The Global 500 Roll of Honour was an award given from 1987 to 2003 by the
United Nations 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 ...
(UNEP). The award recognized the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world. A successor system of UNEP awards called
Champions of the Earth
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established Champions of the Earth in 2005 as an annual awards programme to recognize outstanding environmental leaders from the public and private sectors, and from civil society.
Award details
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started in 2005.
Awardees
Since the inception of the award in 1987, over 719 individuals and organizations, in both the adult and youth categories, have been honoured with the Global 500 award. Among prominent winners are:
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Anil Agarwal, prominent environmentalist from India.
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David Attenborough, producer of environmental television programmes.
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Idelisa Bonnelly
Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi (10 September 1931 – 3 July 2022) was a Dominican Republic, Dominican marine biologist who is considered the "mother of marine conservation in the Caribbean". She was the founder of the study of biology in the Dom ...
, 1987 Dominican Republic marine biologist who created the first Humpback Whale Sanctuary.
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Brundtland (; born Gro Harlem, 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician ( Arbeiderpartiet), who served three terms as the 29th prime minister of Norway (1981, 1986–89, and 1990–96) and as the director-general of the World Health Organizat ...
, former Prime Minister of Norway.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1 ...
, former President of the United States. He later won the Nobel Peace prize.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (, also , ; 11 June 191025 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful Aqua-Lung, open-circuit SCUBA ( self-contained underwater breathing apparatus). T ...
, French marine explorer.
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Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Seen as the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best kn ...
of the United Kingdom whose research on wild chimpanzees and olive baboons provided insight into the lives of non-human primates
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Annelisa Kilbourn
Annelisa Marcelle Kilbourn (27 June 1967 – 2 November 2002) was a British conservationist, veterinarian and wildlife expert. She worked in Malaysia guarding free-ranging elephants and orangutans and protecting Sumatran rhinoceros and in Madagasc ...
, British conservationist, veterinarian and wildlife expert.
* Gabriel Lewis-Charles, the prominent environmentalist from St Lucia.
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Wangari Maathai
Wangarĩ Muta Maathai (; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental and a political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As a beneficiary of the Kennedy Airlift, she studied in the Un ...
, founder of the Green Belt Movement,
a Kenyan grassroots environmental organisation. She later won the Nobel Peace prize.
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Harada Masazumi, Japanese medical researcher heavily involved in the study of
Minamata disease
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.
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Francisco "Chico" Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper who was murdered during his fight to save the
Amazon rainforest.
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George Monbiot
George Joshua Richard Monbiot ( ; born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism. He writes a regular column for ''The Guardian'' and is the author of a number of books.
Monbiot grew up in Oxfordsh ...
, British journalist and researcher.
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Stephen O. Andersen, prominent US environmentalist, for efforts on stratospheric ozone protection
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Nikita Moiseyev
Nikita Nikolayevich Moiseyev (Russian: Никита Николаевич Моисеев) (23 August 1917 – 29 February 2000) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, full member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and of the Interna ...
, prominent Russian scientist, leading expert on consequences of nuclear war – "
nuclear winter
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".
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Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerians, Nigerian writer, television producer, and environmental activist. Ken Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homelan ...
, the environmental and human rights activist from Nigeria who was executed for leading the resistance of the Ogoni People against the pollution of their Delta homeland.
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Andrew Simmons
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, environmental activist and educator.
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Severn Suzuki
Severn Cullis-Suzuki (born 30 November 1979) is a Canadian environmental activist and writer. She has spoken around the world about environmental issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in mind, and take individual r ...
, environmental activist.
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Lily Venizelos
Lily Venizelos ( gr, Λίλυ Βενιζέλου; born 10 April 1933) is a Greek conservationist.
She founded the international NGO MEDASSET (MEDiterranean Association to Save the SEa Turtles) in 1988 and continues to serve as its president. For ...
, Greek conservationist, founder and president of the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles (MEDASSET).
See also
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Environmental Media Awards
The Environmental Media Awards have been awarded by the Environmental Media Association since 1991 to the best television episode or film with an environmental message.
The Environmental Media Association (EMA) is a non-profit organization cre ...
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Global Environmental Citizen Award
The Global Environmental Citizen Award is an environmental award created by the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment and bestowed annually upon an individual working to restore and protect the global environment.
Aw ...
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Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. ...
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Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment The Grantham Prize was an annual journalism award awarded between September 2005 and October 2012. It was established by Jeremy Grantham and Hannelore Grantham and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting to annually recognize th ...
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Heroes of the Environment Heroes of the Environment was a list of a year's most notable environmentalists chosen and compiled by ''Time'' magazine.
The award was established in 2007.
* Heroes of the Environment (2007).
*Heroes of the Environment (2008).
*Heroes of the Envi ...
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Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an annual award for environmental science, environmental health, and energy. Tyler Laureates receive a $200,000 cash prize and a medallion. The prize is administered by the University of Southern Cal ...
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List of environmental awards
This list of environmental awards is an index to articles about notable environmental awards for activities that lead to the protection of the natural environment. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors ...
References
External links
Website of the Global 500 Laureate Roll of Honour{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528142935/http://www.global500.org/ , date=2020-05-28
Awards established in 1987
Environmental awards
United Nations Environment Programme