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al activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The award is given by the Goldman Environmental Foundation headquartered in

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. It is also called the ''Green Nobel.'' The Goldman Environmental Prize was created in 1989 by philanthropists

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and Rhoda Goldman. , the award amount is $200,000. The winners are selected by an international jury who receive confidential nominations from a worldwide network of environmental organizations and individuals. Prize winners participate in a 10-day tour of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony and presentation, news conferences, media briefings and meetings with political, public policy, financial and environmental leaders. The award ceremony features short documentary videos on each winner, narrated by

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and (beginning in 2021)

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. The 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony marking the 30th anniversary took place on April 29, 2019, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. A second award ceremony took place on May 1, 2019, in Washington, D.C. The 2020, 2021, and 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremonies took place online due to the

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, with pre-recorded videos premiering on November 30, 2020, June 15, 2021, and May 25, 2022, respectively.

Prize winners

1990

* Robert Brown (Australia) *

Lois Gibbs Lois Marie Gibbs (born June 25, 1951) is an American environmental activist. A primary organizer of the Love Canal Homeowners Association, Lois Gibbs brought wide public attention to the environmental crisis in Love Canal. Her actions resulted in ...

(United States) * Janet Gibson (Belize) * Harrison Ngau Laing (Malaysia) * János Vargha (Hungary) *

Michael Werikhe Michael Werikhe (25 May 1956 – 9 August 1999), also known as “the Rhino Man” was a Kenyan conservationist. He became famous through his long fundraising walks in the African Great Lakes region and overseas. He started his campaign afte ...

(Kenya)

1991

* Wangari Muta Maathai (Kenya) * Barnens Regnskog (Eha Kern & Roland Tiensuu) (Sweden) *

Evaristo Nugkuag Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan (born 1950) is a Peruvian activist for environmental and indigenous people causes. He is a member of the Aguaruna people. He organized the ''Alliance of the Indian Peoples of the Peruvian Amazon'' (AIDESEP) and ''Coordina ...

(Peru) *

Yoichi Kuroda is a Japanese environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1991 for his campaign against Japan's irresponsible use of tropical hardwood Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temper ...

(Japan) * Samuel LaBudde (United States) * Cath Wallace (New Zealand)

1992

* Jeton Anjain (Marshall Islands) * Medha Patkar (India) * Wadja Egnankou (Ivory Coast) * Christine Jean (France) * Colleen McCrory (Canada) * Carlos Alberto Ricardo (Brazil)

1993

* Margaret Jacobsohn & Garth Owen-Smith (Namibia) * Juan Mayr (Colombia) *

Dai Qing Fu Xiaoqing (, born 24 August 1941), better known by her pen name Dai Qing (), is a journalist and activist for China-related issues; most significantly against the Three Gorges Dam Project. She left the Chinese Communist Party after the blood ...

(China) * John Sinclair (Australia) *

JoAnn Tall JoAnn Tall is an environmental activist of the Oglala Lakota tribe who has worked to ensure the people have a chance to approve major projects for energy development. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993 for her protests against ...

(United States) *

Sviatoslav Zabelin Sviatoslav Zabelin (born September 23, 1950) is a Russian environmentalist. He is founder of the environmentalist network ''Socio-Ecological Union''. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993. References

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(Russia)

1994

Matthew Coon Come Matthew Coon Come (born April 13, 1956) is a Canadian politician and activist of Cree descent. He was National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations from 2000 to 2003. Born near Mistissini, Quebec, Coon Come was first educated at LaTuque India ...

(Canada) * Tuenjai Deetes (Thailand) * Laila Iskander Kamel (Egypt) *

Luis Macas Luis Macas Ambuludí (born 1951) is a Kichwa politician and intellectual from Saraguro Ecuador. Macas has honorary university degrees in anthropology, linguistics and jurisprudence. He was one of the founders of the CONAIE and of the Pachakutik ...

(Ecuador) * Heffa Schücking (Germany) *

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(St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

1995

* Aurora Castillo (United States) * Yul Choi (South Korea) * Noah Idechong (Palau) * Emma Must (England) * Ricardo Navarro (El Salvador) *

Ken Saro-Wiwa Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerians, Nigerian writer, television producer, and environmental activist. Ken Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homelan ...

(Nigeria)

1996

* Ndyakira Amooti (Uganda) * Bill Ballantine (New Zealand) * Edwin Bustillos (Mexico) * M.C. Mehta (India) *

Marina Silva Maria Osmarina da Silva Vaz de Lima (born 8 February 1958) is a Brazilian politician and environmentalist. She is the founder and former spokeswoman for the Sustainability Network Party (REDE). During her political career, Silva served as a sen ...

(Brasil) * Albena Simeonova (Bulgaria)

1997

* Nick Carter (Zambia) * Loir Botor Dingit (Indonesia) * Alexander Nikitin (Russia) * Juan Pablo Orrego (Chile) *

Fuiono Senio Fuiono Senio (died 17 May 1997) was a chief and environmentalist from Falealupo village on the island of Savai'i in Western Samoa. A logging company offered funds to the Samoan government to build a school for Senio's village if they could log th ...

