UNEP Sasakawa Prize nominations open: Green Solutions to Combat Climate Change
Each year the UNEP Sasakawa Prize honors a deserving laureate in the sustainable development field. Aside from the prestigious title, the winning laureate also receives a cash prize of $200,000 to enable the growth and replication of their groundbreaking initiatives. In a year that will see global leaders meet in Copenhagen for the most important climate conference since 1997, the UNEP Sasakawa Prize will accept nominations within the theme: Green Solutions to Combat Climate Change. More »
2008-09 Laureates
Sunlabob Rural Energy In Lao PDR, a country where most people rely on highly polluting kerosene lamps for light, Sunlabob Rural Energy rents out solar lighting at a lower price than kerosene. The initiative has rented over 1,800 solar-home-systems and 500 solar lanterns to families in 73 different villages across the country.
Practical Action Practical Action has brought clean power to more than 30,000 people in Peru's eastern Andes, an area where millions do not have access to electricity. The initiative makes use of the region's potential for hydroelectricity by installing micro-hydro schemes to provide energy while protecting the planet.
"The winners of the UNEP Sasakawa Prize are of the character that says 'I want to make a difference. I have an idea which everybody tells me is impossible but I'm going to do it anyway.'
They are precisely people of that character, vision and determination."
Just four years after being the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Professor Mario Molina won the UNEP Sasakawa Prize in 1999.
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