Champions of the Earth
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The United Nations Environment Programme established Champions of the Earth in 2005 as an annual awards programme to recognize outstanding environmental leaders. The number of awards is limited to seven in each year.
This awards programme is a successor to UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour.
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[edit] Awardees
[edit] 2006
- Rosa Elena Simeon Negrin, Cuba
- Women's Environment & Development Organization
- Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Ethiopia
- Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iran
- Mohamed El-Ashry
- Tommy Koh Thong Bee, Singapore
- Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia
[edit] 2005
- King of Bhutan, Bhutan
- Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, United Arab Emirates
- Thabo Mbeki, South Africa
- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Canada
- Julia Carabias Lillo, Mexico
- Zhou Qiang, China
