Here is the list of, UN's flagship environmental award winners
POLICY LEADERSHIP
Ms. Izabella Teixeira, Minister of
Environment, Brazil is recognized for her key
role in reversing deforestation in the Amazon and her role on high-level UN
panels on sustainable development
Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner
for the Environment is recognized for his work
advocating a shift from the current global model of intensive resource
consumption,
ENTREPRENEURIAL VISION
Brian McClendon, co-founder and VP of
Google Earth is recognized for providing a powerful tool
to monitor the state of the environment, allowing researchers to detect
deforestation, classify land cover and estimate forest biomass and carbon and
thus demonstrate the scale of problems and illustrate solutions.
Jack Dangermond, Environmental Systems
Research Institute (ESRI) is recognized for his
commitment to ensuring that international, research, education, and nonprofit
organizations working in the fields of conservation and development have access
to the best geospatial analytical and visualization technology.
SCIENCE AND INNOVATION
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Professor at
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD was
recognized for his pioneering work on black carbon, which included leading a
team that first discovered widespread Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs) and
research into how cutting black carbon can significantly mitigate climate
change India.
INSPIRATION AND ACTION
Carlo Petrini, Founder of the Slow
Food movement is recognized for his visionary work to
improve the efficiency and sustainability of the world's agriculture and food
supply "one bite at a time".
Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo, Director of
Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda is recognized for her work
in the Sierra Gorda region of Central Mexico, which demonstrates how a broad
range of advocacy, public education and income-generation approaches, can
produce support healthy ecosystems and alleviate poverty.
List and details provided by UNEP
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