Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian environmentalist activist and poet, elected chair of Friends of the Earth International[1] and Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action. He is one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment 2009.[2] In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named co-winner of the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize). [3]
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At the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Bassey - despite being accredited - was "physically kept out" of a meeting.[4]