James Hansen believes that a victory in the fight against tar sands is possible
Monday 13 May 2013The Sophie Prize Winner 2010, the American climate scientist James Hansen, believes it is possible to win the fight against tar sand. At his private blog Hansen recently expressed how he is encouraged by the mobilization in Norway against Statoil’s tar sand production in Canada.
The Sophie Prize Award 2013 will take place on October 28
Monday 13 May 2013The Sophie Prize Award-winner 2013 will soon be announced. Normally the award ceremony takes place in the middle of June. This year there will be a big award ceremony on the 28th of October.
Speech by Sophie Prize Winner Eva Joly
Thursday 14 June 2012By Gro Eva Farseth Joly
It is a great honour for me to be awarded the Sophie Prize. I accept it with a huge debt of gratitude and with an enormous sense of my own inadequacy.
Speech by the chair of the board of the Sophie Prize
Wednesday 13 June 2012By Liv Røhnebæk Bjergene
”Today’s economic system is at odds with the limits set by nature. Too many decisions are based on short-term profit for a few select groups rather than a moral and fair distribution of the world's resources”.
Eva Joly receives the Sophie Prize on June 13th
Friday 11 May 2012An official Ceremony to honor Eva Joly, the Sophie Prize winner of 2012, will be held in Oslo on June 13th. The Norwegian Minister of the Environment, Bård Vegar Solhjell, will hand over the prize.
"Never underestimate
the individuals ability to change the world"
Mahatma Gandhi