Clover Hogan

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.

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

Hogan postponed university studies to pursue climate activism full-time.

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.

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

In 2019, Hogan worked with Impossible Foods on national youth strategy. Hogan worked with sustainability consultancy Volans with John Elkington. From 2020 to 2021, Hogan served as a trustee of Global Action Plan UK. From 2020 to 2023, Hogan served on the advisory board of the National Lottery's Climate Action Fund.

Force of Nature In 2019, at the age of nineteen, Hogan founded Force of Nature, a youth-led non-profit organisation focused on transforming eco-anxiety into climate action. The organisation's founding was precipitated by the 2019–20 2019–20 Australian bushfire season. including the University of Oxford, Unilever, and PepsiCo. 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.

From 2019 until 2024, Hogan served as executive director of Force of Nature 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. In 2021, Force of Nature published a research report, The Rise of Eco-Anxiety, based on responses from over 500 young people in more than 50 countries, documenting the prevalence and effects of youth eco-anxiety. 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.

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.

Awards Forbes 30 Under 30 (Europe): Social Impact (2022) Diana Award (2024)