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">Template:Cite webTemplate: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">Template:Cite 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">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="goldman2020-yt">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> June 15, 2021,<ref name="goldman2021-yt" /><ref name="goldman-15june2021">Template:Cite web</ref> and May 25, 2022, respectively.<ref name="goldman-2022">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="goldman2022-yt">Template:Cite 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">Template:Cite web</ref>
Prize winners
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1990
- Robert Brown (Australia)
- Lois Gibbs (United States)
- Janet Gibson (Belize)
- Harrison Ngau Laing (Malaysia)
- János Vargha (Hungary)
- Michael Werikhe (Kenya)
1991
- Wangari Muta Maathai (Kenya)
- Barnens Regnskog (Eha Kern and Roland Tiensuu) (Sweden)
- Evaristo Nugkuag (Peru)
- Yoichi Kuroda (Japan)
- Samuel LaBudde (United States)
- Cath Wallace (New Zealand)
1992
- Jeton Anjain (Marshall Islands)
- Medha Patkar (India)
- Wadja Egnankou (Ivory Coast)
- Christine Jean (France)
- Colleen McCrory (Canada)
- Carlos Alberto Ricardo (Brazil)
1993
- Margaret Jacobsohn and Garth Owen-Smith (Namibia)
- Juan Mayr (Colombia)
- Dai Qing (China)
- John Sinclair (Australia)
- JoAnn Tall (United States)
- Sviatoslav Zabelin (Russia)
1994
- Matthew Coon Come (Canada)
- Tuenjai Deetes (Thailand)
- Laila Iskander Kamel (Egypt)
- Luis Macas (Ecuador)
- Heffa Schücking (Germany)
- Andrew Simmons (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)
1995
- Aurora Castillo (United States)
- Yul Choi (South Korea)
- Noah Idechong (Palau)
- Emma Must (England)
- Ricardo Navarro (El Salvador)
- Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria)
1996
- Ndyakira Amooti (Uganda)
- Bill Ballantine (New Zealand)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Edwin Bustillos (Mexico)
- M.C. Mehta (India)
- Marina Silva (Brasil)
- Albena Simeonova (Bulgaria)
1997
- Nick Carter (Zambia)
- Loir Botor Dingit (Indonesia)
- Alexander Nikitin (Russia)
- Juan Pablo Orrego (Chile)
- Fuiono Senio and Paul Alan Cox (Western Samoa)
- Terri Swearingen (United States)
1998
- Anna Giordano (Italy)
- Kory Johnson (United States)
- Berito Kuwaru'wa (Colombia)
- Atherton Martin (Commonwealth of Dominica)
- Sven "Bobby" Peek (South Africa)
- Hirofumi Yamashita (Japan)
1999
- Jacqui Katona and Yvonne Margarula (Australia)
- Michal Kravcik (Slovakia)
- Bernard Martin (Canada)
- Samuel Nguiffo (Cameroon)
- Jorge Varela (Honduras)
- Ka Hsaw Wa (Myanmar)
2000
- Oral Ataniyazova (Uzbekistan)
- Elias Diaz Peña and Oscar Rivas (Paraguay)
- Vera Mischenko (Russia)
- Rodolfo Montiel Flores (Mexico)
- Alexander Peal (Liberia)
- Nat Quansah (Madagascar)
2001
- Jane Akre and Steve Wilson (reporter) (United States)
- Yosepha Alomang (Indonesia)
- Giorgos Catsadorakis and Myrsini Malakou (Greece)
- Oscar Olivera (Bolivia)
- Eugène Rutagarama (Rwanda)
- Bruno Van Peteghem (New Caledonia)
2002
- Pisit Charnsnoh (Thailand)
- Sarah James and Jonathon Solomon (United States)
- Fatima Jibrell (Somalia)
- Alexis Massol González (Puerto Rico)
- Norma Kassi (Canada)
- Jean La Rose (Guyana)
- Jadwiga Łopata (Poland)
2003
- Julia Bonds (United States)
- Pedro Arrojo-Agudo (Spain)
- Eileen Kampakuta Brown and Eileen Wani Wingfield (Australia)
- Von Hernandez (Philippines)
- Maria Elena Foronda Farro (Peru)
- Odigha Odigha (Nigeria)
2004
- Rudolf Amenga-Etego (Ghana)
- Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla (India)
- Libia Grueso (Colombia)
- Manana Kochladze (Georgia)
- Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho (East Timor)
- Margie Richard (United States)
2005
- Isidro Baldenegro López (Mexico)
- Kaisha Atakhanova (Kazakhstan)
- Jean-Baptiste Chavannes (Haiti)
- Stephanie Danielle Roth (Romania)
- Corneille Ewango (Congo)
- José Andrés Tamayo Cortez (Honduras)
2006
- Silas Kpanan’ Siakor (Liberia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Yu Xiaogang (China)
- Olya Melen (Ukraine)
- Anne Kajir (Papua New Guinea)
- Craig E. Williams (United States)
- Tarcisio Feitosa da Silva (Brazil)
2007
- Sophia Rabliauskas (Manitoba, Canada)
- Hammerskjoeld Simwinga (Zambia)
- Tsetsgeegiin Mönkhbayar (Mongolia)
- Julio Cusurichi Palacios (Peru)
- Willie Corduff (Ireland)
- Orri Vigfússon (Iceland)
2008
- Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanza (Ecuador)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Jesus Leon Santos (Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Rosa Hilda Ramos (Puerto Rico)
- Feliciano dos Santos (Mozambique)
- Marina Rikhvanova (Russia)
- Ignace Schops from "Hoge Kempen National Park" (Belgium)
2009
- Maria Gunnoe, Bob White, West Virginia (United States)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Marc Ona, Libreville (Gabon)
- Rizwana Hasan, Dhaka (Bangladesh)
- Olga Speranskaya, Moscow (Russia)
- Yuyun Ismawati (Bali, Indonesia)
- Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini (Pikin Slee village and Paramaribo, Suriname)
2010
- Thuli Brilliance Makama (Swaziland)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Tuy Sereivathana (Cambodia)
- Małgorzata Górska (Poland)
- Humberto Ríos Labrada (Cuba)
- Lynn Henning (United States)
- Randall Arauz (Costa Rica)
2011
- Raoul du Toit, (Zimbabwe)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Dmitry Lisitsyn (Russia)
- Ursula Sladek (Germany)
- Prigi Arisandi (Indonesia)
