Clover Hogan

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Clover Kate Hogan
Hogan speaking at COP26 in Glasgow, 2021
Born (1999-06-15) June 15, 1999
Queensland, Australia
EducationGreen School (Bali) (graduated 2016)
Occupations
  • Climate activist
  • Author
Employer(s)London Climate and Sustainability Commission
Known for
  • Founder of Force of Nature
  • Eco-anxiety research
Awards
Websitecloverhogan.com

Clover Hogan (born 15 June 1999) is an Australian-born climate activist. In 2019, Hogan founded of Force of Nature, a London youth non-profit organisation focused on converting eco-anxiety into climate action. Since 2025, she has served as a commissioner of the London Climate and Sustainability Commission, the independent advisory body to the mayor of London.[1]

Early life and education

Hogan grew up in North Queensland, Australia, where she developed an early connection to the natural world.[2] She has described first learning about climate change at the age of eleven through environmental documentaries, which motivated her to become an activist.[3] She later moved to London, where she has been based since.[2]

In 2015, Hogan "convinc[ed] her family to move to Indonesia" to attend the Green School" in Bali.[4][5]

Hogan postponed university studies to pursue climate activism full-time.[6][7] In October 2025, Hogan enrolled in a BSc psychology degree with the Open University.

Climate activism

RSA chair Sir Loyd Grossman has described Hogan as "an activist who has petitioned for change within boardrooms, at COP negotiations and from the TED stage".[8]

At sixteen, Hogan attended the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris as a student activist, which left her disappointed and afraid that world leaders would not resolve the climate crisis.[9]

In 2020, Hogan spoke at the Athens Democracy Forum held by The New York Times.[10][11] During the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), Hogan spoke on the Destination 2030 panel[12] and served on the Civil Society and Youth Advisory Council.[13] In 2023, she spoke at the Next Gen Summit in Hackney, London, a youth politics conference organised by My Life My Say.[14]

In 2019, Hogan worked with Impossible Foods on national youth strategy. Hogan worked with sustainability consultancy Volans with John Elkington.[15] From 2020 to 2021, Hogan served as a trustee of Global Action Plan UK.[16][17][18] From 2020 to 2023, Hogan served on the advisory board of the National Lottery's Climate Action Fund.[13] In December 2025, she was appointed as a commissioner of the Mayor of London's Climate and Sustainability Commission for a 2025–2028 term.[19]

Force of Nature

In 2019, at the age of nineteen, Hogan founded Force of Nature,[20][21] a youth-led non-profit organisation focused on transforming eco-anxiety into climate action.[3][4][22][7] Speaking to British Vogue, Hogan said: "To keep those [eco-anxiety] from tipping into paralysis, we need to connect those feelings to a real sense of agency".[23] The organisation's founding was precipitated by the 2019–20 2019–20 Australian bushfire season.[5]

Force of Nature delivers programmes to school, corporate, and policy audiences,[24] including the University of Oxford, Unilever, and PepsiCo.[7] At the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), Force of Nature partnered with the Natural History Museum and the UNFCCC Climate Champions to deliver "climate cafés", community spaces for processing ecological anxiety.[25][26][27][28]

From 2019 until 2024, Hogan served as executive director of Force of Nature[16] and ran the organisation's podcast, with guests including Christiana Figueres and Luisa Neubauer.[29] Hogan transitioned to an advisory role.

Eco-anxiety

Hogan's advocacy often centers on eco-anxiety, which she as psychological distress arising from awareness of the climate and ecological crisis. Hogan argues that eco-anxiety is a rational response to the climate emergency rather than a pathology, and that it can be channeled into agency and action.[2][30] In 2021, Force of Nature published a research report, The Rise of Eco-Anxiety,[31] based on responses from over 500 young people in more than 50 countries, documenting the prevalence and effects of youth eco-anxiety.[32] In 2022, Force of Nature partnered with Imperial College London's Grantham Institute and the Wellcome Trust to study how eco-anxiety affects youth mental health and how young people act in response.[33]

Hogan argues that wealthy people and corporations work to undermine pro-climate regulations, and so resolving the climate crisis will require systemic change and confronting concentrations of power, rather than merely technocratic or offsetting solutions.[34]

