemaking activists, scientists, academics, philanthropists, political leaders, business and tech leaders, and fashion entrepreneurs</p>
<p>Wawa Gatheru spoke at the inaugural Climate 100 List event in New York City and stressed the importance of community in a warming world</p>
Climate 100

Activist Wawa Gatheru calls on older generations not to ‘borrow hope’ from Gen Z

<p>The award-winning author John Vaillant speaks at The Independent’s event in New York on Wednesday to honor the inaugural 2024 class of the Climate 100 List </p>
Climate 100

Celebrated author John Vaillant on our new era of megafires: ‘The world changed because we changed it’

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks
Climate 100

Theresa May denounces Trump, Farage and Le Pen over climate denial at The Independent’s Climate 100 event

Far-right leaders in Europe and the US are trying to wreck measures to save the planet, Theresa May warns. They want to ‘stir up a culture war’ to win votes, says the former PM, who criticises Trump for calling climate change ‘a hoax’ – and accuses Nigel Farage of ‘politicising’ the issue.

<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury has said God is green</p>
Climate 100

Archbishop’s plea: ‘Act now before it is too late to save the world’

<p>Livia Firth, founder of EcoAge, the Green Carpet Challenge, and campaigner against fast fashion</p>
Climate 100

Climate 100 List: Livia Firth’s long fight against fast fashion

<p>Climate activist, journalist and author Bill McKibben who has started two major climate organizations, 350.org and Third Act. </p>
Climate 100

Climate 100 List: Bill McKibben, the writer who built global movements

<p>Jonathan Maxwell, the investment banker behind Sustainable Development Capital </p>
Climate 100

Jonathan Maxwell, the banker turning waste energy into billions

<p>Businesswoman Charlot Magayi. The life-changing stoves she’s designed are not only safer to use, but have dramatically reduced <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/pollution">pollution from</a> the simple act of cooking at home.</p>
Climate 100

The Climate 100 List: Charlot Magayi’s daughter almost died. Now, she’s saving families from a common threat

<p>A hopper barge stranded in a sandbank at Brazil’s Solimoes River on Tuesday. The country is experiencing its worst drought since measurements began, with rivers at their lowest levels in decades. </p>
Climate

Worst drought on record is drying up Amazon rivers as wildfires rage

<p>Reusable packaging is not a cure-all to fixing the plastic emissions problem </p>
Climate 100

Why reusable plastics can’t fix the climate crisis

Climate Change News

<p>Nominate your unsung climate hero for our 2025 Climate 100 List</p>
Climate 100

Nominate your unsung climate hero for our 2025 Climate 100 List

<p>The Federal Emergency Management Agency is now requiring that all Americans requesting federal aid do so via an email address</p>
US politics

FEMA to require an email address to request aid after disasters

<p>Dengue fever, which is spread by the Asian tiger mosquito, has been moving steadily northward in Europe</p>
Climate

Deadly tropical virus could reach London due to rising temperatures

<p>Satellite images released by NASA shows Hurricane Erin moving away from the U.S. coast </p>
Americas

Hurricane Erin makes stark trajectory shift after battering Caribbean

<p>Spain Fires</p>
News

Wildfires in Spain are setting an alarming new record, according to EU

<p>A girl sits over the rubble of her damaged home following Friday's flash flooding at a neighbourhood of Pir Baba, an area of Buner district, in Pakistan's northwest</p>
South Asia

In pictures: Death toll rises to 358 after flash floods in Pakistan

<p>Geologists report that the Ventina glacier has already lost 1.7 kilometres (1 mile) in length since the first measuring benchmarks were established in 1895.</p>
Europe

The large glacier now too unstable for scientists to visit

<p>New citizen science water quality testing of Windermere has revealed ‘really concerning’ pollution in England’s largest and most famous lake. </p>
Home News

Warning issued as ‘really concerning’ pollution found in famous lake

<p>Could the simple act of getting dressed in the morning connect us to creativity and ultimately our authentic selves.</p><p></p>
Fashion & Beauty

Dressing with intention: Could fashion become a daily healing ritual?

Fashion & Beauty

Dressing with intention: Could fashion become a daily healing ritual?

<p>Could the simple act of getting dressed in the morning connect us to creativity and ultimately our authentic selves.</p><p></p>
<p>Passers-by watch a demonstration by the World Wildlife Fund against plastic waste during the ongoing plastics treaty negotiations in front of the UN office in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, 13 August, 2025 (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)</p>
News

UN plastic pollution talks end in ‘abject failure’

<p>An image from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Erin, which is predicted to become this season’s first hurricane </p>
Climate

Tropical Storm Erin expected to become season’s first hurricane

<p>A breaching blue whale. Blue whale songs off the coast of California have reportedly dropped by approximately 40 percent as their primary food source - krill – have become more scarce as a result of rising ocean temperatures</p>
News

Blue whales have gone silent, and that has scientists worried

The world saw a record number of hot humid days in 2024, scientists said (Owen Humphreys/PA)
News

Record humidity across the world in 2024 as experts warn of rising health risk

The world saw a record number of hot humid days in 2024, scientists said (Owen Humphreys/PA)
News

Record humidity across the world in 2024 as experts warn of rising health risk

<p>People walk in the rain in Hong Kong</p>
News

Podul brings heavy rain to China after injuring scores in Taiwan

<p>People bathing at the Ounaskoski Beach at the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland</p>
News

Scandinavian heatwave made 10 times more likely by climate crisis

<p>Chile Rapa Nui</p>
Americas

Iconic Easter Island statues could be gone in 60 years, study warns

<p>Switzerland Plastic Pollution Treaty</p>
News

Plastic treaty talks nearing collapse as nations remain deadlocked

<p>Package plastic waste is seen at a dumpsite on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria</p>
Africa

The polluted city struggling to enforce single-use plastic ban

<p>Waves generated by Typhoon Podul break along the coast in Kaohsiung </p>
News

Flight cancellations as Typhoon Podul makes landfall in Taiwan

<p>Hundreds of residents in Alaska’s capital of Juneau have been urged to evacuate over an imminent glacial flood threat</p>
Americas

Alaska residents urged to evacuate over imminent glacial flood threat

<p>This winter will be frigid, wet, and snowy for millions of Americans. In some ways, it will seem ‘old-fashioned,’ according to Farmer’s Almanac editor Sandi Duncan.</p>
Americas

Farmer’s Almanac warns of long and snowy winter for most of US

<p>Waves generated by Typhoon Podul break along the coast in Kaohsiung </p>
News

Flight cancellations as Typhoon Podul makes landfall in Taiwan

<p>Hundreds of residents in Alaska’s capital of Juneau have been urged to evacuate over an imminent glacial flood threat</p>
Americas

Alaska residents urged to evacuate over imminent glacial flood threat

<p>This winter will be frigid, wet, and snowy for millions of Americans. In some ways, it will seem ‘old-fashioned,’ according to Farmer’s Almanac editor Sandi Duncan.</p>
Americas

Farmer’s Almanac warns of long and snowy winter for most of US

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