& Paul Alan Cox (Western Samoa) * Terri Swearingen (United States)

1998

* Anna Giordano (Italy) * Kory Johnson (United States) *

Berito Kuwaru'wa Berito Kuwaru'wa is a member of the Colombian U'wa people. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1998Goldman Environmental PrizeBerito Kuwaru'wa (Retrieved on November 28, 2007) for his role as spokesperson in conflicts between the U ...

(Colombia) * Atherton Martin (Commonwealth of Dominica) * Sven "Bobby" Peek (South Africa) * Hirofumi Yamashita (Japan)

1999

Jacqui Katona Jacqui Katona is a western-educated Aboriginal Australian woman who led the campaign to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory. In 1998 the Mirrar Aboriginal people, together with environmental groups, used peaceful on-site civ ...

Yvonne Margarula Yvonne Margarula is an Aboriginal Australian environmentalist who won the 1998 Friends of the Earth International Environment Award and the 1998 Nuclear-Free Future Award. She also won the 1999 US Goldman Environmental Prize, with Jacqui Katona ...

(Australia) * Michal Kravcik (Slovakia) * Bernard Martin (Canada) * Samuel Nguiffo (Cameroon) * Jorge Varela (Honduras) *

Ka Hsaw Wa Ka Hsaw Wa (born 1970) is a Burmese human rights activist. He is a member of the Karen indigenous group. Along with his wife, environmental and human rights attorney Katie Redford, he is the co-founder and co-director of EarthRights Internationa ...

(Myanmar)

2000

* Oral Ataniyazova (Uzbekistan) * Elias Diaz Peña &

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(Paraguay) * Vera Mischenko (Russia) * Rodolfo Montiel Flores (Mexico) * Alexander Peal (Liberia) *

Nat Quansah Nat Quansah is a botanist from Ghana, and earned a doctorate in philosophy in pteridology from the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He received a master's degree in botany at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He has taught courses on ...

(Madagascar)

2001

Jane Akre Jane Akre is an American journalist best known for the whistleblower lawsuit by herself and her former husband, Steve Wilson, against Fox station WTVT in Tampa, Florida. Akre and Wilson are featured in the 2003 documentary film '' The Corporation ...

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(United States) * Yosepha Alomang (Indonesia) * Giorgos Catsadorakis & Myrsini Malakou (Greece) * Oscar Olivera (Bolivia) * Eugène Rutagarama (Rwanda) *

Bruno Van Peteghem Bruno Van Peteghem (1950s – 24 August 2022, in New Caledonia) was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, for his campaign to place the island's coral reef (among the world's largest and most unusual) on UNESCO's World Heritage List ...

(New Caledonia)

2002

* Pisit Charnsnoh (Thailand) * Sarah James & Jonathon Solomon (United States) * Fatima Jibrell (Somalia) * Alexis Massol González (Puerto Rico) *

Norma Kassi Norma Kassi (born April 10, 1954) is a native Gwich'in from Yukon Territory, Canada, and a former member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly and former chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.Jean La Rose (Guyana) * Jadwiga Łopata (Poland)

2003

* Julia Bonds (United States) * Pedro Arrojo-Agudo (Spain) * Eileen Kampakuta Brown & Eileen Wani Wingfield (Australia) * Von Hernandez (Philippines) * Maria Elena Foronda Farro (Peru) * Odigha Odigha (Nigeria)

2004

* Rudolf Amenga-Etego (Ghana) * Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla (India) * Libia Grueso (Colombia) * Manana Kochladze (Georgia) * Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho (East Timor) * Margie Richard (United States)

2005

* Isidro Baldenegro López (Mexico) * Kaisha Atakhanova (Kazakhstan) *

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(Haiti) * Stephanie Danielle Roth (Romania) * Corneille Ewango (Congo) * José Andrés Tamayo Cortez (Honduras)

2006

* Silas Kpanan’ Siakor (Liberia) * Yu Xiaogang (China) * Olya Melen (Ukraine) * Anne Kajir (Papua New Guinea) * Craig E. Williams (United States) * Tarcisio Feitosa da Silva (Brazil)

2007

* Sophia Rabliauskas (Manitoba, Canada) * Hammerskjoeld Simwinga (Zambia) * Tsetsgeegiin Mönkhbayar (Mongolia) *

Julio Cusurichi Palacios Julio Cusurichi Palacios is a leading Peruvian environmentalist from the Madre de Dios region of Peru. He was one of the recipients of the 2007 Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassr ...

(Peru) * Willie Corduff (Ireland) * Orri Vigfússon (Iceland)

2008

* Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanza (Ecuador) * Jesus Leon Santos (Oaxaca, Mexico) * Rosa Hilda Ramos (Puerto Rico) * Feliciano dos Santos (Mozambique) * Marina Rikhvanova (Russia) * Ignace Schops from "Hoge Kempen National Park" (Belgium)

2009

Maria Gunnoe Maria Gunnoe (born 1968) is an environmentalist who opposes mountaintop removal mining, and is a winner of the Goldman Prize and Wallenberg Medal. Early life Maria was born in Boone County, West Virginia, where she continues to reside. She is a ...

