| 1/20/26

Arctic Basecamp 10th anniversary & Frontiers Planet Prize celebration

Join Arctic Basecamp and Frontiers to mark ten years of sounding the alarm on polar tipping points and their worldwide consequences. Through milestone stories, short updates, and networking, this session celebrates the scientists from the Frontiers Planet Prize and the GAEA awardees from the World Economic Forum, dedicated to preserving Earth's life support systems—and asks what the next decade must deliver. This session was developed in partnership with the Arctic Base Camp and the Frontiers Planet Prize.


Speakers

  • Sadaf Hosseini, Global Head of Partnerships & Philanthropic Engagement, World Economic Forum

  • Gail Whiteman, Inaugural Hoffmann Impact Professor for Accelerating Action on Nature & Climate, University of Exeter Business School

  • Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

  • Jean-Claude Burgelman, Director, Frontiers Planet Prize

  • Justin Mundy, Chairman, Sustainable Sovereign Debt Hub

  • Arunima Malik, Professor, University of Sydney

  • Zahra Kalantari, Professor in Environmental Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology

  • Zia Mehrabi, Director, Better Planet Laboratory

  • Nicole Rycroft, Founder and Executive Director, Canopy

  • Wolfgang Oels, COO, Ecosia

  • Marina Romanello, Executive Director, Lancet Countdown

  • Daniel Erasmus, Founder / Member, ClimateGPT / The Club of Rome