Our Leading Women

Behind Women4Climate are some outstanding women, who are committed to fight climate change in the most creative ways. Let’s celebrate their inspiring work.

As the first woman Mayor of Paris, Women4Climate founder Anne Hidalgo has promoted the action of female leaders, and denounced the lack of gender-sensitive climate change policies. She called upon female Mayors to lead the global fight against climate change, and empower a new generation of climate leaders.

Today, the Women4Climate movement is supported by:

Fumiko Hayashi, Mayor of Yokohama
Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid
Karin Wanngård, Mayor of Stockholm
Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona
Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo
Elisabeth Ackermann, Mayor of Basel
Muriel Bowser, Mayor of Washington D.C.
Zandile Gumede, Mayor of Durban
Helen Fernandez, Mayor of Caracas
Clover Moore, Mayor of Sydney
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Mayor of Warsaw
Patricia de Lille, Mayor of Cape Town
Virginia Raggi, Mayor of Rome
G Padmavati, Mayor of Bangalore

To supplement cities’ action, Julie’s Bicycle and C40 have been actively looking for climate champions around the world. We want to celebrate the women who by their convictions, engagements, and actions, have fought climate change in ways that inspire other women to do the same.

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