Goldman Environmental Prize

The award is given by the Goldman Environmental Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, California.

[3] The winners are selected by an international jury who receive confidential nominations from a worldwide network of environmental organizations and individuals.

[4] Prize winners participate in a 10-day tour of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony and presentation, news conferences, media briefings and meetings with political, public policy, financial and environmental leaders.

[5] The award ceremony features short documentary videos on each winner, narrated by Robert Redford through the year 2020,[6][7] and Sigourney Weaver beginning in 2021.

[8] The 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony marking the 30th anniversary took place on April 29, 2019, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco.

Ethnobiologist Paul Alan Cox (left) and village chief Fuiono Senio (right) won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1997 for their conservation efforts at Falealupo in Western Samoa. Their work later led to the founding of Seacology .
American congressional leader Nancy Pelosi is often present at the Prize awards ceremony; here in 2016, award winner Zuzana Čaputová would go on to be elected President of Slovakia