Global 500 Roll of Honour

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1987 to recognize the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world.

"The winners of UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour are members of a broad and growing environmental movement that is flourishing around the world. They have taken the path that most of us hesitate to take for want of time or caring. In honouring the Global 500 laureates, UNEP hopes that others will be inspired by their extraordinary deeds." Klaus Toepfer[1] - UNEP's Executive Director 2001

The last Global 500 Roll of Honour awards were made in 2003. A successor system of UNEP awards called Champions of the Earth started in 2005.

Awardees

Since the inception of the award in 1987, over 719 individuals and organizations, in both the adult and youth categories, have been honoured with the Global 500 award. Among prominent winners are:

• Anil Agarwal, the prominent environmentalist from India.[2]
• Sir David Attenborough, producer of environmental television programmes.[3]
• Idelisa Bonnelly, 1987 Dominican Republic marine biologist who created the first Humpback Whale Sanctuary.[4]
• Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway.[5]
• Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States. He later won the Nobel Peace prize.[6][7]
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French marine explorer.[8]
• Jane Goodall of the United Kingdom whose research on wild chimpanzees and olive baboons provided insight into the lives of non-human primates[9]
• Gabriel Lewis-Charles, the prominent environmentalist from St Lucia.[9]
• Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement,[10] a Kenyan grassroots environmental organisation. She later won the Nobel Peace prize.
• Harada Masazumi, Japanese medical researcher heavily involved in the study of Minamata disease.[11]
• Francisco "Chico" Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper who was murdered during his fight to save the Amazon rainforest.[12]
• George Monbiot, British journalist and researcher.[13]
• Stephen O. Andersen, prominent US environmentalist, for efforts on stratospheric ozone protection[14]
• Nikita Moiseyev a prominent Russian scientist, leading expert on consequences of nuclear war - "nuclear winter".[15]
• Ken Saro-Wiwa, the environmental and human rights activist from Nigeria who was executed for leading the resistance of the Ogoni People against the pollution of their Delta homeland.[16]
• Andrew Simmons, environmental activist and educator[17]
• Severn Suzuki, environmental activist[18]
• Lily Venizelos, Greek conservationist, founder and president of the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles (MEDASSET)[19]

Prominent Laureates

Name	Year	Category Adult/Youth	Organization/ Individual	Country
Robert Redford[20]	1987	Adult	Individual	USA
National Geographic Society[21][10]	1987	Adult	Organization	USA
Soichiro Honda[22]	1987	Adult	Individual (Deceased)	Japan
Green Belt Movement,[23] Womenaid International	1987	Adult	Organization	United Kingdom
Greenpeace International[21]	1988	Adult	Organization	Netherlands
Jimmy Carter[6]	1988	Adult	Individual	USA
Calestous Juma[24]	1993	Adult	Individual	USA
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh[25]	1994	Adult	Individual	United Kingdom
Paul Josef Crutzen[1]	1996	Adult	Individual	Germany
BBC World Service Education Department[26]	1997	Adult	Organization	United Kingdom
Jane Goodall[9]	1997	Adult	Individual	India / USA
The Nation (Thailand)[27]	1997	Adult	Organization	Thailand
Sylvia Earle[28]	1998	Adult	Individual	USA
Greening Australia[29]	1998	Adult	Organization	Australia
Feodor Konyukhov	1998	Adult	Individual	Russia
Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov[30]	1998	Adult	Individual	Russia
Don Merton[31]	1998	Adult	Individual (Deceased)	New Zealand
Verna Simpson[32]	1999	Adult	Individual	Australia
Toyota Motor Club[21]	1999	Adult	Organization	Japan
C. P. Krishnan Nair[33]	1999	Adult	Individual	India
Fuji Xerox Australia[34]	2000	Adult	Organization	Australia
Conservation Volunteers Australia[35]	2000	Youth	Organization	Australia
Nantawarrina, the first Indigenous Protected Area in the world[36][37]	2000	Adult	Organization	Australia
Laurel Springs School[38]	1990	Adult	Organization	USA
Paul Winter	1987	Adult	Individual	USA
Anil Agarwal[2]	1987	Adult	Individual (Deceased)	India
Daphne Sheldrick[39]	1992	Adult	Individual (Deceased)	United Kingdom
Haller Park[40][41]		Adult	Organization	Mombasa

See also

• Environmental Media Awards
• Global Environmental Citizen Award
• Goldman Environmental Prize
• Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment
• Heroes of the Environment
• Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
• List of environmental awards

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External links

• Website of the Global 500 Laureate Roll of Honour