Former environmental award given by the United Nations Environment Programme
The Global 500 Roll of Honour was an award given from 1987 to 2003 by the
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The award recognized the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world. 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:
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.[17]
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abcSirohi, Madhu Singh; Snigdha, Sah (2008). Green Genius's 101 Questions and Answers: Global Warming. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). pp. 44–45.
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^Ishida, Suda (2007). Heightening Environmental Awareness as a Political Strategy: The Journalistic Construction of an Anti-dam Movement by the Press in Thailand. Edwin Mellen Press. p. 61.
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^"Yuri Luzhkov". Le Point (1346–1354). SARL Politique hebdomadaire: 144. 1998.
^The Environment Encyclopedia and Directory 2001. Psychology Press. 2001. p. 515.
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^United Nations Environment Programme (1998). UNEP Annual Report 1999 : Working for their environment — the Global 500. UNEP/Earthprint. p. 39.
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