Champions of the Earth
The Champions of Earth Award is an environmental award, which is awarded by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP ) since 2005. This price is the successor of the former Global 500 Awards. This price is not provided with a cash prize.
Award winners
- 2005 Dragon King Jigme Singye Wangchuk, and the people of Bhutan
- Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ( posthumously )
- President Thabo Mbeki and the people of South Africa
- His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew I.
- Sheila Watt - Cloutier
- Julia Carabias Lillo
- Zhou Qiang and the All- China Youth Federation ( ACYF )
- 2006 Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín
- Women's Environment & Development Organization ( WEDO )
- Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
- Masoumeh Ebtekar
- Mohamed El- Ashry
- Tommy Koh Thong Bee
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
- 2007 Cherif Rahmani
- Elisea ' Tremble ' Gillera Gozun
- Viveka Bohn
- Marina Silva
- Al Gore
- Hassan Ibn Talal
- Jacques Rogge and the International Olympic Committee (IOC )
- 2008 Balgis Osman - Elasha
- Atiq Rahman
- Albert II of Monaco
- Liz Thompson
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Abdul- Qader Ba - Jammal
- Helen Clark
- 2009 Erik Solheim
- Kevin Conrad
- Janine Benyus
- Ron Gonen
- Tulsi Tanti
- Yann Arthus -Bertrand
- 2010 Mohamed Nasheed
- Taro Takahashi
- Vinod Khosla
- Zhou Xun
- Bharrat Jagdeo
- 2011 Felipe Calderón
- Olga Speranskaya
- Zhang Yue
- Louis Palmer
- Angélique Kidjo
- 2012 Tsakhia Elbegdorj
- Sander van der Leeuw
- Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber
- Fábio C. Barbosa
- Bertrand Piccard
- Samson Parashina