The Global 500 Roll of Honour was an award given from 1987 to 2003 by the United Nations Environment Programme (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 started in 2005.
Awardees
Since the inception of the award in 1987, over 719 individuals and organizations, in adult and youth categories, have been honoured with the Global 500 award. Among prominent winners are:
- Anil Agarwal, prominent environmentalist from India
- Seth Sunday Ajayi, African conservationist, Nigerian scholar and wildlife expert
- Stephen O. Andersen, prominent US environmentalist, for efforts on stratospheric ozone protection
- Sir David Attenborough, producer of environmental television programmes
- Idelisa Bonnelly, 1987 Dominican Republic marine biologist who created the first humpback whale sanctuary
- Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway
- Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States; 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
- Annelisa Kilbourn, British conservationist, veterinarian and wildlife expert
- Gabriel Lewis-Charles, prominent environmentalist from St Lucia
- Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, a Kenyan grassroots environmental organisation; later won the Nobel Peace Prize
- Harada Masazumi, Japanese medical researcher heavily involved in the study of Minamata disease
- Francisco "Chico" Mendes, Brazilian rubber tapper who was murdered during his fight to save the Amazon rainforest
- George Monbiot, British journalist and researcher
- Nikita Moiseyev, prominent Russian scientist, leading expert on nuclear winter
- Ken Saro-Wiwa, 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
- Andrew Simmons, environmental activist and educator
- Severn Suzuki, environmental activist
- Lily Venizelos, Greek conservationist, founder and president of the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles
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