Rachel L. Levine
‘CLIMATE CHANGE IS A PUBLIC-HEALTH CRISIS. EVERY DOLLAR INVESTED IN PREVENTION, PREPARATION, AND RESILIENCE IS A VITAL STEP TOWARD A HEALTHIER FUTURE.’
Levine is Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she oversees the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity and the Office of Environmental Justice, which are aimed at helping the U.S. health sector decarbonize.
MELINDA FRENCH GATES
French Gates co-leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which at the end of 2022 announced it would invest $1.4 billion by 2025 to help farmers in lower-income countries adapt to climate change. As she wrote when introducing a white paper released this summer on reforming global finance to help those most vulnerable to climate impacts, “This is about more than just fairness. It’s about the future—for all of us. Trying to
