Zayed International Prize for the Environment
# Zayed International Prize for the Environment

The Zayed International Prize for the Environment is a prize awarded by the Zayed International Foundation for the Environment.

The Zayed Prize, worth 1 million US dollars is awarded every two years, in the name of the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, based on stringent selection criteria.

The Zayed Prize is classified into four award categories. The recipient of the Global Leadership on the Environment component receives $USD 500,000, the recipient of the Scientific and Technological Achievement component receives $USD 250,000, and the recipient of the Environmental Action Leading to Positive Change in Society component receives $USD 200,000 and Young Scientists Award for Environmental Sustainability $USD 50,000 The value of the prize is the highest of any environmental prize.

The prize was established in 1999 by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and was first awarded in 2001. The prize was named after Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

## Winners

### Global Leadership on the Environment

| 2001 | Jimmy Carter |
| - | - |
| 2003 | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| 2005 | Kofi Annan |
| 2008 | Gro Harlem Brundtland |
| 2011 | Lee Myung-bak |
| 2014 | Albert II of Monaco |

### Scientific and Technological Achievement

| 2001 | Mohamed El-Kassas | World Commission on Dams | |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2003 | Godwin Obasi | Mostafa Tolba | Bert Bolin |
| 2005 | Millennium Ecosystem Assessment | | |
| 2008 | Jane Lubchenco | V. Ramanathan | |
| 2011 | Partha Dasgupta | | |
| 2014 | Ashok Khosla | Zakri Abdul Hamid | |

### Environmental Action Leading to Positive Change in Society

| 2001 | Yolanda Kakabadse | Stephan Schmidheiny |
| - | - | - |
| 2003 | Badria Al Awadhi | Jamal Mohamed Safi |
| 2005 | Angela Cropper | Emil Salim |
| 2008 | Environment Development Action in the Third World | Tierramérica |
| 2011 | Mathis Wackernagel | Najib Saab |
| 2014 | Luc Hoffmann | Paula Caballero Gómez |
