Craig Cohon
Craig Cohon is a London-based, Canadian businessman, climate activists and founder of walk it back, a global environmental campaign that works to promote international dialogue on carbon dioxide removal. During his business career, he understood the importance of environmental issues, investing in social and environment-driven businesses across the world and in 2000, he was named "A Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum. Campaigning for climate and carbon removal
In 2021, Cohon became the first private citizen to undertake a personal lifetime carbon audit following COP26 and discovered he had caused 8,400 tons of carbon dioxide to be emitted into the atmosphere since his birth. He committed to pay back his carbon debt giving over USD $1 million of his pension to clean carbon removal projects and challenged himself to walk over 4,000 km across Europe to engage in a global discussion about carbon removal with decision-makers, environmental experts and regular citizens he would meet on the way. From 3 January to 5 June 2023, Cohon, who is not a trained athlete, planned to walk 25 to 35 km nearly every day through the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. He is expected to complete his journey in Istanbul on June 5, which marks both World Environment Day and his 60th birthday. The campaign is called walk it back and supports local clean city projects that accelerate carbon removal efforts in energy, transport, industry, agriculture, oceans and buildings. In November 2022, walk it back published the research paper "Getting to Net Negative", which highlights the critical role that cities play in carbon removal. References

External links 

walk it back website
 World Economic Forum profile

Canadian businesspeople
Living people
University of Western Ontario alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Jewish Canadian philanthropists
Canadian climate activists
Canadian expatriates in England
Year of birth missing (living people)