Moroccan Climate Leaders Named Among World’s Most Influential Environmentalists

They are the mayor of the city of Chefchaouen, Mohamed Sefiani, very active at the local, national and African levels on environmental and sustainable growth issues.

The second Moroccan personality is Hakima El-Haite, former Secretary of State for the Environment, who had been at the origin, with others, of the success of the UN Climate Conference COP22 organized in Marrakech in November 2016. A little less than a year later, she had been dismissed by King Mohammed VI following the report of the Court of Auditors on the "Al Hoceima Manarat Al Moutawassit" program.

Among the global personalities in this Top 100, we note the presence of the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the young Swede Greta Thunberg and African personalities such as Anthony Nyong, Director of Climate Change and Green Growth at the AfDB, Mithika Mwenda, activist and Secretary General of the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance, Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, Commissioner of the African Union for Rural Economy and Agriculture, or the former Minister of Agriculture of Rwanda Agnès Kalibata.