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The following articles give a brief idea about the establishment of the award ceremony “Champions of the Earth” which is not the same as the “Defenders of the Earth”. This award helps in the recognition of all the people who have dedicatedly work towards the welfare of the environment, the winner selected every year they might belong to any public sector or even private sector. Follow up on the article to get more information related to this award ceremony.
The Earth Awards
The Champion of the Earth awards was established by the United Nations environment program in the year 2005. It is recognised as an annual awards program for the environmental leaders who come from the public sector and the private sector of the civil body. There are about 5-7 laureates who are Annually selected, each of them is invited to the award giving ceremony so that they can receive their trophies and be a part of the press conference. There are no financial awards given to them by the authorities.
The award program successor to the UNEP’s awards is the Global 500 Roll of Honour. In the year 2017 this program was expanded so that it could include the “young champions of the earth” too. This is a type of ceremony in which they look forward to giving awards to the younger minds, mainly the people who are aged between 18 to 30 and have shown their outstanding potential of creating a very positive environment for the people. This initiative runs under the partnership with the plastics company, Covestro. This Award is presented every year under the program of “United States Environment Program”
Since then, there has been many awards ceremonies and multiple winners in distinct categories some of them between (2022-2016) has been mentioned below:
NAME | AWARD CATEGORY |
(2022)
David Attenborough
(2021)
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
(2020)
Yacouba Sawadogo Pr. Robert D. Bullard Frank Bainimarama (PM of Fiji) Fabian Leendertz Nemonte Nenquimo Mindy Lubber
(2019)
Katherine Hayhoe Ant Forest Costa Rica Fridays of Future Loise Mabulo Patagonia
(2018)
Joan Carling Cochin International Airport Beyond Meat Zhejiang’s Green Rural Revival Programme Impossible Foods Emmanuel Macron Narendra Modi
(2017)
Michelle Bachelet Jeff Orlowski Christopher I’Anson Mobike Paul A. Newman & NASA’s Goddard Space Wang Wenbiao Saihanba Afforestation Community
(2016)
Paul Kagame Afroz Shah Leyla Acaroglu Berta Cáceres José Sarukhán Kermez The Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN) |
(2022)
Lifetime Achievement Award
(2021)
Science and Innovation
(2020)
Inspiration and Action Lifetime achievement award Policy leadership Science and innovation Inspiration and action Entrepreneurial vision
(2019)
Science and innovation Inspiration and action Policy Leadership Inspiration and action Environmental Conservation Entrepreneurial vision
(2018)
Lifetime achievement award Entrepreneurial vision Science and innovation Inspiration and action Science and innovation Policy leadership Policy leadership
(2017)
Policy leadership Inspiration and action General champion Entrepreneurial vision Science and innovation Lifetime achievement award inspiration and action
(2016) Policy leadership Inspiration and action Science and innovation Inspiration and action Lifetime achievement award Entrepreneurial Vision |
Conclusion
As it has been mentioned above, this award of the Champions of the earth was established in the year 2005 by the United Nations under the United Nations environment program. This was started so that they could easily recognise all the people who have contributed their important and precious time for the welfare of the society and the environment everybody lives in. This award is considered as the successor of the Global 500 Roll of Honour, which is also a program under the United Nations. The FAQs section tries to address the most probable queries that might arise. The FAQs section provides additional information which will aid a better understanding of the topic.
