Heffa Schücking
The Idea
Organization
Urgewald
Coal kills—especially by polluting urban air, and especially in poorer countries. Yet investors still fund hundreds of dirty energy projects. Interrupting the financial flow is crucial, but first you have to know exactly who's involved.
About Heffa
Heffa Schücking won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 1994 for exposing the link between consumption in industrialized countries and the destruction of tropical forests, triggering a dramatic reduction in Germany's consumption of tropical timber. Since then, Urgewald has monitored the overseas activity of European companies and banks, and she's been at the helm of the Europe's most successful advocacy campaigns, including Allianz and Norwegian Government Persion Fund's divestment from coal.
