Call for Nominations: Forbes Sustainability Leaders 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 13, 2025

Nominations at the moment are open for Forbes’ second annual Sustainability Leaders listing, spotlighting 50 of probably the most inspiring leaders throughout the globe who’re catalyzing a sustainable future.

Focused on tangible affect, the listing is a listing of these actively implementing progressive and materials options to the local weather disaster. They are in search of leaders spanning all industries and disciplines together with founders, scientists, researchers, C-Suite executives, activists, storytellers, artists, traders and anybody else boldly difficult the established order to handle the defining challenge of our time. 

Background

The local weather motion immediately is outlined by contradiction: Technologically superior, however politically fractured; globally pressing, however logistically stalled.

In the U.S., landmark environmental insurance policies are being reversed at the same time as local weather-fueled disasters intensify and price the economic system billions. Globally, firms that when led on web-zero are strolling again their ambitions, revising timelines, softening disclosures, and retreating from public pledges. New reporting necessities are being launched and instantly challenged in legislatures and boardrooms. Capital is flowing into local weather options at file ranges, nevertheless it’s not at all times aligned with want, notably within the Global South. Disinformation about sustainability is rising simply as quick as public concern over the surroundings. And whereas AI guarantees breakthroughs, it’s additionally accelerating demand for vitality and infrastructure. We know what should be carried out, however placing options into follow appears harder than ever.

Even so, progress is being made by these prepared to maintain constructing. In its second yr, the Forbes Sustainability Leaders listing will highlight folks turning ambition into scalable motion, constructing options in an financial and political local weather of uncertainty. In this second, they wish to honor leaders with readability of goal and the resolve to behave when circumstances are removed from good.

Eligibility

• Open to founders, policymakers, traders, organizers, artists, scientists, and others driving affect all over the world. Whether you’re constructing know-how, restoring ecosystems, financing adaptation, or rethinking entrenched methods—they need to hear from you.
• For founders and CEOs of for-profit companies, they’re trying for firms with a minimal of $10 million in annual income or at the very least $100 million in funding.

Application

The deadline to submit all nominations for the listing is Friday, June 13, 2025 at 9:00am Eastern Time. Finalists can be requested to supply extra info.

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For extra info, go to Forbes Sustainability Leaders.