Expert directories

Where to find the people.

10 directories for finding climate experts, with a deliberate Global-South and diversity lens, a category most climate hubs lack. Curated rather than padded: the hub points to each directory where the people actually live.

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Carbon Brief Global South Climate Database

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Carbon Brief

A searchable directory of 1,000+ climate experts across science, policy and energy in Asia, Africa, the Pacific and Latin America.

Cross-cuttingGlobal South
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Climate Social Science Network

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CSSN

A global network and member directory of social scientists researching climate change, the politics of obstruction and just transition.

Cross-cuttingGlobal
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500 Women Scientists, Request a Scientist

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500 Women Scientists

A searchable database to find and amplify women scientists, including climate and environmental experts, by field and location.

Cross-cuttingGlobal
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Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition

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GWNET

An expert and mentoring network advancing women in the sustainable-energy transition, with a strong emerging-markets focus.

EnergyGlobal
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Network of African Women Environmentalists (NAWE)

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UNEP

A UN Environment Programme peer network of African women environmental leaders, active in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration with an Adopt a Landscape campaign and Earth Science Cafes.

Forests & natureCross-cuttingAfrica
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Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA)

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Both ENDS, Mama Cash, FCAM

A consortium founded in 2016, marking 10 years of gender-just climate action in 2026, that funds and connects women-led environmental justice groups across more than 30 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

WaterCross-cuttingClimate financeGlobal South
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Latinas por el Clima

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A collective founded in 2020 of about 40 young feminists from 13 Latin American and Caribbean countries, linking the climate crisis and gender inequality and representing regional youth voices at UN climate and gender forums.

Cross-cuttingAdaptation & resilienceLatin America & Caribbean
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Women in Renewable Energy (WIRE) Network

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RMI

Founded in 2016 by the Clinton Climate Initiative for women energy professionals in island nations and moved to RMI in 2022, with over 570 members from more than 60 countries at the transition.

EnergyLatin America & Caribbean
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Homeward Bound

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An Australia-founded (2016) leadership initiative that supported over 1,000 women and non-binary STEMM leaders worldwide on climate-linked programmes culminating in an Antarctic expedition, before concluding operations in June 2026.

Cross-cuttingGlobal
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Climate Reality Leadership Corps

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The Climate Reality Project

A network founded by Al Gore in 2006 that has run more than 60 trainings, producing Climate Reality Leaders from 192 countries, with roughly half its national branches based in Global-South G20 countries.

Cross-cuttingAdaptation & resilienceGlobal South
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