- Hilton Kelley (United States)
- Francisco Pineda (El Salvador)
2012
- Ikal Angelei (Kenya)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Ma Jun (China)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Yevgeniya Chirikova (Russia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Edwin Gariguez (Philippines)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Caroline Cannon (United States)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Sofia Gatica (Argentina)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2013
- Azzam Alwash (Iraq)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Aleta Baun (Indonesia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Jonathan Deal (South Africa)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Rossano Ercolini (Italy)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Nohra Padilla (Colombia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Kimberly Wasserman (United States)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2014
- Desmond D'Sa (South Africa)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Ramesh Agrawal (India)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Suren Gazaryan (Russia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Rudi Putra (Indonesia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Helen Slottje (United States)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Ruth Buendía (Peru)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2015
- Myint Zaw (Myanmar)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Marilyn Baptiste (Canada)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Jean Wiener (Haiti)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Phyllis Omido (Kenya)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Howard Wood (Scotland)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Berta Cáceres (Honduras)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2016
- Máxima Acuña (Peru)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Zuzana Čaputová (Slovakia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera (Puerto Rico)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Edward Loure (Tanzania)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Leng Ouch (Cambodia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Destiny Watford (United States)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2017
- Wendy Bowman (Australia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- mark! Lopez (United States)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Uroš Macerl (Slovenia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Prafulla Samantara (India)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Rodrigo Tot (Guatemala)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2018
- Manny Calonzo (Philippines)
- Francia Márquez (Colombia)
- Nguy Thi Khanh (Vietnam)
- LeeAnne Walters (United States)
- Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid (South Africa)
- Claire Nouvian (France)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2019
- Bayarjargal Agvaantseren (Mongolia)
- Alfred Brownell (Liberia)
- Alberto Curamil (Chile)
- Jacqueline Evans (Cook Islands)
- Linda Garcia (United States)
- Ana Colovic Lesoska (North Macedonia)<ref name="ap-29apr2019">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="fc-29apr2019">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
2020
- Chibeze Ezekiel (Ghana)
- Kristal Ambrose (The Bahamas)
- Leydy Pech (Mexico)
- Lucie Pinson (France)
- Nemonte Nenquimo (Ecuador)
- Paul Sein Twa (Myanmar)<ref name="goldman-30nov2020" /><ref name="guardian-30nov2020">Template:Cite news</ref>
2021
- Gloria Majiga-Kamoto (Malawi)
- Nguyễn Văn Thái (Vietnam)
- Maida Bilal (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Kimiko Hirata (Japan)
- Sharon Lavigne (United States)
- Liz Chicaje Churay (Peru)<ref name="goldman-15june2021" /><ref name="sfchron-15jun2021">Template:Cite news</ref>
2022
- Chima Williams (Nigeria)
- Niwat Roykaew (Thailand)
- Marjan Minnesma (Netherlands)
- Julien Vincent (Australia)
- Nalleli Cobo (United States)
- Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narváez Trujillo (Ecuador)<ref name="goldman-2022" /><ref name="guardian-25may2022">Template:Cite news</ref>
2023
- Zafer Kızılkaya (Turkey)
- Alessandra Korap Munduruku (Brazil)
- Chilekwa Mumba (Zambia)
- Tero Mustonen (Finland)
- Delima Silalahi (Indonesia)
- Diane Wilson (United States)<ref name="gep-2023">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="guard-24apr2023">Template:Cite news</ref>
2024
- Sinegugu Zukulu and Nonhle Mbuthuma (South Africa)
- Alok Shukla (India)
- Teresa Vicente (Spain)
- Murrawah Maroochy Johnson (Australia)
- Andrea Vidaurre (United States)
- Marcel Gomes (Brazil)<ref name="gep-2024">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="guard-29apr2024">Template:Cite news</ref>
2025
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- Besjana Guri and Olsi Nika (Albania)
- Carlos Mallo Molina (Canary Islands)
- Laurene Allen (United States)
- Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari (Peru)<ref name="guard-21apr2025">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="goldman-21apr2025">Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
- Environmental Media Awards
- Global 500 Roll of Honour
- Goldman School of Public Policy
- Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment
- Heroes of the Environment
- Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
- List of environmental awards