Goldman Environmental Prize

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The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists.

History

Awardees are named from each of the world's six geographic regions:Template:R Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The award is given by the Goldman Environmental Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, California.<ref name="usatoday" /> The Prize is often referred to as the Green Nobel.Template:R

The Goldman Environmental Prize was created in 1989 by philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman.<ref name=usatoday/>

The winners are selected by an international jury who receive confidential nominations from a worldwide network of environmental organizations and individuals.<ref name="msn-29apr2019">Template:Cite news</ref> Prize winners participate in a 10-day tour of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony and presentation, news conferences, media briefings and meetings with political, public policy, financial and environmental leaders.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The award ceremony features short documentary videos on each winner, narrated by Robert Redford through the year 2020,<ref name="ktvu-30apr2019" /><ref name="bdp-3may2019">Template:Cite news</ref> and Sigourney Weaver beginning in 2021.<ref name="goldman2021-yt">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref>

The 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony marking the 30th anniversary took place on April 29, 2019, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco.<ref name="goldman-ceremony">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ktvu-30apr2019">Template:Cite news</ref> A second award ceremony took place on May 1, 2019, in Washington, D.C.<ref name="goldman-ceremony" /><ref name="ktvu-30apr2019" />

The 2020, 2021, and 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremonies took place online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with pre-recorded videos premiering on November 30, 2020,<ref name="goldman-30nov2020">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="goldman2020-yt">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref> June 15, 2021,<ref name="goldman2021-yt" /><ref name="goldman-15june2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and May 25, 2022, respectively.<ref name="goldman-2022">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="goldman2022-yt">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Live ceremonies resumed in 2023, taking place in San Francisco on April 24 and in Washington, D.C., on April 26.<ref name="gold-10jan2023">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Prize winners

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1997

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Ethnobiologist Paul Alan Cox (left) and village chief Fuiono Senio (right) won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1997 for their conservation efforts at Falealupo in Western Samoa. Their work later led to the founding of Seacology.

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2012

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2014

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2015

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2016

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American congressional leader Nancy Pelosi is often present at the Prize awards ceremony; here in 2016, award winner Zuzana Čaputová would go on to be elected President of Slovakia

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2017

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See also

References

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