🔻Kaveh Madani named in TIME magazine’s list of 100 influential climate change figures

🔻Kaveh Madani named in TIME magazine’s list of 100 influential climate change figures

Kaveh Madani, a water and environmental scientist, has been included in TIME magazine’s 2026 list of the world’s 100 most influential figures in the field of climate change.

Kaveh Madani is the director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health at the United Nations University, headquartered in Canada.

In introducing him, TIME referred to his work on global water management and “water bankruptcy.” “Water bankruptcy” is a situation in which communities for a long time consume their sustainable water resources beyond capacity, causing irreversible damage to part of natural reserves such as aquifers and wetlands.

In the “Global Water Bankruptcy” report, which was published this year at the United Nations University in January 2026, Kaveh Madani wrote that in many parts of the world the water crisis is no longer temporary and that a return to prior conditions may not be possible. The report called for governments to shift their approach from managing short-term crises to managing water resources in the long term.

In the list of 100 influential figures in the world in the field of climate change, individuals from politics, science, business, and environmental activism are featured.

This year, Kaveh Madani also received the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize.