Goal 13: Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Visioneers connected with this goal
- Chief Phil Lane Jr — Chief Phil Lane Jr. Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. is an enrolled member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations and is an internationally recognized leader in human, community, and economic development. During…
- Jon Ramer — Jon Eliot Ramer is an entrepreneur, civic leader, inventor, and musician. He is a co-founder of several collaborative technology companies including ELF Technologies, Inc., whose main solution, Serengeti, connects over…
- Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD — Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD is an internationally known evolution biologist and futurist, speaking on living systems in evolution and cosmology in a wide variety of venues on all five continents. With a post-doctoral degree…
- Dr. Jim Garrison — Jim Garrison, PhD, has had a lifetime of social and political activism beginning in the 1960s with the anti-war, anti-nuclear, citizen diplomacy and environmental movements. He founded Ubiquity University having served…
- Anneloes Smitsman — Dr. Anneloes Smitsman Dr. Anneloes Smitsman (Ph.D., LLM), is a futurist, systems scientist, award-winning pioneer in human development and systems change, and award-winning bestselling author. She is the Founder and CEO…
- Andrew Cameron Bailey — Andrew Cameron Bailey Andrew Cameron Bailey finds inspiration exploring the interface between physics and metaphysics, and keeps a weather eye on the state of human society and its relationship with the delicate planet…
- Tammy Scarlette — Tammy Scarlett is a global systems architect, strategist and futurist, and serves as Executive Director of the global non-profit UNIFY.org. With a graduate degree from Harvard University, she works on global…
- Duane Elgin — Duane Elgin I grew up on a farm in Idaho where I connected with the land, seasons, animals, and ecology of life. When I went off to college, I initially wanted to become a doctor but, after two years of study, I paused…
- Jane Goodall — Dr. Jane Goodall Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, is a world- renowned ethologist and activist inspiring greater understanding and action on behalf of the natural…
- Desmond Berghofer — A Special Tribute to Our Co-Founder 1938 2025 This page is dedicated in honour of Dr. Desmond Berghofer, beloved husband of Dr. Gerri Schwartz and co-founder of the Visioneers International Network. It celebrates his…
- Dr. David Suzuki — Dr. David Suzuki Award-winning Scientist, Environmentalist, and Broadcaster Dr. David Suzuki is a grandfather, broadcaster, scientist, and activist. He has made it his life's work to help humanity understand,…
- David Gershon — David Gershon, co-founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute has been called “the number one expert on social change.” He applies his visionary leadership and social change expertise to designing second order change…
- Sally Ranney — Few individuals embody the spirit of active citizenship and service to the Earth as completely as Sally Ranney. For more than four decades, Sally has dedicated her life to protecting wildlife, preserving biodiversity,…
- Ted Turner — Ted Turner was a visionary entrepreneur, philanthropist, environmental steward, and global citizen whose life and work left a profound and lasting impact on humanity. As the founder of CNN, the world's first 24-hour…
- Dr. Adele Buckley — Promoting peace and security through advocating nuclear disarmament and adoption of climate change technology
- Charlie Siegel — Author and Nature Photographer seeking to make the world a more Love and Light filled place
- Cheeying Ho — Expert in community planning, engagement and sustainability strategy
- Fred Matser — philanthropist, humanitarian and philosopher
- Guy Dauncey — Guy is an ecotopian futurist who works to develop a positive vision of a sustainable future, and to translate that vision into action
- Irena Ateljevic — Seeds of Change
- Jan Krause Greene — Volunteer, lifelong educator, creative Environmental & Peace activist, writer & novelist
- Jean-Paul Close — Ideological father and founder of Sustainocracy
- Lilly Briggs — Personal Achievement Award
- Maureen Jack-LaCroix — Speaker, workshop facilitator and environmental educator, Founding Director of Be The Change Earth Alliance
- Maya Soetoro-Ng, PhD — Co-founder, Ceeds of Peace, Co-founder, Institute for Climate and Peace, Consultant, Author, PhD in Multicultural Education
- Michael Dunn — Environmental scientist, founder of the Gulf Islands Centre for Ecological Learning
- Rex Weyler — Environmental activist, writer and co-founder of Greenpeace, and co-founder of Hollyhock Conference Centre in Canada
- Ricky Kej — Grammy-Award Winning Composer, Billboard #1 Artist (USA), UN "Global Humanitarian Artist" Awardee, UNCCD "Land Ambassador", UNESCO MGIEP "Global Ambassador for Kindness", UNICEF "Celebrity Supporter", Adj. Professor NIAS (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
- Roland Montpellier — Co-Founder and Editor at Below2°C.Org. Climate Leader, blogger and climate influencer.
- Ruwanthi Mignonne Halwala — Executive Director, Global Sustainability Education at IHTEC, a member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, the Institute of Environmental Professionals of Sri Lanka, and a member of Carbon Removal Working Group
- Let's Talk Trash - Powell River — Community-based organization promoting trash education in Powell River
- Ta’Kaiya Blaney — Actor, singer-songwriter and Native Children’s Survival Youth Ambassador from Tia A’min Nation, Turtle Island in Canada.
- Wade Davis — Anthropologist, environmental activist, author, photographer, passionate defender of life’s diversity.