Encouraging Eco Logical Action
Volvo inaugurated the Volvo Environment Prize back in 1990 and such is the prestige of the award that it has, over time becomes known as ‘The seventh unofficial Nobel Prize.’
Entirely independent of both Volvo Cars and Volvo Group, an independent foundation selects a Volvo Environment Prize Laureate each year, a person or persons who have demonstrated "Outstanding innovations or scientific discoveries which in broad terms fall within the environmental field".
Since the first award of the Volvo Environment Prize in 1990, just 36 individuals have savoured the honour, amongst them many well-known names in the scientific and academic spheres and three who have subsequently gone on to win a Nobel Prize.
Worth SEK1.5 million to the winner(s) and a specially-commissioned scroll and glass trophy, the current Volvo Environment laureate is Dr Susan Solomon, anoutstanding atmospheric chemist and physicist, whose pioneering scientific contributions have had major impact on crucial environmental policies.
And, as with Volvo’s golf and sailing programmes, Volvo also encourages the next generation of young environmentalists with the Volvo Adventure, an Internet-based educational competition, the youngsters with the most sustainable projects invited to showcase their green credentials in the Volvo Adventure World Final, with US$20,000 in bursaries on offer.
www.environment-prize.com /
www.volvoadventure.org