Environmental award from the Federal Environment Foundation
The German Environment Prize , also the Environment Prize of the Federal Environment Foundation , has been awarded annually since 1993 by the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU). At 500,000 euros , it is the most valuable environmental award in Europe.
The award is given to "dedication and performance that contribute decisively and in an exemplary manner to the protection and preservation of our environment now and in the future".
Selection criteria
The following criteria characterize the main idea of the award:
- The excellent performance should primarily serve as a role model for other people, companies and organizations.
- The performance to be awarded should help to identify environmental problems in good time and to defuse them with the help of suitable preventive and implementation strategies.
- The merits should be so convincing that an imitation effect is achieved. Accordingly, the model character and practical feasibility should be in the foreground.
- Innovative, networked holistic solution approaches are particularly taken into account. In doing so, cooperation-creating services with an interdisciplinary character are given priority.
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Reason for the award |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Foron Hausgeräte GmbH | Development of the world's first CFC- and HFC- free refrigerator |
| Wolfgang Haber | Popularization of nature conservation | |
| 1994 | Paul J. Crutzen and Frank Arnold | Investigations into the formation of the ozone hole |
| Association Ökospeicher and Wulkow municipality | environmentally friendly development in rural areas | |
| Environmental initiatives of the economy in East Westphalia | Implementation of high environmental standards | |
| 1995 | Georg Winter | environmentally oriented corporate management |
| Klaus Günther | environmentally oriented corporate management | |
| 1996 | Maciej Nowicki | Founder of the Polish Environmental Protection Fund |
| Wilkhahn Wilkening & Hahne GmbH & Co. | Role model in environmental controlling | |
| 1997 | Michael Otto | Environmental management system at Otto-Versand |
| Bernhard Ulrich | Material and energy flows in forests | |
| Integral Energietechnik GmbH | Development of a non-toxic refrigerant | |
| 1998 | Working group on climate research at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg | global and regional climate models |
| Georg Salvamoser | Services in photovoltaics | |
| 1999 | Klaus Steilmann | Ecology in textiles and clothing |
| Wilhelm Barthlott | Lotus effect for surfaces | |
| 2000 | Franz Daschner | Environmental and material flow management in hospitals |
| Aloys Wobben | Wind turbine construction | |
| 2001 | Hermann Auernhammer | Working on Precision Farming |
| Franz Ehrnsperger, Neumarkter Lammsbräu | Development of an ecological business concept for breweries | |
| Wolfgang Feist | Development of the passive house concept | |
| 2002 | Peter Lüth | Biological plant protection using microorganisms |
| Klaus Töpfer | International commitment to environmental protection | |
| 2003 | Claus Mattheck | Research performance in the field of bionics, including the visual tree assessment method |
| Hermann Josef Schulte | Research and development of environmentally friendly exhaust technologies for vehicle construction | |
| 2004 | Alfred Heinrich Jung | Development of a new sealing principle for the chemical industry |
| Garabed Antranikian | White biotechnology pioneer | |
| Loki Schmidt | Honorary lifetime achievement | |
| 2005 | Berndt Heydemann | Founder of the human-nature-technology-science future center in Nieklitz |
| Joachim Luther | Use of solar energy | |
| Heinz Sielmann | Honorary lifetime achievement | |
| 2006 | Hans G. Huber | Technology transfer for water treatment in emerging and developing countries |
| Ernst-Detlef Schulze | Exploration of global warming | |
| 2007 | Beate Weber | Commitment to environmental and climate protection |
| Carl H. Schmitt and Jürgen Köhler (both Konvekta AG ) | Development of environmentally friendly refrigerants | |
| Hans Joachim Schellnhuber | Climate impact research | |
| 2008 | Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker | Environmental politicians and advisers, especially the United Nations |
| Holger Zinke | White biotechnology pioneer | |
| 2009 | Petra Bültmann-Steffin and Carsten Bührer | Development of special heaters based on high temperature superconductors |
| Bo Barker Jørgensen | Contribution to the understanding of microbial processes in the sea | |
| Angelika Zahrnt | Decades of commitment to environmental protection | |
| 2010 | Winfried Barkhausen and Edwin Büchter | Development of mobile laser technology |
| Rainer Grießhammer | has advanced environmental problem solutions and anchored the topic of sustainability in people's everyday lives | |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | for his international commitment to environmental protection | |
| 2011 | Joachim Alfred and Joachim Georg Wünning | for a special combustion technology that enables more efficient energy use and significant reductions in emissions worldwide in energy-intensive key technologies ( FLOX process ) |
| Jürgen Schmidt | for the climate-neutral mail order company Memo AG, which contributes to sustainable consumption in the office, school, household and leisure time | |
| 2012 | Günther Cramer | for having built SMA from a small engineering office into a global technology and market leader with more than 5500 employees " by consistently focusing on research and development. " |
| Andreas Bett and Hansjörg Lerchenmüller | that they “set global standards with their pioneering technical developments and personal commitment in photovoltaics and thus significantly advanced them globally” | |
| 2013 | Ursula Sladek | Co-founder of the Schönau electricity works |
| Carmen Hock-Heyl | Founder of Thermo-Hemp | |
| 2014 | Peter Hennicke | Energy efficiency expert |
| Gunther War | Company founder of UNISENSOR sensorsystems | |
| Hubert Weinzierl | Honorary award for lifelong commitment to nature conservation | |
| 2015 | Mojib Latif | Climate and marine researchers |
| Johan Rockström | Director of the Stockholm Resilience Center | |
| Michael Succow | Honorary award for lifelong commitment to nature conservation | |
| 2016 | Bas van Abel | Fair Phone founder, entrepreneur, for the destination, an ethically acceptable smartphone manufacture |
| Angelika Mettke | Scientist ( BTU ), recycling expert, for the use of reusable concrete parts and recycled concrete | |
| Walter Feeß | Entrepreneur (Heinrich Feeß GmbH & Co. KG), recycling expert, for the use of reusable concrete parts and recycled concrete | |
| 2017 | Inge Sielmann, Kai Frobel and Hubert Weiger | Commitment to the first and largest all-German nature conservation project, the Green Belt Germany |
