Global 500 Roll of Honour - Awardees

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:

• Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, a Kenyan grassroots environmental organisation. She later won the Nobel Peace prize.
• Anil Agarwal, the prominent environmentalist from India
• Sir David Attenborough, producer of environmental television programmes
• Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, prominent environmentalist/ecologist from India
• Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway
• Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States. He later won the Nobel Peace prize.
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French marine explorer
• Jane Goodall of the United Kingdom whose research on wild chimpanzees and olive baboons provided insight into the lives of non-human primates
• Chico Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper who was murdered during his fight to save the Amazon rainforest
• George Monbiot, British journalist and researcher
• Nikita Moiseyev a prominent Russian scientist, leading expert on consequences of nuclear war - "nuclear winter"
• 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
• Harada Masazumi, Japanese medical researcher heavily involved in the study of Minamata disease
• the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)
• Gabriel Lewis-Charles, the prominent environmentalist from St Lucia