Climate Leaders Toast to a Hopeful Future at TIME100 Impact Dinner at COP31

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At the TIME100 Impact Dinner at the COP31 climate conference, climate leaders spoke about the clean energy transition and the importance of bringing youth into the climate fight.

At a TIME100 Impact Dinner on Nov. 10 during the annual U.N. climate conference, this year known as COP31, in Antalya, Türkiye, climate leaders spoke of the challenges and gains in the clean energy transition and the importance of bringing youth into the climate fight.

Five honorees spoke about what gives them hope: Global Citizen co-founder Michael Sheldrick, president and CEO of the World Resources Institute Ani Dasgupta, Telemundo journalist Vanessa Hauc, CEO of CrossBoundary Energy and managing partner of CrossBoundary Group Matthew Tilleard,, and climate activist and co-founder and executive director of the Re-Earth Initiative Xiye Bastida.

As co-founder of Global Citizen, Michael Sheldrick, a 2026 TIME100 Climate honoree, has worked to ensure the fight to end poverty remains interconnected with climate action.

He shared the story of two young men training to be solar technicians in Touws River, South Africa, who view the solar boom as an opportunity for boundless ambition. “Luke and Keanu spoke of the determination, the hopes, and aspirations of a billion young people who are going to be entering the job market over the next decade,” he said.

Yet on the other side of the transition, he noted, are people like Bennie, a supervisor at one of South Africa's oldest coal-fired power stations who might soon see the place he has worked at for much of his career sunset. “He said to me, ‘You know, it is sad when eventually we flip the switch and then we turn off this power plant because of the generations of workers it helped support. But most of us understand why that's important. We just hope society will have our backs at the end of the day.’”

That, says Sheldrick, is the goal of Global Citizen—to scale up renewables while ensuring that non one is left behind. At the end of October, the non-profit launched the Perth Declaration, which aims to expand electricity access to over 4 million homes and deliver 3 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity globally.

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