Today, TIME reveals the third annual TIME100 Climate list, featuring the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action.
The 2025 TIME100 Climate list includes Pope Leo XIV, King Charles III, actor Samuel L. Jackson, President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde, Governor of California Gavin Newsom, Director-General of the World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Evan Spiegel, musician and philanthropist DJ Alok, founder and chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL) Robin Zeng, founder and senior director of Moms Clean Air Force Dominique Browning, and more.
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The 2025 TIME100 Climate issue includes a worldwide cover, featuring artwork by artist Michael Papadakis. For the cover, Papadakis spent 10 days in Boise, Idaho, capturing sunlight with magnifying glasses to create his design. His process involved mapping the sun’s path, calculating angles, sketching outlines, and planning how light would travel across the surface, before burning the image onto a piece of untreated wood. Read more about the creative process here.
–Explore the complete 2025 TIME100 Climate list: here
–See the cover featuring artwork by artist Michael Papadakis: here
On this year’s list, TIME editors write: “Around the world, decision-makers, executives, researchers, and innovators are working to help unlock the necessary funding and resources needed for successful and equitable climate action…To identify this year’s changemakers, TIME’s editors spent months vetting names from across sectors. We valued measurable, scalable achievements over commitments and announcements. We favored more recent action. The result is our third annual TIME100 Climate list. These 100 people represent the power of individuals to make significant progress in influencing the climate economy.” Read more here.
‘TIME100 IMPACT DINNER’ TO RECOGNIZE LEADERS CREATING CLIMATE ACTION DURING COP30 IN RIO:
TIME will convene the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Creating Climate Action to spotlight an array of leaders—including some of those featured on the 2025 TIME100 Climate list of climate leaders—on November 4 during COP30 in Rio, Brazil.
The event will feature insights from business leaders, policy makers, advocates and more on how we can work together to take meaningful action to preserve our planet and resources. Featured speakers include: oceanographer Sylvia Earle, President of Suriname Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, climate activist Elizabeth Wathuti, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes and more.
The TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Creating Climate Action is presented by official timepiece Rolex.