GOLDMAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE 2019

About:

• Objective: To honour those grassroots environmentalists who risk their lives to protect the environment and empower those people who have the most to lose from industrial projects.
  
  
• Selection procedure:
  • The Prize honours grassroots environmental heroes from the world’s six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands & Island Nations, North America, and South & Central America.
    
    
  • Winners are selected from nominations made by environmental organisations and others.
    
    
  • Generally, the winners are announced every April to coincide with Earth Day.
    
    
  
  
  
• Established in: 1989. 
  
  
• Established by: Philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman. 
  
  
• Awarded annually by: Goldman Environmental Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, California. 
  
  
• Cash prize: $200,000. 
  
  
• Indians to win this award in past: Prafulla Samantara, Medha Patkar, M.C. Mehta, Rasheeda Bi, Champaran Shukla and Ramesh Agrawal.