, Bob White, West Virginia (United States) * Marc Ona,

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(Gabon) * Rizwana Hasan,

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(Bangladesh) *

Olga Speranskaya Olga Speranskaya (russian: Ольга Сперанская) is a Russian scientist and environmentalist. She has been the Director of the Chemical Safety Program at the Eco-Accord Center for Environment and Sustainable Development in Moscow sinc ...

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(Russia) * Yuyun Ismawati (Bali, Indonesia) * Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini (Pikin Slee village and Paramaribo, Suriname)

2010

* Thuli Brilliance Makama (Swaziland) * Tuy Sereivathana (Cambodia) * Małgorzata Górska (Poland) * Humberto Ríos Labrada (Cuba) * Lynn Henning (United States) *

Randall Arauz Randall Arauz is an environmentalist working in Costa Rica. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2010 for his efforts on the protection of the sharks and banning of the shark finning Shark finning is the act of removing fins fr ...

(Costa Rica)

2011

* Raoul du Toit, (Zimbabwe) * Dmitry Lisitsyn (Russia) * Ursula Sladek (Germany) * Prigi Arisandi (Indonesia) * Hilton Kelley (United States) * Francisco Pineda (El Salvador)

2012

* Ikal Angelei (Kenya) * Ma Jun (China) * Yevgeniya Chirikova (Russia) * Edwin Gariguez (Philippines) * Caroline Cannon (United States) * Sofia Gatica (Argentina)

2013

* Azzam Alwash (Iraq) * Aleta Baun (Indonesia) * Jonathan Deal (South Africa) * Rossano Ercolini (Italy) * Nohra Padilla (Colombia) * Kimberly Wasserman (United States)

2014

* Desmond D'Sa (South Africa) * Ramesh Agrawal (India) *

Suren Gazaryan Suren Gazaryan (born Suren Vladimirovich Gazaryan, Russian: Сурен Владимирович Газарян) (born 8 July 1974) is a Russian zoologist, dissident, public figure, and former member of The Environmental Watch on North Caucasus ...

(Russia) * Rudi Putra (Indonesia) * Helen Slottje (United States) * Ruth Buendia (Peru)

2015

* Myint Zaw (Myanmar) * Marilyn Baptiste (Canada) * Jean Wiener (Haiti) * Phyllis Omido (Kenya) * Howard Wood (Scotland) * Berta Cáceres (Honduras)

2016

* Máxima Acuña (Peru) *

Zuzana Čaputová Zuzana Čaputová, (; Strapáková; born 21 June 1973) is a Slovak politician, lawyer and environmental activist. She is the fifth president of Slovakia, a position she has held since 15 June 2019. Čaputová is the first woman to hold the presi ...

(Slovakia) * Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera (Puerto Rico) * Edward Loure (Tanzania) * Leng Ouch (Cambodia) * Destiny Watford (United States)

2017

* Wendy Bowman (Australia) * Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) *mark! Lopez (United States) * Uroš Macerl (Slovenia) * Prafulla Samantara (India) * Rodrigo Tot (Guatemala)

2018

* Manny Calonzo (Philippines) * Francia Márquez (Colombia) * Nguy Thi Khanh (Vietnam) * LeeAnne Walters (United States) * Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid (South Africa) * Claire Nouvian (France)

2019

* Bayarjargal Agvaantseren (Mongolia) * Alfred Brownell (Liberia) * Alberto Curamil (Chile) *

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(Cook Islands) * Linda Garcia (United States) * Ana Colovic Lesoska (North Macedonia)

2020

* Chibeze Ezekiel (Ghana) * Kristal Ambrose (The Bahamas) * Leydy Pech (Mexico) * Lucie Pinson (France) *

Nemonte Nenquimo Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous Activism, activist and member of the Huaorani people, Waorani Nation from the Amazon rainforest, Amazonian Region of Ecuador. She is the first female president of the Waorani of ...

(Ecuador) *Paul Sein Twa (Myanmar)

2021

* Gloria Majiga-Kamoto (Malawi) * Thai Van Nguyen (Vietnam) * Maida Bilal (Bosnia and Herzegovina) * Kimiko Hirata (Japan) *

Sharon Lavigne Sharon Lavigne (born May 1950) is an environmental justice activist in Louisiana focused on combating petrochemical complexes in Cancer Alley. She is the 2022 recipient of the Laetare Medal, the highest honor for American Catholics, and a 2021 r ...

(United States) * Liz Chicaje Churay (Peru)

2022

Chima Williams Chima Williams is an environmental activist, an environmental lawyer who fights environmental injustice and held a multinational company like Shell to pay for damages they have caused and inflicted on some communities in the Niger-Delta. He is a ...

(Nigeria) * Niwat Roykaew (Thailand) *

Marjan Minnesma Marjan Minnesma (born 1966) is a Dutch activist. Biography Marjan Minnesma was born and raised in Amsterdam. She holds a degree in international law on climate change. In 2022, she received Goldman Environmental Prize for suing the Dutch gove ...

(Netherlands) * Julien Vincent (Australia) * Nalleli Cobo (United States) *Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narváez Trujillo (Ecuador)

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