Goldman Environmental Prize

We are honored to announce the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize winners. Discover the stories of seven grassroots environmental leaders who prove that ordinary people can have an extraordinary impact on the planet. 🌎🏆 ✨ Nonhle Mbuthuma and Sinegugu Zukulu (South Africa) ✨ Alok Shukla (India) ✨ Teresa Vicente Giménez (Spain) ✨ Murrawah Maroochy Johnson (Australia) ✨ Andrea Vidaurre (United States) of The People's Collective for Environmental Justice ✨ Marcel Gomes (Brazil) Learn more: goldmanprize.org/2024 #GoldmanPrize

This past week, the #GoldmanPrize was delighted to gather with 10 Prize winners and jury member Wanjira Mathai at #COP16 Colombia. 🌎 Together, these grassroots environmental leaders are a force of nature. ✨ #PeaceWithNature #Biodiversity

Francia Márquez, the vice president of #Colombia, won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2018 for her leadership in stopping illegal gold mining on her community’s ancestral land. 🌎 A human rights #leader and environmental defender, Francia continues to defy boundaries and odds. #GoldmanPrize

Painted with ashes from wildfires and mud from droughts in the #Amazon, a mural of 2023 #GoldmanPrize Alessandra Korap Munduruku stands 11 stories tall in São Paulo. 🎨🌳

Biodiversity contributes to healthy economies, food security, and thriving ecosystems. 🌿🐝 It's important—and beautiful. 🌺 📸 // Soham Bhattacharyya and Srikanth Mannepuri by Ocean Image Bank

The #GoldmanPrize is on the ground at #COP16! 📸🌎

As the world's foremost award for grassroots environmental leaders, the #GoldmanPrize is excited to attend the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) and advocate on behalf of people defending biodiversity and the #environment in every corner of the world. 🌎 Learn more about #COP16 on our blog: https://bit.ly/3XOjqLk

Andrea Vidaurre of The People's Collective for Environmental Justice shares that the #GoldmanPrize "has been a chance for us to really reflect and share about the strides we've been making, but also about the work that continues to need to be done." 🌎 Andrea Vidaurre’s grassroots #leadership persuaded the California Air Resources Board to adopt, in the spring of 2023, two historic transportation regulations that significantly limit trucking and rail #emissions. The groundbreaking regulations—a product of Andrea’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. 👉 Watch her interview with NBC News: https://nbcnews.to/3Nnk0uH

Let's recognize #IndigenousPeoplesDay by sharing the stories and messages of Indigenous leaders. 💚 Nemonte Nenquimo led an Indigenous campaign and legal action in #Ecuador that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian #rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. 💚 Julio Cusurichi secured a national reserve in #Peru to protect both sensitive rainforest ecosystems and the rights of Indigenous peoples from the devastating effects of logging and mining. 💚 Liz Chicaje Churay advocated for the creation of Yaguas National Park, protecting more than two million acres of #Amazon rainforest in Peru. 💚 Paul Sein Twa led his Karen community in establishing a 1.35-million-acre #PeacePark—a unique and collaborative community-based approach to conservation—in Myanmar's Salween River basin. 💚 Alexandra Narvaez and Alex Lucitante spearheaded an Indigenous movement to protect their people’s ancestral territory from gold #mining in Ecuador. 💚 Sinegugu Zukulu and Nonhle Mbuthuma stopped destructive seismic testing for #oil and gas off #SouthAfrica’s Eastern Cape, in an area known as the Wild Coast. 🎥 Watch short films about these inspiring individuals on the #GoldmanPrize YouTube channel.

Ahead of the UN #COP16, Indigenous leader and #GoldmanPrize winner Alex Lucitante underscores the importance of including #Indigenous communities in the protection of #biodiversity. 🌎 Read the story: https://bit.ly/3Y6rdEn