Dr Pawan Munjal, Executive Chairman of Hero MotoCorp, the largest two-wheeler manufacturer in the world, has been named in this year’s TIME100 Climate List. He is the sole Indian entrepreneur and CEO in the CY2025 listing which features the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action.
Dr Munjal is among the 23 Innovators chosen this year for the change that the Hero Vida electric two-wheeler brand is bringing about in India. The recognition comes three years after the scooter was officially launched on October 7, 2022.
The TIME100 Climate list has been announced a few days ahead of COP30 taking place in Belém, Brazil from November 10-21, 2025.
UN Climate Change Conferences (or COPs) take place every year, and are the world’s only multilateral decision-making forum on climate change that brings together almost every country on Earth. The COP is where the world comes together to agree on the actions to address the climate crisis, such as limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, helping vulnerable communities adapt to the effects of climate change, and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
In their commentary on this year’s list, TIME editors wrote: “Around the world, decision-makers, executives, researchers, and innovators are working to help unlock the necessary funding and resources needed for successful and equitable climate action. To identify this year’s changemakers, TIME’s editors spent months vetting names from across sectors. We valued measurable, scalable achievements over commitments and announcements. We favoured more recent action. The result is our third annual TIME100 Climate list. These 100 people represent the power of individuals to make significant progress in influencing the climate economy.”