PAUL DICKINSON
‘LIKE CIGARETTES, WE SHOULD BAN THE ADVERTISING OF HIGH-CARBON PRODUCTS.’
Dickinson is founder of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a leader in encouraging corporate transparency on climate and environmental impact, whose system is used by more than 20,000 companies. In 2023, the CDP announced it will add plastics to its disclosure framework.
BILL GATES
Gates is the founder of Breakthrough Energy (BE), considered among the most influential early-stage venture-capital funds in the energy and decarbonization space. This August, BE began raising $1 billion for its third venture fund, with the aim of increasing the number of companies it invests in by 40%, bringing it to a total of 140 initiatives across a variety of industries, from energy to agriculture. As Gates told TIME last year, “The innovation pipeline is very exciting. One piece of R&D can benefit millions of
