of influential climate leaders in business this year. Around the world, decision makers, executives, researchers, and innovators are working to help unlock the necessary funding and resources needed to drive successful and equitable climate action., who, as president of the World Bank, has woven climate priorities into its mission. Banga entered the job in 2023 with aspirations of making it less risky for the private sector to invest in the energy transition in the Global South.
And innovative approaches to funding the climate fight are playing out in every sector—from inside Microsoft’s C-suite, where the company’s chief sustainability officerhelped spearhead what’s thought to be the largest corporate investment in renewable energy deployment to date, to the island of Grenada, where PresidentTo identify this year’s changemakers, TIME’s editors spent months vetting names from across the economy.