Six people from around the world have been selected for the Goldman prize for grassroots environmental activism.
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.
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