Tzeporah Berman BA, MES, LLD (honoris causa) has been designing climate justice and environmental campaigns and advising governments for over 30 years. She is the Co-founder and International Program Director at Stand.earth, the Founder and Chair of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, and serves as a member of the Advisory Group for InfluenceMap.
She has held positions advising the British Columbia government on climate policy and in Alberta she Co-Chaired the Oil Sands Advisory Working Group tasked with making recommendations to implement climate change policy in the oilsands. She holds an honorary doctorate of law from the University of British Columbia, was an adjunct professor at York University, and publishes and speaks widely on fossil fuels and climate change.
In 2019, Tzeporah was awarded the Climate Breakthrough Award of $2 million dollars to develop a bold new global climate strategy and in 2021 she gave a TED Talk presenting the case for a global treaty to phase out fossil fuels. In 2024, she was named among TIME’s 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders and received Climate Scorecard Canada’s Climate Leader Award. In 2025, she was selected as one of five global finalists for the WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award for Trailblazing Leadership, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for environmental leadership.
About the Fossil Fuel Treaty:
The Fossil Fuel Treaty and our network are actively underway to develop a concrete, robust, binding plan to protect people and the planet from the multifaceted threats posed by oil, gas, and coal—from climate change and health crises to security and economic instability. 18 nations have already joined this initiative and are participating in discussions on negotiating a Fossil Fuel Treaty to complement the Paris Agreement.
They are supported by a diverse global network that includes thousands of health professionals, youth activists, social justice advocates, and civil society leaders. This movement also includes Indigenous leaders, businesses, cities and subnational governments, and over a million individuals worldwide.