The winner of the award mentioned in the post above, attributed by the
Portuguese Gulbenkian Foundation was announced today. Greta Thunberg. was
selected among 136 candidates from 46 different countries
“A Committee of
Specialists, presided by Miguel Bastos Araújo, has evaluated, in a
first stage, 136 nominations and presented a shortlist of 10 nominees, for the
final assessment of the Grand Jury. This Committee was composed of figures such
as Arlindo Oliveira (Full Professor at the Department of Information
Technology, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon), Carsten Rahbek (Director
of the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of
Copenhagen), Rik Leemans (Director of the Environmental Systems
Analysis Group, Wageningen University) and Viriato Soromenho Marques (Professor
of Political Philosophy Teacher at the University of Lisbon)”
“The
Grand Jury chaired by Jorge Sampaio, President of the Portuguese Republic
from 1996 to 2006, is composed by personalities like Hans
Joachim Schellnhuber (Founder and Director Emeritus of the Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research), Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim (President of
Indigenous Women and Peoples Association of Chad), Johan Rockström (Director
of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at the
University of Potsdam), Katherine Richardson (Coordinator of the
Centre of Sustainability Science at the University of Copenhagen), Miguel
Arias Cañete (former European Energy and Climate Action
Commissioner), Miguel Bastos Araújo (Geographer, Pessoa Award 2018),
Runa Khan (Founder and Executive Director of the Friendship NGO and
Country Chair of Global Dignity Bangladesh) and Sunita Narain (Writer
and environmental activist, Director of the Centre for Science and Environment,
New Delhi)”
