St Andrews Prize for the Environment | |
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Awarded for | Significant contributions to environmental concerns and issues |
Sponsored by | University of St Andrews ConocoPhillips (until 2020) |
Country | Scotland, United Kingdom |
Presented by | University of St Andrews |
Reward(s) | US$100,000 and Medal |
First awarded | 1998[1] |
Website | www |
The St Andrews Prize for the Environment is a prestigious [2] [3] international environmental award funded and administered by the University of St Andrews in Scotland, United Kingdom. [4] Prior to 2020, the American exploration and production company ConocoPhillips sponsored the prize. [5]
The award recognises significant contributions to environmental issues and concerns aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals. Applications are invited from individuals, multi-disciplinary teams or community groups. The winning environmental project receives funding of US$100,000 and each of the two runners-up receive US$25,000. [6]
The current Chair of the eight-person judging panel is CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Hayaatun Sillem. [7]
List of winners has been taken from the St Andrews Prize website: [8]
Year | Region Served | Winner | Initiative | URL |
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2022 | Costa Rica | Misión Tiburón | Community-based project to protect and restore blue carbon sinks in the Hammerhead Shark Sanctuary. | |
2021 | Finland | Snowchange Cooperative | A landscape rewilding programme which incorporates indigenous knowledge to tackle ecosystems affected by climate change, especially peatlands, in the Arctic and boreal areas of Finland. | |
2020 | Uganda | Conservation Through Public Health | A project which takes a multi-faceted approach to conservation integrating approaches addressing biodiversity conservation, health advances and livelihood improvements for local communities. | |
2019 | India | Saathi | Using agricultural waste to create a biodegradable menstruation product for women in parts of rural India. | |
Year | Region Served | Winner | Initiative | URL |
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2018 | Peru | The Mountain Institute | Restoration of an ancestral water system to tackle water scarcity issues in the Nor-Yauyos Cochas Landscape Reserve of Peru. | |
2017 | Kenya | Plantwise | Improving information dissemination to reduce reliance on harmful pesticides, increase crop yields and to improve food security. | |
2016 | Brazil | Liter of Light | An innovative source of light which involves refracting light from a solution in a plastic bottle to brighten homes and produce no carbon emissions. | |
2015 | Guinea | Wild Chimpanzee Foundation | A multi-level conservation project, which aims to protect the largest remaining population of wild Chimpanzees on the Foutah Djallon-Bafing River (FDBR) region in Guinea, West Africa. | |
2014 | Madagascar | Blue Ventures | Empowering local communities in southwest Madagascar to protect their marine environment and manage their resources sustainably by integrating holistic community-based health services within local biodiversity conservation initiatives. | |
2013 | Kenya | Elephants and Bees | Project developed from the behavioural discovery that honey bees can be used as a natural deterrent to crop raiding elephants. | |
2012 | Kenya | Lion Guardians | Thirty-two non-literate Maasai warriors in Kenya were trained and employed as community conservationists and field biologists. | |
2011 | India | Biolite | An innovative cookstove, which provides improved air quality and a clean economic source of electricity inside the home. | |
2010 | India | Bhaskar Sen Gupta | An innovative method of removing arsenic from groundwater without using chemicals. | — |
2009 | China | One Earth Designs | For the development of a high-performance solar cooker (SolSource) to meet the needs of Himalayan villagers. The SolSource 3-in-1 project aims to supply clean energy for cooking, heating, and thermo-electricity generation to high-altitude low-income communities. | |
Year | Region Served | Winner | Initiative | URL |
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2008 | Malawi | Ian Thorpe | The Elephant Toilet provides an innovative and sustainable sanitation solution which could benefit millions of people across Africa, and beyond. | |
2007 | Philippines | David Manalo | River, Fibre and Power Project providing sustainable lighting services in remote locations in the Philippines. | — |
2006 | Guatemala | Erika Vohman | Promoting the use of Maya nut in Central America. | |
2005 | Zimbabwe | Pump Aid | Creation of the Elephant Pump, a pump built using simple technology and locally available materials. | |
2004 | Peru | Conrad Feather | Deployment of GPS and other similar technologies to enable the Nahua people of Peru to map and better understand the land they live on. | — |
2003 | India | Bunker Roy | Founding of the Barefoot College in Rajasthan to train semi-literate and non-literate women to spread solar energy in remote Himalayan villages. | |
2002 | Vietnam | Monina Escalada | In collaboration with the International Rice Research institute of the Philippines, rice farmers in Northern Vietnam were persuaded to limit usage of insecticides. | — |
2001 | Kenya | George Odera Outa | A team from the University of Nairobi led by Outa developed a community education project to combat the environmental hazards that affect Lake Victoria. | — |
2000 | Palestine | Hikmat Hilal and Amer El-Hamouz | A team from An-Najah National University in the West Bank put forward a proposal to turn the waste from olive oil production into useful by-products. | — |
1999 | South Africa | Daniel Limpitlaw | Limpitlaw's work on further understanding the links between early mining developments and subsequent environmental degradation. | — |
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