Awards

References

  1. "LCSC welcomes new Commissioners to drive a greener, more sustainable London". Greater London Authority. 3 December 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  2. Taylor, Matthew; Murray, Jessica (10 February 2020). "'Overwhelming and terrifying': the rise of climate anxiety". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  3. Moreland, Jamie (1 November 2021). "COP26: 'How I turned my eco-anxiety into climate action'". BBC News. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  4. Goldsmith, Alex; Abbasi, Ghazal; Aligh, Radhika; Bou Mansour, Charline (28 October 2021). "Gen Zero: Meet the next generation of climate campaigners". The London Standard. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  5. "Profile: Clover Hogan (class of 2016)". Green Schools, Bali. 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  6. "30 Under 30 (Europe): Social Impact". Forbes. 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2026. 22-year-old climate activist Clover Hogan has channeled her "eco-anxiety" into building an organization that mixes training and workshops for young people, students and educators, an online community, speaking events, and advising companies including PepsiCo and Unilever on how to integrate the climate concerns of Gen Z into how they run their businesses. Revenue comes from a mix of speaking engagements, donations, consulting, and grants, with more than $140,000 in funding in 2021. One thing she doesn't regret: forgoing university in order to found a non-profit at 19.
  7. Logan, Kylie (20 January 2022). "8 up-and-coming Gen Z founders to watch right now". Fortune. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  8. Grossman, Loyd (2025). "Action by design". RSA Journal. Vol. CLXXI, No. 5603 (Issue 4). p. 5. ISSN 0958-0433.
  9. Scaife, Abi (8 March 2023). "Clover Hogan Empowers Young People to Tackle Eco-Anxiety". Smiley Movement. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  10. "Clover Hogan". Athens Democracy Forum. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  11. "'Our Democracies Need to Change'". The New York Times. October 9, 2020. Archived from the original on October 9, 2020. Retrieved May 12, 2026.
  12. "COP26: Destination 2030 with Clover Hogan (Force of Nature)". UNFCCC Climate High-Level Champions. 7 November 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  13. "Rebuilding our planet: Communities taking control of the environmental crisis". National Lottery Community Fund. May 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  14. "Next Gen Conference 2023: Hundreds of young people attend event". BBC News. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  15. "Louder than words: A design workshop to amplify climate action". Women's Forum Community. Women's Forum Global Meeting 2019. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  16. "Personal appointments: Clover Kate Hogan". Companies House. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  17. "Meet our new trustees". Global Action Plan. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  18. Global Action Plan UK (21 January 2022). Clover Hogan talks about the importance of young people being decision makers (Video). Retrieved 15 June 2026 – via YouTube.
  19. "London Climate and Sustainability Commission". London City Hall. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  20. Doherty, Ava (19 November 2025). "Rooted and restless: Eco-anxiety and the inheritance of a collapsing Earth". The Oxford Blue. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  21. Hicks, Robin (12 July 2024). "'The problem is not that young people are eco-anxious: It's that people in positions of power are not'". Eco-Business. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  22. Montague, Martin (28 October 2021). "The invisible impact of climate change". BBC Earth. Global warming. Archived from the original on 10 March 2026. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  23. Chan, Emily (1 November 2021). "At 22, This Young Activist Has Found Ways To Channel Her Eco-Anxiety Into Action". British Vogue. Retrieved 15 June 2026. As Cop26 – the United Nations climate conference – kicks off in Glasgow, many of us are, unsurprisingly, struggling with eco-anxiety right now. Activist Clover Hogan, founder of Force of Nature, says we don't have to feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
  24. Chikhoune, Ryma (2021-06-04). "Meet the 21-year-old Uniting Youths and CEOs to Fight the Climate Crisis". WWD (Women's Wear Daily). Penske Media (Fairchild Publishing). Retrieved 2026-06-15.
  25. Natural History Museum (15 December 2021). Meet climate activists Mitzi Jonelle Tan and Clover Hogan (Video). Our Broken Planet. Retrieved 15 June 2026 – via YouTube.
  26. Mittal, Sidhi (1 November 2023). "Hundreds of climate cafes to launch worldwide with support from Force of Nature". Edie. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  27. Packham, Amy (28 November 2022). "Transform Eco-Anxiety Into Action by Hosting a Climate Café". Smiley News. Smiley Movement. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  28. Owen-Burge, Charlotte (4 November 2022). "We're not going to solve the climate crisis with the same thinking that created it". Climate Champions. UNFCCC Climate High-Level Champions. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  29. Webb, Samuel (3 September 2021). "'Eco-anxious' young people are losing faith in leaders, says artist". The Independent. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  30. "Climate anxiety: How to turn your worries into action". BBC Bitesize. The Regenerators. BBC. 22 October 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  31. "The rise of eco-anxiety: A snapshot of how young people in over 50 countries are responding mentally and emotionally to the climate crisis" (PDF). Force of Nature Education CIC. March 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  32. Phillips, Sofia (22 August 2023). "Anger is the most powerful emotion for driving climate action". Thred. Thred Media. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
  33. Alford, Justine (12 June 2022). "New website helps people process and act on their climate emotions". Institute of Global Health Innovation. Imperial College London. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  34. Keck, Madeleine (15 December 2020). "21-Year-Old Environmentalist Clover Hogan on Turning Frustration Into Constructive Activism". Global Citizen. Defend the Planet. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
  35. "Roll of Honour". Diana Award. 2024. Retrieved 15 June 2026.