Goldman Environmental Prize - wikipedia Goldman Environmental Prize Goldman Environmental Prize Website goldmanprize.org The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world 's six geographic regions : Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The prize includes a no - strings - attached award of US $175,000 per recipient. Since the prize was established in 1989, a total of $15.9 million has been awarded to 157 people from more than 79 countries, as of 2013. The award is given by the Goldman Environmental Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is also called the Green Nobel. The Goldman Environmental Prize was created in 1990 by civic leaders and philanthropists Richard N. Goldman and his wife, Rhoda H. Goldman. The winners are selected by an international jury who receive confidential nominations from by a worldwide network of environmental organizations and individuals. 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. In 2013, David Gordon became executive director of the foundation. The 2017 Environmental Prizes marking the 28th anniversary, were awarded on April 24, 2017 during ceremonies held at the San Francisco Opera House. Contents 1 Prize winners 1.1 1990 1.2 1991 1.3 1992 1.4 1993 1.5 1994 1.6 1995 1.7 1996 1.8 1997 1.9 1998 1.10 1999 1.11 2000 1.12 2001 1.13 2002 1.14 2003 1.15 2004 1.16 2005 1.17 2006 1.18 2007 1.19 2008 1.20 2009 1.21 2010 1.22 2011 1.23 2012 1.24 2013 1.25 2014 1.26 2015 1.27 2016 1.28 2017 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Prize winners Source : Goldman Environmental Foundation 1990 Robert Brown ( Australia ) Lois Gibbs ( United States ) Janet Gibson ( Belize ) Harrison Ngau Laing ( Malaysia ) János Vargha ( Hungary ) Michael Werikhe ( Kenya ) 1991 Wangari Muta Maathai ( Kenya ) Barnens Regnskog ( Eha Kern & Roland Tiensuu ) ( Sweden ) Evaristo Nugkuag ( Peru ) Yoichi Kuroda ( Japan ) Samuel LaBudde ( United States ) Cath Wallace ( New Zealand ) 1992 Jeton Anjain ( Marshall Islands ) Medha Patkar ( India ) Wadja Egnankou ( Ivory Coast ) Christine Jean ( France ) Colleen McCrory ( Canada ) Carlos Alberto Ricardo ( Brazil ) 1993 Margaret Jacobsohn & Garth Owen - Smith ( Namibia ) Juan Mayr ( Colombia ) Dai Qing ( China ) John Sinclair ( Australia ) JoAnn Tall ( United States ) Sviatoslav Zabelin ( Russia ) 1994 Matthew Coon Come ( Canada ) Tuenjai Deetes ( Thailand ) Laila Iskander Kamel ( Egypt ) Luis Macas ( Ecuador ) Heffa Schücking ( Germany ) Andrew Simmons ( St. Vincent and the Grenadines ) 1995 Aurora Castillo ( United States ) Yul Choi ( South Korea ) Noah Idechong ( Palau ) Emma Must ( England ) Ricardo Navarro ( El Salvador ) Ken Saro - Wiwa ( Nigeria ) Ndyakira Amooti ( Uganda ) Bill Ballantine ( New Zealand ) Edwin Bustillos ( Mexico ) M.C. Mehta ( India ) Marina Silva ( Brasil ) Albena Simeonova ( Bulgaria ) 1997 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. Nick Carter ( Zambia ) Loir Botor Dingit ( Indonesia ) Alexander Nikitin ( Russia ) Juan Pablo Orrego ( Chile ) Fuiono Senio & Paul Alan Cox ( Western Samoa ) Terri Swearingen ( United States ) 1998 Anna Giordano ( Italy ) Kory Johnson ( United States ) Berito Kuwaru'wa ( Colombia ) Atherton Martin ( Commonwealth of Dominica ) Sven `` Bobby '' Peek ( South Africa ) Hirofumi Yamashita ( Japan ) 1999 Jacqui Katona & Yvonne Margarula ( Australia ) Michal Kravcik ( Slovakia ) Bernard Martin ( Canada ) Samuel Nguiffo ( Cameroon ) Jorge Varela ( Honduras ) Ka Hsaw Wa ( Myanmar ) 2000 Oral Ataniyazova ( Uzbekistan ) Elias Diaz Peña & Oscar Rivas ( Paraguay ) Vera Mischenko ( Russia ) Rodolfo Montiel Flores ( Mexico ) Alexander Peal ( Liberia ) Nat Quansah ( Madagascar ) 2001 Jane Akre & Steve Wilson ( reporter ) ( United States ) Yosepha Alomang ( Indonesia ) Giorgos Catsadorakis & Myrsini Malakou ( Greece ) Oscar Olivera ( Bolivia ) Eugène Rutagarama ( Rwanda ) Bruno Van Peteghem ( New Caledonia ) 2002 Pisit Charnsnoh ( Thailand ) Sarah James & Jonathon Solomon ( United States ) Fatima Jibrell ( Somalia ) Alexis Massol González ( Puerto Rico ) Norma Kassi ( Canada ) Jean La Rose ( Guyana ) Jadwiga Łopata ( Poland ) 2003 Julia Bonds ( United States ) Pedro Arrojo - Agudo ( Spain ) Eileen Kampakuta Brown & Eileen Wani Wingfield ( Australia ) Von Hernandez ( Philippines ) Maria Elena Foronda Farro ( Peru ) Odigha Odigha ( Nigeria ) Rudolf Amenga - Etego ( Ghana ) Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla ( India ) Libia Grueso ( Colombia ) Manana Kochladze ( Georgia ) Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho ( East Timor ) Margie Richard ( United States ) 2005 Isidro Baldenegro López ( Mexico ) Kaisha Atakhanova ( Kazakhstan ) Jean - Baptiste Chavannes ( Haiti ) Stephanie Danielle Roth ( Romania ) Corneille Ewango ( Congo ) José Andrés Tamayo Cortez ( Honduras ) 2006 Silas Kpanan ' Siakor ( Liberia ) Yu Xiaogang ( China ) Olya Melen ( Ukraine ) Anne Kajir ( Papua New Guinea ) Craig E. Williams ( United States ) Tarcisio Feitosa da Silva ( Brazil ) 2007 Sophia Rabliauskas ( Manitoba, Canada ) Hammerskjoeld Simwinga ( Zambia ) Tsetsgeegiin Mönkhbayar ( Mongolia ) Julio Cusurichi Palacios ( Peru ) Willie Corduff ( Ireland ) Orri Vigfússon ( Iceland ) 2008 Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanza ( Ecuador ) Jesus Leon Santos ( Oaxaca, Mexico ) Rosa Hilda Ramos ( Puerto Rico ) Feliciano dos Santos ( Mozambique ) Marina Rikhvanova ( Russia ) Ignace Schops from `` Hoge Kempen National Park '' ( Belgium ) 2009 Maria Gunnoe, Bob White, West Virginia, United States Marc Ona, Libreville, Gabon Rizwana Hasan, Dhaka, Bangladesh Olga Speranskaya, Moscow, Russia Yuyun Ismawati, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini, Pikin Slee Village and Paramaribo, Suriname Thuli Brilliance Makama, Swaziland Tuy Sereivathana, Cambodia Małgorzata Górska, Poland Humberto Ríos Labrada, Cuba Lynn Henning, United States Randall Arauz, Costa Rica 2011 Raoul du Toit, Zimbabwe Dmitry Lisitsyn, Russia Ursula Sladek, Germany Prigi Arisandi, Indonesia Hilton Kelley, United States Francisco Pineda, El Salvador 2012 Ikal Angelei, Kenya Ma Jun, China Yevgeniya Chirikova, Russia Edwin Gariguez, Philippines Caroline Cannon, United States Sofia Gatica, Argentina 2013 Azzam Alwash, Iraq Aleta Baun, Indonesia Jonathan Deal, South Africa Rossano Ercolini, Italy Nohra Padilla, Colombia Kimberly Wasserman, United States 2014 Desmond D'Sa, South Africa Ramesh Agrawal, India Suren Gazaryan, Russia Rudi Putra, Indonesia Helen Slottje, United States Ruth Buendia, Peru 2015 Myint Zaw, Myanmar Marilyn Baptiste, Canada Jean Wiener, Haiti Phyllis Omido, Kenya Howard Wood, Scotland Berta Cáceres, Honduras 2016 Máxima Acuña, Peru Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakia Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera, Puerto Rico Edward Loure, Tanzania Leng Ouch, Cambodia Destiny Watford, United States 2017 Wendy Bowman, Australia Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo mark ! Lopez, United States Uroš Macerl, Slovenia Prafulla Samantara, India Rodrigo Tot, Guatemala See also Environmental Media Awards Global 500 Roll of Honour Goldman School of Public Policy Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment Heroes of the Environment Presidential Environmental Youth Awards Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement List of people associated with renewable energy References ^ Jump up to : Weise, Elizabeth ( 2010 - 11 - 30 ). `` Founder of Goldman Environmental Prize dies ''. USA Today. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 30. Jump up ^ `` Indian activist Ramesh Agrawal wins `` green Nobel '' for fight against coal mining ``. reuters. Retrieved 4 February 2015. Jump up ^ `` 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Beat ' Insurmountable ' Odds ''. Environment News Service. April 20, 2009. Jump up ^ `` Goldman Environmental Prize Creator Dies at 90 '', by The Associated Press via The New York Times, November 29, 2010 2 : 34 p.m. EST. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 29. 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Question: which indian awarded goldman environmental prize in april 2017
Answer: Prafulla Samantara