Bloomberg Celebrates 2025 Green Ones to Watch

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00:00Hi, I'm Aaron Rutkoff. I'm the executive editor of Bloomberg Green.

00:03And I'm Brian Kahn, Bloomberg Green's climate tech editor.

00:06With U.S. climate funding cuts, there's an urgent need for innovative ways to reduce carbon,

00:11speed the energy transition, and adapt to a hotter world.

00:15These leaders are rising to the occasion, and their work demands recognition.

00:20Yasmin Ansari is a congresswoman from Arizona who's worked on the Paris Agreement

00:24and is calling out the fossil fuel industry's influence in Washington.

00:27Sam Balto's non-profit Bike Bus World has launched hundreds of flotillas of cycling students.

00:35And now, he's pushing city leaders and schools to support cycling en masse.

00:40As director of Barbados's Bridgetown Initiative, Pep Barduli is working to reform the global finance system

00:47to enable vulnerable nations to tackle climate change and crushing debt.

00:51Nick Carter's battery company, Acacia Energy, is helping transition Australia from coal

00:56and keep the lights on during bushfires and heat waves.

00:59Andrew Collins is a climate-neutral engineer, using hacks to cut down on beer brewery emissions,

01:05and cheers to that.

01:06As president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Gretchen Goldman is working to stop

01:11the Trump administration's rollback of climate justice policies.

01:13John Hennick is using AI to answer cutting-edge questions in sustainability and life sciences,

01:22while J.P. Morgan's Sarah Kaepnick is a rare voice on Wall Street willing to speak up about

01:26climate change and translate science into the language of profit and loss.

01:31Kakani Katija created a gaming app where players' efforts are helping train AI-enabled robots

01:36to track and identify ocean organisms that are crucial to the carbon cycle.

01:41And Palina Lopez leads an environmental justice, advocacy, and cleanup organization

01:45fighting for the people who live near Seattle's Duwamish River.

01:48Millions of people rely on John Mills' Watch Duty app to track the spread of increasingly fierce

01:53wildfires and follow evacuation orders.

01:56Chandi Reyna is calling on richer nations to spend more to help the global south cut emissions

02:01and cope with the effects of warming.

02:03Congratulations to everyone, especially Gretchen Goldman, John Hennick, and Paulina Lopez,

02:08who are here, along with Bike Bus World Board member Noel Mickleberry, on behalf of San Balto.

02:13You can catch Yasemin and Gretchen on stage tomorrow at our event.