2012 Champions of the Earth Award

Award Comes in Run Up to Rio+20 and UNEP's 40th Anniversary Celebrations

The 2012 Champions of the Earth - the United Nations' flagship environment award that recognizes outstanding visionaries and leaders in the fields of policy, science, entrepreneurship and civil society action - comes in the run up to Rio+20 or two decades after the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 that established treaties on biodiversity, climate change and land desertification and set the course for contemporary sustainable development. It also comes 40 years after the Stockholm Conference that established the UN Environment Program (UNEP).

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Photo Galleries

The 2011 Champions of the Earth Award in pictures. Jumbo Screens in New York's Times Square featuring
the 2011 UNEP Champions of the Earth laureates

Videos

Watch highlights of the 2011 Champions of the Earth award ceremony.Jumbo Screens in New York's Times Square featuring the 2011 UNEP Champions of the Earth

Quotes

Louis Palmer, Switzerland
Champions of the Earth Laureate, 2011 - Inspiration and Action

“My aim is that every country will send an electric car to join the World Advanced Vehicle Expedition, so we can show that the entire planet wants to change and get away from fossil fuels to renewable energies.”