The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2018 - Social pillars: Environment

Elizabeth Farrell
Natasha Pszenickies
11 October 2018

Elizabeth Farrell

Environmental activist

Activism isn’t easy, but a sense of style softens the punch. Elizabeth Farrell, a 22-year- old Londoner, is anointed heir to Vivienne Westwood’s eco-punk throne, having collaborated with the fashion maven on her #savethearctic campaign. Farrell, who goes by the moniker Glacier Girl, focuses on using social media savvy to adapt an “eco-friendly” appeal to the iGeneration. Inducted into the V&A’s Records and Rebels exhibition last year.

Suzanne Dhaliwal

Environmental activist

Director and co-founder of the UK Tar Sands Network, a pressure group working on indigenous rights, oil and mining issues in the Arctic, Canada, and Nigeria.

David Attenborough

Presenter, Blue Planet II

Prolific nonagenarian who presented BBC’s seminal oceans documentary Blue Planet II and The Queen’s Green Planet this year.

James Honeyborne

Producer, Blue Planet II

Executive producer behind the most-watched programme of 2017 which galvanised unprecedented political action on plastics after four years’ filming.

Ellen MacArthur

Founder, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Retired round-the-world yachtswoman who successfully advocated for a “circular economy” at the World Economic Forum and European Commission.

Mark Cocker

Naturalist and environmental activist

Prizewinning nature writer whose 2018 book Our Place delivers a timely polemic about our inadequate care for the countryside.

Simon Birkett

Founder of Clean Air in London

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A force of nature who has worked tirelessly to make London’s officials responsible for illegal air pollution levels, founding campaign group Clean Air London, and making a significant donation to legal pressure group ClientEarth in 2009.

Prince of Wales

Campaigner/ writer/ Royal

A veteran both as first in line to the throne and as a campaigner on environmental issues, this year he has launched 12 Global Sustainability Fellowships at Cambridge University to focus on major global problems, linked to UN sustainable development goals.

Mark Campanale

CEO of Carbon Tracker Initiative

Founder of think-tank that presses for investors to consider the financial implications of climate change and has heavily influenced Bank of England’s low-carbon push.

Kate Raworth

Economist

Oxford academic whose business-friendly 2017 book Doughnut Economics advocated meeting the needs of all within the means of the planet.

Lisbet Rausing

Philanthropist

Science historian and co-founder of Arcadia, one of the UK’s largest philanthropic nature foundations, which donated $10 million to Cambridge Conservation Initiative in September.

Charlie Paton

Entrepreneur

Founder of London-based company Seawater Greenhouse whose technology transforms sunshine and seawater into fresh water, for growing crops in the world’s arid regions

Alannah Weston

Deputy chairman of Selfridges

Rid the iconic Oxford Street department store of microbeads in beauty products, plastic straws and single-use carbonated drinks last year. Launched sustainable oceans campaign Project Ocean in 2011.

Carrie Symonds

Bloomberg Oceans lead

Drove anti-plastic Conservative policy as a CCHQ aide, set up The Final Straw Ltd and was snapped up by Bloomberg to lead on their Vibrant Oceans conservation initiative last year.

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