WASHINGTON (Diya TV) — K.R. Sridhar, Aparna Shrivastava and Ani Dasgupta have been named to TIME’s 2026 TIME100 Climate list, which recognizes 100 people working to advance climate action. Their work spans energy technology, climate finance and research, and policy implementation.
TIME says it reviewed hundreds of candidates and focused on measurable, sustained climate work from the past year. The list groups honorees across categories including Titans, Leaders, Innovators, Defenders and Catalysts; it does not rank them by impact.
Sridhar, founder and CEO of Bloom Energy, leads a company that builds solid-oxide fuel cells to generate electricity onsite. The systems can run on natural gas, biogas or hydrogen. Their climate impact depends partly on the fuel: natural gas still produces emissions, even when a fuel cell generates power without conventional combustion.
Demand from data centers has brought Bloom’s technology into a fast-growing energy debate. Oracle’s 2026 plan to use Bloom fuel cells at a large data-center campus gave the company’s approach a prominent test. TIME reported that the system would initially run on natural gas. That tradeoff illustrates the challenge facing the sector: onsite power can help meet demand quickly, while the emissions depend on the fuel and the system’s eventual operation.
Shrivastava leads Climate Reserve at the Aspen Global Change Institute. The initiative helps climate experts continue research and technical work when jobs, funding or institutional support disappear. Before joining AGCI, she led the climate office at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. AGCI says she helped scale the agency’s annual climate investments to nearly $4 billion across clean energy, resilient infrastructure, agriculture and the circular economy.
Climate Reserve has funded more than two dozen positions for climate specialists, according to reporting on the initiative. Its work has included helping maintain EJScreen, a pollution-mapping tool, and supporting projects that map sea-level rise in Panama and measure greenhouse-gas emissions in five African countries. Organizers say the network aims to preserve expertise and keep useful projects running; they do not present it as a replacement for government research agencies.
Dasgupta, president and CEO of the World Resources Institute, leads an organization that works in 50 countries on climate, forests, oceans and finance. TIME highlighted WRI’s work with the Latin America Clean Energy Coalition, which is building clean-energy markets for industry in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. In Brazil’s Alagoas state, the coalition is working with the industry federation to expand manufacturers’ access to clean power.
WRI also helped Ethiopia publish its first national strategy for electric transport. The strategy sets a goal for electric vehicles to make up 80% of newly registered vehicles by 2030. The target belongs to Ethiopia’s government; WRI supported the work that produced the strategy. TIME also cited WRI’s role as secretariat for the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya, where participants made $6.4 billion in commitments to ocean conservation and sustainability. Those commitments represent pledged funding, not money already spent.
Together, the three honorees show how climate work can involve building power systems, directing funds and expertise, and helping governments turn targets into programs. The list recognizes their influence; the results will depend on whether projects secure resources, meet their goals and deliver measurable benefits.
