Alberta Premier Rachel Notley — still in Paris for the global climate change summit — has a new gold star for her CV, now that she’s been named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 ‘Leading Global Thinkers’ of 2015.

Notley — the only Canadian born and living in Canada to make the list — is being honoured for her history-making election win and for introducing an ambitious new climate change policy in a province that has for decades relied on the energy sector for a fourth of its GDP.

“I’m afraid that 50 years from now, our great-grandchildren will look at what we did with our resources and they’ll rip up our pictures because they’ll be so angry at how we squandered them,” Notley told the Globe and Mail last April.

“Almost no other jurisdiction in the world has done so little with so much.”

Her government’s climate change policy includes a carbon tax, a planned phase-out of coal-generated electricity and a cap on carbon emissions from oilsands operations. The plan has been endorsed by Suncor and Shell Canada and applauded by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Congratulations @RachelNotley on unveiling Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan. A very positive step in the fight against climate change. — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) November 23, 2015

She is joined on Foreign Policy’s list by Pope Francis, pop singer Akon, the energy minister of the United Arab Emirates, the mayors of Paris and Thimphu, and a host of CEOs, NGOs, journalists and activists from around the world.

The Global Thinkers list is in its seventh year and this year features just as many men as women.