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| Anna Tibaijuka is awarded prestigious environment prize | ||||
| The Academy foreign member Anna Tibaijuka has been awarded the Göteborg Award, “The Nobel Prize in Environment”. | ||||
| Rapidly growing cities and towns house half of the world’s population. They represent 75 percent of all energy consumption and generate 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. This means that the battle to create more sustainable cities and urban environments – environmentally and socially – is one of the most decisive factors facing the UN Climate Change Conference Copenhagen in December. For this reason the Göteborg Award, one million Swedish crowns, is shared equally by three people who have found new solutions to these enormous challenges: Dr. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Nairobi, Kenya Enrique Peñalosa, Bogotá, Colombia and Sören Hermansen, Samsö, Denmark. The Göteborg Award – “The Nobel Prize in Environment” – celebrates its ten year jubilee in 2009. The Award was founded by the City of Göteborg and several interested companies in 1999. Its purpose is to “stimulate further positive developments and recognize strategic work for national and international sustainable development”. The Award winners received their prize at a prize ceremony on the 26th of November in Göteborg. The Jury’s motivation: Each one comes from a separate continent and they are, locally and globally,knowledgeable, engaged and impatient doers. They are ambassadors for one of the most decisive factors for humanity - the battle for sustainable development in the cities and towns around the globe. These urban environments are already home to half the people in the world, they represent 75 percent of all energy consumption and generate 80 percent of all greenhouse gases. The problems are extremely complex and require urgent but long-term stable solutions. Dr. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and since 2000 the Executive Director of the UN-HABITAT, the world organisation’s settlement program with a mandate to promote socially and environmentally sustainable cities and towns. Under her watch the importance of UN-HABITAT’s active role has grown tremendously. Based on the Millennium Declaration’s goal 2020 to lift 100 million sluminhabitants out of poverty, Dr. Tibaijuka – pugnacious, aggressive and with a prominent African and third world perspective – is leading a successful global undertaking that includes water supplies and empowering women to improve their surroundings. As one of the initiators of "Cities in Climate Change" Anna Tibaijuka is also advancing the practical climate work being carried out in major cities. To the top of this page! |
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