The '

'' recognises outstanding efforts in scientific research or applications of science that contribute to solving global environmental problems. The prize was created by the Asahi Glass Foundation in 1992, the year of the

Rio Earth Summit The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992. Earth Su ...

, and since then the foundation has awarded the prize to two winners every year. In 2012, twenty of the Blue Planet Prize winners collaborated on
joint paper
that was launched at the

UN Environment Programme The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on th ...

's Governing Council meeting in

Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...

on 20 February.Pearce. F. 2012
Earth Summit is doomed to fail, say leading ecologists
New Scientist website. 10 February 2012.

List of laureates

* 1992 Dr. Syukuro Manabe and the

International Institute for Environment and Development International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...

* 1993 Dr Charles D. Keeling and

IUCN-The World Conservation Union The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natur ...

* 1994 Prof. Dr. Eugen Seibold and Mr. Lester R. Brown * 1995 Mr. Maurice F. Strong and Dr. Bert Bolin * 1996 Dr. Wallace S. Broecker and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation * 1997 Dr. James E. Lovelock and

Conservation International Conservation International (CI) is an American nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. CI's work focuses on science, policy and partnership with businesses, governments and communities. The organ ...

* 1998 Prof. Mikhail I. Budyko and Mr. David R. Brower * 1999 Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich and Prof.

Qu Geping Qu Geping is a Chinese environmental scientist. He was Director of the Chinese State Environmental Protection Agency from 1987 to June 1993. In 1999, he was the winner of the Blue Planet Prize along with Paul R. Ehrlich. In 2001, he was awarded ...

* 2000 Dr. Theo Colborn and Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt * 2001 Lord (Robert) May of Oxford and Dr. Norman Myers * 2002 Professor Harold A. Mooney and Prof. J. Gustave Speth * 2003 Dr. Gene E. Likens / Dr. F. Herbert Bormann and Dr. Vo Quy * 2004 Dr. Susan Solomon and Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland * 2005 Prof. Sir Nicholas Shackleton and Dr. Gordon Hisashi Sato * 2006 Dr. Akira Miyawaki and Dr. Emil Salim * 2007 Professor

Joseph Sax Joseph Lawrence Sax (February 3, 1936 – March 9, 2014) was an environmental law professor, known for developing the public trust doctrine.Douglas Martin"Joseph Sax, Who Pioneered Environmental Law, Dies at 78"(obituary), ''New York Times'', Marc ...

and Dr. Amory B. Lovins * 2008 Dr. Claude Lorius and Professor José Goldemberg * 2009 Professor Hirofumi Uzawa and Lord (Nicholas) Stern of Brentford * 2010 Dr. James Hansen and Dr. Robert Watson * 2011 Dr. Jane Lubchenco and

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* 2012 Professor William E. Rees / Dr. Mathis Wackernagel and Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy * 2013 Dr. Taroh Matsuno and Dr.

Daniel Sperling Daniel Sperling (born March 27, 1951 in Albany, New York, United States) is the American founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis); Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineer ...

* 2014 Prof. Herman Daly and Prof. Daniel H. Janzen /

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) is the national institute for biodiversity and conservation in Costa Rica. Created at the end of the 1980s, and despite having national status, it is a privately run institution that works closely w ...

(INBio) * 2015 Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta FBA FRS and Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs * 2016 Mr.

Pavan Sukhdev Pavan Sukhdev is an Indian environmental economist whose field of studies include green economy and international finance. He was the Special Adviser and Head of UNEP's Green Economy Initiative, a major UN project suite to demonstrate that gree ...

and Prof. Markus Borner * 2017 Prof.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Hans Joachim "John" Schellnhuber (born 7 June 1950) is a German atmospheric physicist, climatologist and founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and former chair of the German Advisory Council on Global C ...

and Prof. Gretchen C. Daily * 2018 Prof. Brian Walker and Prof.

Malin Falkenmark Malin Fredrika Sofia Sundberg-Falkenmark, born 21 November 1925) is a Swedish Hydrology, hydrologist. Falkenmark is best known for her long-standing work and expertise on the sustainable use of water resources to meet human and ecosystem needs. H ...

* 2019 Prof. Eric Lambin and Prof.

Jared Diamond Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books ''The Third Chimpanzee'' (1991); ''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); ...

* 2020 Prof.

David Tilman George David Tilman (born Titman; July 22, 1949), ForMemRS, is an American ecologist. He is Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the University of Minnesota, as well as an instructor in Conservation Biology; Ecology, ...

and Dr. Simon Stuart * 2021 Prof.

Veerabhadran Ramanathan Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan (born 24 November 1944) is Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has contributed to many areas of the a ...

and Prof.

Mohan Munasinghe Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist, engineer and economist with a focus on energy, water resources, sustainable development and climate change. He was the 2021 Blue Planet Prize Laureate, and Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

* 2022 His Majesty

Jigme Singye Wangchuck Jigme Singye Wangchuck ( dz, འཇིགས་མེད་སེང་གེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, ; born 11 November 1955) is a member of the House of Wangchuck who was the king of Bhutan (Druk Gyalpo) from 1972 until his abdicati ...

, the Fourth King of Bhutan and Prof.

Stephen Carpenter Stephen "Steph" Carpenter ( /ˈstɛfən/ ''STEF-ən''; born August 3, 1970) is an American musician, known as the co-founder and a guitarist of the alternative metal band Deftones. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings an ...

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External links

The Asahi Glass Foundation

Blue Planet Prize Laureates Statement: Planetary Prosperity Means Zero Carbon
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Global Footprint Network The Global Footprint Network was founded in 2003 and is an independent think tank originally based in the United States, Belgium and Switzerland. It was established as a charitable not-for-profit organization in each of those three countries. Its ...

site, 31 October 2017 Environmental awards Japanese science and technology awards

List of laureates

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References

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