NEW YORK (TIP): The list, which draws attention to the people who are shaping and leading climate action, comes at a critical moment, ahead of the 2023 U.N. Climate Change Conference. Five Indian Americans are named in ‘TIME100 Climate,’ the magazine’s inaugural list of “the world’s most influential leaders driving business to real climate action,” released today (Nov. 16). While “climate leadership is ­embedded across all of our coverage today,” Time believes that “more could be done to draw attention to the people who are shaping and leading climate action.” The list, which the magazine calls “a community,” comes at a critical moment, ahead of the 2023 U.N. Climate Change Conference. Apart from being a community, the list is also “an argument for how we see the future,” Time says, “because we believe progress for the planet will come from the engagement with and leadership with the business world.”

Geeta Aiyer, founder and president of Boston Common Asset Management, Rajiv J. Shah, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, Ajay Banga, who began his five-year term as World Bank Group president in June, Jigar Shah, the director of the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office, and Manoj Sinha, CEO and co-founder of Husk Power Systems (HPS) are the five Indian Americans named to Time Magazine’s Inaugural List of Influential Leaders Driving Business to Real Climate Action.