The American journalist, author and environmentalist, Bill McKibben (1960) receives the Sophie Prize 2013 for his mobilizing force to fight global warming.
The Sophie Prize jury finds that Bill McKibben in only a few years has demonstrated a remarkable mobilizing forve, building a global, social movement, fighting to preserve a sustainable planet. Read more
The American journalist, author and environmentalist, Bill McKibben (1960) receives the Sophie Prize 2013 for his mobilizing force to fight global warming.
The 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-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.
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.
”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”.
An 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.
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