Nicole Rycroft wins Climate Breakthrough Award

Nicole Rycroft, founder and executive director of Canada-based environmental non-profit, Canopy, is one of two recipients of this year’s Climate Breakthrough Award. The award is given to extraordinary climate strategists to develop and implement new strategies to confront and mitigate climate crisis. Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa is the other recipient.

 

Nicole Rycroft, founder and executive director of Canada-based environmental non-profit Canopy, is one of two recipients of this year's Climate Breakthrough Award. The award is given to extraordinary climate strategists to develop and implement new strategies to confront and mitigate climate crisis. Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa is the other recipient.#

Over the next three years, both Rycroft and Adow will receive a $3 million grant, as well as tailored support from the Climate Breakthrough Project to bring visionary new strategies from idea to fruition.

 

Nicole Rycroft, founder and executive director of Canada-based environmental non-profit Canopy, is one of two recipients of this year's Climate Breakthrough Award. The award is given to extraordinary climate strategists to develop and implement new strategies to confront and mitigate climate crisis. Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa is the other recipient.#

“I’m incredibly honoured to receive this award from Climate Breakthrough to address the challenges we face in this turn around decade for our planet,” Rycroft said in a press release. “No individual or single company can resolve the planetary crises of climate change and biodiversity loss by themselves. Whole supply chains need to shift and fast. This award puts wind in our sails to forge Next Generation Solutions to save forests and turn the tide on the climate crisis.”

 

Nicole Rycroft, founder and executive director of Canada-based environmental non-profit Canopy, is one of two recipients of this year's Climate Breakthrough Award. The award is given to extraordinary climate strategists to develop and implement new strategies to confront and mitigate climate crisis. Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa is the other recipient.#

Rycroft was born in Sydney, Australia and spent her twenties as an elite-level rower. When she moved to Canada in 1997 she brought that same drive and team work to protecting global forests. Rycroft, with Canopy, has successfully engaged hundreds of the world’s leading fashion, publishing, and consumer brands to transform production chains and spur game-changing innovations to safeguard forests around the world. Historically, Canopy greened the Harry Potter series and has recently transformed the fashion industry’s viscose textile supply chain, with more than 50 per cent of global viscose production now ranked at low risk of originating from Ancient and Endangered Forests.

 

Nicole Rycroft, founder and executive director of Canada-based environmental non-profit Canopy, is one of two recipients of this year's Climate Breakthrough Award. The award is given to extraordinary climate strategists to develop and implement new strategies to confront and mitigate climate crisis. Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa is the other recipient.#

Rycroft plans to use her Climate Breakthrough award to catalyse investment in creating low-carbon, commercially viable fibre alternatives that will rapidly shift paper, packaging, and clothing production away from high carbon forests.

 

Nicole Rycroft, founder and executive director of Canada-based environmental non-profit Canopy, is one of two recipients of this year's Climate Breakthrough Award. The award is given to extraordinary climate strategists to develop and implement new strategies to confront and mitigate climate crisis. Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa is the other recipient.#

“The Climate Breakthrough Project finds exceptional leaders capable of pursuing strategies that would affect entire industries or countries and materially change the lives of millions of people. Adow and Rycroft have both the drive and the rare ability to make change at an immense scale,” Savanna Ferguson, executive director at Climate Breakthrough Project, said. “It is truly an honour to support Adow and Rycroft in building their breakthrough strategies.” 

 

Nicole Rycroft, founder and executive director of Canada-based environmental non-profit Canopy, is one of two recipients of this year's Climate Breakthrough Award. The award is given to extraordinary climate strategists to develop and implement new strategies to confront and mitigate climate crisis. Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa is the other recipient.#

Launched in 2016, the Climate Breakthrough Project has selected eleven outstanding awardees to date, hailing from Australia, China, Canada, Argentina, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Kenya. The awardees represent some of the brightest and most imaginative minds in climate policy, law, finance, forestry, energy, and behaviour change.