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\nThe 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize was awarded
\nto seven grassroots environmental activists for their courage
\nand commitment in helping to save our planet from unfettered destruction.
\nAwardees from left to right: Yuyun Ismawati, Olga Speranskaya,
\nHugo Jabini, Marc Ona Essangui, Syeda Riswana Hasan,
\nWanze Eduards and Maria Gunnoe.
\nPhotos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Fanny Dassie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

April 22, 2009<\/p>\n

Environmental issues have always impacted the planet but the coverage they\u2019ve received over the past years and people\u2019s awareness of them has grown tremendously. Two days prior to Earth Day, seven grassroots environmental leaders from all six inhabited continents were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco in recognition of their tremendous achievements to preserve and secure a better environment.<\/p>\n

The Goldman Environmental Prize, established by San Francisco philanthropist Richard N. Goldman and his late wife Rhoda H. Goldman 20 years ago, is the most prestigious environmental award in the world. It praises ordinary people for their exceptional courage, activism and commitment to help save the planet from unfettered destruction and awards them with a $150,000 cash prize.<\/p>\n


\nRichard Goldman (left).<\/p>\n

\u201cI really admire what [the Goldmans] do,\u201d CNN news correspondent Christiane Amanpour told FCJ during a green-carpet event that preceded the awards ceremony. \u201cThe environment is our real major challenge for our children, for our planet, for everything. It is not just a luxury. It really matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collective efforts from everyone were a constant theme in the ceremony speeches. Amanpour said climate change is mainly man-made and the US government, with the collaboration of all governments including India and China, should lead the way in tackling the most pressing issue facing our generation: \u201cIt is a massive global structural change that needs to take place,\u201d Amanpour said.<\/p>\n


\nChristiane Amanpour<\/p>\n

The US government\u2019s strategic role in the fight against global warming was stressed by former Vice President Al Gore who said changes will follow if the United States, as well as its citizens, take the matter into its own hands.<\/p>\n

Gore acknowledged that the stories of the Goldman Prize winners are stories of \u201ccourage and heroism,\u201d of men and women who are driven by a selfless conscience that connects them to the Earth. He compared the year 2009 to \u201cthe Gettysburg for the global environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gore said a tendency to confuse the \u201cunprecedented with the improbable\u201d explains why some people remain unconvinced about the human impacts on climate change. He said such a tendency has its place in most situations with the exception of climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never had 6.7 billion people before,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve never burned so much coal and oil before. We\u2019ve never had so many cars and diesel trucks around the world before, and we\u2019ve never put 70 million tonnes of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours in any previous period in history.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAl Gore<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s winners have been battling on many fronts, from mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia, implementing waste-management solutions in Indonesia, to exposing the devastating ship breaking industry in Bangladesh, often under terrible circumstances.<\/p>\n

Marc Ona Essangui, president of the environmental NGO Brainforest and one of the winners of this year\u2019s award, has been put under a lot of pressure by the Gabonese government because of his work to denounce a deal between a Chinese firm and the Gabonese government, arguing that a mining project would damage the already fragile ecosystem. His fighting spirit gave him cause for concern: he received threats, was repeatedly arrested and almost didn\u2019t make it to the ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to sincerely thank the Gabonese ambassador to the United States, Mr Carlos Boungou, and all the staff of the American embassy who fought fiercely for me to be here today,\u201d Ona said. \u201cI will never abandon the waterfalls of Congo as long as they breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Some former recipients of the award have pursued their combat for environmental protection, which has led to noteworthy changes. The city of Rosia Montana in Romania, for which 2005 winner Stephanie Roth campaigned to stop the construction of Europe\u2019s largest open cast gold mine, was declared, in 2008, \u201ca cultural monument of national interest\u201d by the Romanian Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Actor\/Director Robert Redford, who has been a long time activist and who regularly speaks out to support a more sustainable future and the protection of natural resources, said he was \u201cincredibly inspired by the courage and the commitment of these activists and what they are willing to do to just create a safer planet.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nRobert Redford<\/p>\n

\u201cAs someone who has useful knowledge, I feel obliged to help change the world for the better,\u201d said Yuyun Ismawati, who won one of this year\u2019s Prizes for her involvement in developing waste-management solutions in Bali, Indonesia.<\/p>\n


\nYuyun Ismawati<\/p>\n

Environmental activists, by their endless dedication, contribute to making climate change one of the most pressing issues in today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for reminding others that ordinary people create extraordinary changes,\u201d Goldman said to the awardees.<\/p>\n

Luke Thomas contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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