| Bernhard Oswald and Johannes Oswald | Development of a particularly energy-saving electric motor | |
| Tony de Brum | Decisive contribution to the creation of the "High Ambition Coalition" for climate protection (honorary award, posthumous) | |
| 2018 | Antje Boetius | for their scientific achievements in deep sea and polar research |
| Roland Arnold Müller , Manfred van Afferden , Mi-Yong Lee and Wolf-Michael Hirschfeld (all Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research ) | for innovative system solutions for decentralized wastewater treatment | |
| 2019 | Ingrid Kögel-Knabner | for their scientific achievements in soil research |
| Reinhard Schneider (managing partner of Werner & Mertz ) | for the use of recyclates and domestic plants as raw materials | |
| 2020 | Ottmar Edenhofer | for its contribution to CO 2 pricing |
| Annika Trappmann and Hugo Sebastian Trappmann (managing directors of Blechwarenfabrik Limburg ) | for their outstanding commitment to climate protection | |
| Martin Sorg (Entomological Association Krefeld) | Honorary award for the scientific underpinning of massive insect decline in the "Krefeld Study" |
literature
Web links
- German Federal Environment Foundation: German Environment Prize
- Archive of the winners of the German Environment Prize. In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment
Individual evidence
- ↑ Main idea and criteria for the German Environment Prize. In: dbu.de. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016 .
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 1993 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on July 25, 2006) ( Memento of October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 1994 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on July 25, 2006) ( Memento of October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environmental Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 1995 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on July 25, 2006) ( Memento of October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 1996 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on July 25, 2006) ( Memento from October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environmental Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 1997 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on July 25, 2006) ( Memento from October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 1998 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on July 25, 2006) ( Memento of October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 1999 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on July 25, 2006) ( Memento from October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2000 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on July 25, 2006) ( Memento of October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environmental Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2001 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on July 25, 2006) ( Memento of October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2002 (last change by: Mark Probst on September 28, 2006) ( Memento of October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2003 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on July 25, 2006) ( Memento from October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environmental Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2004 (last change by: Mark Probst on September 28, 2006) ( Memento from October 5, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environmental Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2005 (last change by: Christina Nieporte on September 4th, 2006) ( Memento of October 5th, 2006 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2006 ( Memento from May 12, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environmental Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2007 ( Memento from March 17, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2008 - Prize Winners as Pioneers of Sustainable Management: Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker and Holger Zinke ( Memento from July 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. September 30, 2008, accessed October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2009 - German Environment Prize 2009 for “international spearheads” from business, research, nature conservation ( Memento from August 2nd, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. September 16, 2009, accessed October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2010 - Environmental Prize for “Leitfuchs des Öko-Institut” and laser technology pioneers ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. September 13, 2010, accessed October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2011 - Federal President Wulff presents the 19th German Environment Prize ( Memento from July 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. October 25, 2011, accessed October 22, 2016.
- ↑ Franz-Georg Elpers, press office: DBU - The Prize Winners of 2012. Photovoltaic technology from Germany has taken top position worldwide. In: idw-online. Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), September 27, 2012, accessed on August 23, 2018 .
- ↑ DBU - The 2013 Prize Winners - Women Power for Environmental Protection: "Even against massive resistance, visions turned into reality" ( Memento from August 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. August 9, 2013, accessed October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU - The Prize Winners of 2014 - Protection of valuable resources as a central future task in science and practice ( Memento from September 24, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ). In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. September 23, 2014, accessed October 22, 2016.
- ↑ “ Setting the course in New York and Paris to secure the future of people on a stable planet”. In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. September 22, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
- ↑ Creative minds as pioneers for global resource turnaround. In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. October 12, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
- ↑ DBU: Trio of conservationists and technology pioneers receive 25th German Environment Prize In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
- ^ German environmental prize to marine biologist Boetius and Leipzig wastewater experts. In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. August 23, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ↑ German environmental award to soil scientist and cleaning agent entrepreneur. In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. September 13, 2019, accessed September 13, 2019.
- ↑ Bonde: Outstanding commitment to climate protection. In: dbu.de. German Federal Foundation Environment. September 2, 2020, accessed September 3, 2020.