Blue Planet Prize

For the Blue Planet Award, see Ethecon Foundation.
Blue Planet Prize
CountryJapan
Presented byAsahi Glass Foundation
Established1992
Websitewww.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/

The Blue Planet Prize recognises outstanding efforts in scientific research or applications of science that contribute to solving global environmental problems. The prize was created by the Asahi Glass Foundation in 1992, the year of the Rio Earth Summit, and since then the foundation has awarded the prize to two winners every year.[1] In 2012, twenty of the Blue Planet Prize winners collaborated on a joint paper that was launched at the UN Environment Programme's Governing Council meeting in Nairobi on 20 February.[2][3]

  1. ^ "About the Blue Planet Prize". af-info.or.jp.
  2. ^ UNEP. 2012. Blue Planet Prize winners call for transformational change to achieve sustainable development Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Press release. 10 February 2011.
  3. ^ Pearce. F. 2012. Earth Summit is doomed to fail, say leading ecologists. New Scientist website. 10 February 2012.