Qu Geping is a Chinese environmental scientist. He was Director of the Chinese
State Environmental Protection Agency
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment, formerly the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China, and prior to 2008 known as the State Environmental Protection Administration, is a department of the State Council of t ...
from 1987 to June 1993.
In 1999, he was the winner of the
Blue Planet Prize
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, and ...
along with
Paul R. Ehrlich.
In 2001, he was awarded the
Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal
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, the highest award of the
World Wildlife Fund, calling him the father of environmental protection in China.
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Living people
Environmental scientists
Chinese earth scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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