Champions of Earth Award

The Champions of Earth Award is an environmental prize that has been presented by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) since 2005 . This award is the successor to the previous Global 500 Award . This prize does not have any prize money.

Award winners

• 2005
  • Dragon King Jigme Singye Wangchuk and the people of Bhutan
  • Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (posthumous)
  • President Thabo Mbeki and the people of South Africa
  • His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew I.
  • Sheila Watt-Cloutier
  • Julia Carabias Lillo
  • Zhou Qiang

• 2006
  • Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín
  • Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
  • Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
  • Masoumeh Ebtekar
  • Mohamed El-Ashry
  • Tommy Koh Thong Bee
  • Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

• 2007
  • Cherif Rahmani
  • Elisea 'Bebet' Gillera Gozun
  • Viveka bean
  • Marina Silva
  • Al Gore
  • Hassan ibn Talal
  • Jacques Rogge and the International Olympic Committee (IOC)

• 2008
  • Belgis Osman-Elasha
  • Atiq Rahman
  • Albert II of Monaco
  • Liz Thompson
  • Timothy E. Wirth
  • Abdul-Qader Ba-Jammal
  • Helen Clark

• 2009
  • Erik Solheim
  • Kevin Conrad
  • Janine Benyus
  • Ron Gonen
  • Tulsi Tanti
  • Yann Arthus-Bertrand

• 2010
  • Mohamed Nasheed
  • Taro Takahashi
  • Vinod Khosla
  • Mostapha Zaher
  • Zhou Xun
  • Bharrat Jagdeo

• 2011
  • Felipe Calderón
  • Olga Speranskaya
  • Zhang Yue
  • Louis Palmer
  • Angélique Kidjo

• 2012
  • Tsakhia Elbegdorj
  • Sander van der Leeuw
  • Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber
  • Fábio C. Barbosa
  • Bertrand Piccard
  • Samson Parashina

• 2013
  • Brian McClendon
  • Carlo Petrini
  • Izabella Teixeira
  • Jack Dangermond
  • Janez Potočnik
  • Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo
  • Veerabhadran Ramanathan

• 2014
  • Boyan Slat ,
  • Fatima Jibrell , Somalia
  • Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
  • Tommy Remengesau, Jr
  • Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez
  • Robert T. Watson
  • Sylvia Earle
  • US Green Building Council

• 2015
  • Black Mamba APU , a South African poaching special unit
  • Sheikh Hasina
  • National Geographic Society
  • Natura Brasil
  • Paul Polman

• 2016
  • Afroz Shah
  • Berta Cáceres
  • José Sarukhán Kermez
  • Leyla Acaroglu
  • The Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN)
  • Paul Kagame

• 2017
  • Jeff Orlowski
  • Michelle Bachelet
  • Mobike
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Paul A. Newman
  • Saihanba Afforestation Community
  • Wang Wenbiao

• 2018
  • Kochi Airport
  • Emmanuel Macron
  • Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat
  • Joan Carling
  • Narendra Modi
  • Zhejiang

• 2019
  • Katharine Hayhoe
  • Ant Forest
  • Costa Rica
  • Fridays for Future Movement
  • Patagonia

Web links

• www.unep.org - United Nations Environment Program: Champions of the Earth (English)