Goldman Environmental Prize Blog

In this guest blog, Program Officer Lindsey Freedman shares her experience traveling to Chiang Mai, Thailand, in March 2020, to meet with 2020 Prize winner Paul Sein Twa. Paul led his Indigenous Karen people in establishing a 1.35-million-acre peace park in the biodiverse Salween River basin in Myanmar. In February 2021, a military junta staged…

Meeting Powerhouse Rizwana Hasan A conversation with Rizwana Hasan (Bangladesh, 2009) is like a crash course in international relations, environmental studies, and political economics rolled into one. She navigated our questions and led the conversation with clarity and ease, expanding upon some topics and addressing others with brevity, always looping back at the end to re-articulate her…

In honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating three Goldman Prize winners who’ve made formidable contributions to the fight against climate change. These three women, each of whom sought to protect the environment in different ways, are a powerful reminder that climate change isn’t a problem with a single solution. There…

This interview was conducted on January 18, prior to the military coup d’état in Myanmar* on February 1, 2021. Since then, we have been in contact with the three Burmese Prize winners—Ka Hsaw Wa (1999), Myint Zaw (2015), and Paul Sein Twa (2020)—and are monitoring their safety. Meting Ka Hsaw Wa Smiling and exuding boundless…

Congratulations to Andrew Simmons (St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1994) on the publication of his new book, Impacts of Climate Change on Young People in Small Island Communities. The book is an expansion of Andrew’s PhD thesis and argues that youths are generally excluded from research, studies, and planning on climate change but face the…

Happy New Year! 2021 brings new possibilities for hope, self-examination, and continued action for our planet and its defenders. Reflecting on the extraordinary and challenging year that just concluded, one particular word rises above the many for me: resilience. While it would be easy to enumerate our myriad weaknesses as a species, Homo sapiens at…

The following is a statement by 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize winner Nemonte Nenquimo. Read the Spanish translation. By Nemonte Nenquimo When I was a little girl I used to swing in the hammock at night by the fire and listen to my elders sing. Imagine all of us kids, barefoot, piled into a hammock beneath a…

La siguiente es una declaración de la ganadora del Premio Ambiental Goldman 2020, Nemonte Nenquimo. Lea la traducción al inglés. By Nemonte Nenquimo De niña, me mecía en la hamaca por la noche junto a la fogata y escuchaba cantar a los mayores. Imagínense— todos nosotros, los niños, descalzos y amontonados en la hamaca, bajo el…

Ce qui suit est une déclaration de Lucie Pinson, lauréate du prix Goldman pour l’environnement 2020. Lisez la traduction en anglais. Par Lucie Pinson Nous pouvons gagner la guerre climatique. Les événements climatiques extrêmes s’accélèrent et s’intensifient, paupérisant encore plus les moins responsables de la catastrophe écologique et attisant les tensions sociales sur fond de…

The following is a statement by 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize winner Lucie Pinson. Read the French translation. By Lucie Pinson We can win the climate war. Extreme weather events are accelerating and intensifying, further impoverishing those least responsible for global ecological disaster and fueling social tensions amid rising nationalism. The Arctic is melting, California and…