[PCA] Fwd: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: UNEP Invites Nominations for 2014 Champions of the Earth Award - Deadline March 14, 2014

Tue Feb 4 07:32:45 CST 2014

Find below a press release inviting nominations for UNEP's 2014 Champions
of the Earth Award.  The nominations are taken online and the link is
below. The link to the main website is: http://www.unep.org/champions/

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 *UNEP Invites Nominations for 2014 Champions of the Earth Award*

*Climate Change Action in Focus as World Works towards New Climate Deal*
*Nairobi, 29 January 2014 *- The United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) is inviting nominations for the 2014 Champions of the Earth Award,
which honours visionaries whose actions and leadership have had a positive
impact on the environment.

UNEP's Champions of the Earth--lauded each year in the fields of Policy and
Leadership, Science and Innovation, Entrepreneurial Vision, and Inspiration
and Action--serve as an inspiration for transformative action as the world
transitions to an inclusive Green Economy.

Previous laureates have been recognized for their efforts in areas such as
the management of natural resources, demonstrating new ways to tackle
climate change and food waste, taking uncompromising business decisions
based on sustainability models and raising awareness of emerging
environmental challenges.

This year, UNEP is particularly interested in individuals who have made a
substantive contribution to tackling climate change as the global community
works towards the agreement of a new comprehensive climate deal, which will
be adopted in 2015 and implemented from 2020. Women and youth nominees are
also strongly encouraged.

Google Earth, Brazil's Minister of Environment Izabella Teixeira and Carlo
Petrini, the founder of the Slow Food Movement, were among the award
winners in 2013.

Others winners in 2013 were European Commissioner for Environment Janez
Potocnik; Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Professor at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, UCSD; Jack Dangermond, founder of the Environmental Systems
Research Institute (ESRI), and Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo from the Sierra
Gorda Biosphere Reserve in Mexico.
Champions of the Earth is now in its 10th year, and since its inception has
seen steady growth in both profile and the number of nominees. It has
recognized heads of state, companies, activists, musicians and many others
at award ceremonies in major cities such as Singapore, Paris, Seoul, New
York City and Rio de Janeiro.

The 2014 winners will be unveiled at a gala event towards the end of the
year. China's Guangdong Wealth supported the 2013 awards, and will continue
to do so in 2014.

*About Champions of the Earth **Champions of the Earth, *which was launched
in 2005*,* is the UN's flagship environmental award. To date, it has
recognized 59 individuals and organizations for their leadership, vision,
inspiration and action on the environment. The list of previous Champions
laureates include Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj, Mexican President
Felipe Calderon, Chinese actress and environmental advocate Zhou Xun, the
Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO) and global music
legend Angélique Kidjo. Visit http://www.unep.org/champions/ to register
your nomination.

*About Guangdong Wealth*
Guangdong Wealth Environmental Protection is a leading supplier of water
purifying products and water treatment integrated solutions in China. The
company practices a business model that puts social welfare before economic
interests. Their development concept "let the sky be bluer and the water
clearer" supports UNEP's goals of maintaining, if not improving, the health
of our natural resources. The company invests in environmental scholarships
for young university students, organizes clean-up operations and donates
tonnes of purifying tablets to tackle pollution in rivers in Guangdong and
Beijing.

*For more information, please contact:*
UNEP Newsdesk (Nairobi), on Tel. +254 725 939 620 or e-mail
unepnewsdesk at unep.org

*Elisabeth Guilbaud-Cox*
United Nations Environment Programme
Regional Office for North America (RONA)
900 17th Street, NW, Suite 506
Washington, D.C. 20006

Tel: (202) 974-1307
Fax: (202) 785-2096
Email: elisabeth.guilbaud-cox at unep.org
Website: www.rona.unep.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RONA.UNEP
Twitter: www.twitter.com/UNEPRONA
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