*[Enwl-eng] The 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners 🌍🏆
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Date: пн, 29 апр. 2024 г. в 19:00
Subject: The 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners 🌍🏆
Celebrating ordinary people that can have an extraordinary impact on the
environment
Introducing the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize
Winners
We are honored to announce the recipients of the
2024 Goldman Environmental Prize. Their amazing stories prove that ordinary
people can have an extraordinary impact on the planet.
Sinegugu Zukulu and Nonhle Mbuthuma
Africa / South Africa
In September 2022, activists Nonhle Mbuthuma and
Sinegugu Zukulu stopped destructive seismic testing for oil and gas off
South Africa’s Eastern Cape, in an area known as the Wild Coast. Organizing
their community, Mbuthuma and Zukulu secured their victory by asserting the
rights of the local community to protect their marine environment. By
halting oil and gas exploration in a particularly biodiverse area, they
protected migratory whales, dolphins, and other wildlife from the harmful
effects of seismic testing.
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Alok Shukla
Asia / India
Alok Shukla led a successful community campaign that
saved 445,000 acres of biodiversity-rich forests from 21 planned coal mines
in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. In July 2022, the government
canceled the 21 proposed coal mines in Hasdeo Aranya, whose pristine
forests—popularly known as the lungs of Chhattisgarh—are one of the largest
intact forest areas in India.
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Teresa Vincente
Europe / Spain
Teresa Vicente led an unprecedented grassroots
campaign to save the unique ecosystem of the Mar Menor—Europe’s largest
saltwater lagoon—from collapse, resulting in a September 2022 decision by
the Spanish Parliament that protects the lagoon by granting it unique legal
rights. Considered to be the most important saltwater coastal lagoon in the
western Mediterranean, the once-pristine waters of the Mar Menor have become
polluted from agricultural runoff and a boom in tourism infrastructure.
Read More
Murrawah Maroochy Johnson
Islands & Island Nations / Australia
Murrawah Maroochy Johnson blocked development of the
Waratah coal mine, which would have destroyed the nearly 20,000-acre
Bimblebox Nature Refuge and added 1.58 billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere
over its lifetime. Johnson’s case, which overcame an appeal in 2023, set a
precedent that now enables other First Nations people to halt coal projects
by linking climate change to Indigenous rights. Her victory resulted in the
first-ever court-sanctioned linkage between Indigenous rights and climate
change to successfully stop an Australian coal mine.
Read More
Andrea Vidaurre
North America / United States
In April 2023, Andrea Vidaurre’s grassroots
leadership persuaded the California Air Resources Board to adopt two
historic transportation regulations that significantly limit trucking and
rail emissions. The new regulations—the In-Use Locomotive Rule and the
California Advanced Clean Fleets Rule—include the nation’s first emission
rule for trains and a path to 100% zero emissions for freight truck sales by
2036, respectively. The groundbreaking regulations—a product of Vidaurre’s
policy work and community organizing—will substantially improve air quality
for millions of Californians while accelerating the country’s transition to
zero-emission vehicles.
Read More
Marcel Gomes
South & Central America / Brazil
Marcel Gomes coordinated an international campaign
that directly linked beef from JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company,
to illegal deforestation in Brazil’s most threatened ecosystems. Armed with
the evidence from his breakthrough investigative report, Gomes pressured
global retailers to stop selling the illegally sourced meat, leading six
major European supermarket chains in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and
the United Kingdom to indefinitely boycott the sale of JBS products in
December 2021.
Read More
Watch the San Francisco Award Ceremony
Join us this evening, Monday, April 29, 2024, at
5:30 pm PDT / 8:30 pm EDT to watch the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize
ceremony in San Francisco. The ceremony will be hosted by Rue Mapp, founder
of Outdoor Afro, and feature live entertainment from Jazz Mafia, a
quintessential Bay Area sound. Actor Sigourney Weaver will be narrating the
Prize winner videos.
Watch the Livestream
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hashtags #GoldmanPrize and #GoldmanPrize2024.
The Goldman Environmental Prize, administered
by the Goldman Environmental Foundation, is the world's foremost award
honoring grassroots environmental activists. Learn more: goldmanprize.org
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