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The Global 500 Roll of Honour was an award given from 1987 to 2003 by the

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(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 The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established Champions of the Earth in 2005 as an annual awards programme to recognize outstanding environmental leaders from the public and private sectors and from civil society. Award details T ...

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, prominent environmentalist from India. * Sir

David Attenborough Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and writer. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, the nine nature d ...

, producer of environmental television programmes. *

Idelisa Bonnelly Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi (10 September 1931 – 3 July 2022) was a Dominican Republic, Dominican marine biologist who is considered the "mother of marine conservation in the Caribbean". She was the founder of the study of biology in the Dom ...

, 1987 Dominican Republic marine biologist who created the first Humpback Whale Sanctuary. *

Gro Harlem Brundtland Gro Brundtland (; née Harlem, 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician in the Labour Party, who served three terms as the prime minister of Norway (1981, 1986–1989, and 1990–1996), as the leader of her party from 1981 to 1992, and as the d ...

, former Prime Minister of Norway. *

Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924December 29, 2024) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party ...

, former President of the United States. He later won the Nobel Peace prize. *

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (, also , ; 11 June 191025 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the A ...

, French marine explorer. *

Jane Goodall Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, Primatology, primatologist and Anthropology, anthropologist. She is considered the world's foremo ...

of the United Kingdom whose research on wild chimpanzees and olive baboons provided insight into the lives of non-human primates *

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, African Conservationist, Nigerian Scholar and Wildlife Expert. *

Annelisa Kilbourn Annelisa Marcelle Kilbourn (27 June 1967 – 2 November 2002) was a British conservationist, veterinarian and wildlife expert. She worked in Malaysia guarding free-ranging elephants and orangutans and protecting Sumatran rhinoceros and in Madagas ...

, British conservationist, veterinarian and wildlife expert. * Gabriel Lewis-Charles, the prominent environmentalist from St Lucia. *

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, founder of the Green Belt Movement, a Kenyan grassroots environmental organisation. She later won the Nobel Peace prize. *

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, Japanese medical researcher heavily involved in the study of

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. * Francisco "Chico" Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper who was murdered during his fight to save the

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. *

George Monbiot George Joshua Richard Monbiot ( ; born 27 January 1963) is an English journalist, author, and Environmental movement, environmental and political activist. He writes a regular column for ''The Guardian'' and has written several books. Monbiot ...

, British journalist and researcher. *

Stephen O. Andersen Stephen Oliver Andersen (born 17 January 1948) is the Director of Research at the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) and former co-chair (1989–2012) of the Montreal Protocol Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) ...

, prominent US environmentalist, for efforts on stratospheric ozone protection *

Nikita Moiseyev Nikita Nikolayevich Moiseyev (Russian: Никита Николаевич Моисеев) (23 August 1917 – 29 February 2000) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, full member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and of the Interna ...

, prominent Russian scientist, leading expert on consequences of nuclear war – "

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". *

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

, 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. *

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, environmental activist and educator. *

Severn Suzuki Severn Cullis-Suzuki (born 30 November 1979) is a Canadian environmental activist and writer. She has spoken around the world about environmental issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in mind and take individual re ...

, environmental activist. *

Lily Venizelos Lily Venizelos (; born 10 April 1933) is a Greek conservationist. She founded the international NGO MEDASSET (MEDiterranean Association to Save the SEa Turtles) in 1988 and continues to serve as its president. For her efforts to protect and prese ...

, Greek conservationist, founder and president of the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles (MEDASSET).

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External links

Website of the Global 500 Laureate Roll of Honour
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Awardees

See also

References

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