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The Volvo Environment Prize event 2023 starts soon.

Science for the planet – who will get the award this year?

The Volvo Environment Prize rewards and highlights the work of world-leading scientists tackling climate change, overfishing, microplastics, biodiversity loss, and other environmental threats.

The Volvo Environment Prize celebrates 35 Years.

Many previous laureates have been trailblazers and pioneers whose work has shaped the modern sustainability agenda. Learn more about their work in videos and articles on our website.

“The path to sustainability is unstoppable”

Johan Rockström, one of the world’s most-cited scientists on global sustainability, has joined the Prize Jury. He has a lot to say about the future for the Planet.

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Videos about world-leading research

Watch the video: The Urbanized Jungle

Rewarding Pathbreaking Science

The International Prize Jury
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2023 Prize Awarded for Amazon Research

The 2023 Volvo Environment Prize honored Professor Eduardo Brondizio for his impactful research on the Amazon, focusing on the complex interplay of social and environmental challenges in the region. His work, which emphasizes the importance of integrating local knowledge systems with global sustainability efforts, was featured through the premiere of “The Urbanized Jungle,” a film highlighting his significant contributions.

The recent laureates

2023

Eduardo Brondizio

For world leading research in complex systems thinking, which is embedded in an ethnographic approach.

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2022

Richard Thompson, Tamara Galloway, Penelope Lindeque

For ground breaking research that has been instrumental in providing societal awareness of plastic pollution as an emerging global challenge.

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2021
Yale University

Paul Anastas

For pioneering work in ”green chemistry”, a systems approach to sustainability that tackles pollution problems at their source.

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What is the Volvo Environment Prize?

The Volvo Environment Prize aims to recognize and support outstanding scientific achievements that contribute significantly to environmental stewardship and sustainability.

Who awards the Volvo Environment Prize?

The Volvo Environment Prize is awarded by an Independent Foundation. The Secretariate of the prize is hosted at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, an international research institute for global sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden.

The process for the selection of the laureate involves a call for nominations, a screening process by a Scientific Committee, and then the successful candidate is chosen by an international Prize Jury.

The Foundation’s work is financed by the Volvo Group, a leading manufacturer of vehicles and heavy-duty machines. The Group is committed to sustainability in its entire value chain. Environmental issues and sustainable development have been part of Volvo Group’s core values since the 1980s.

What are the criteria for the award?

Scientific excellence and contributions to decision making and policy are the most important criteria. The candidate must have an outstanding research and publication record with emphasis on impact.

c/o Marie Huss
Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics,
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Box 50005, 104 05 Stockholm,
Sweden

E-mail: info@environment-prize.com

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