The Global 500 Roll of Honour was an award given from 1987 to 2003 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The award recognized the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world. A successor system of UNEP awards called Champions of the Earth started in 2005.
Awardees
Since the inception of the award in 1987, over 719 individuals and organizations, in adult and youth categories, have been honoured with the Global 500 award. Among prominent winners are:
Anil Agarwal, prominent environmentalist from India
Seth Sunday Ajayi, African conservationist, Nigerian scholar and wildlife expert
Stephen O. Andersen, prominent US environmentalist, for efforts on stratospheric ozone protection
Sir David Attenborough, producer of environmental television programmes
Idelisa Bonnelly, 1987 Dominican Republic marine biologist who created the first humpback whale sanctuary
Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway
Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States; later won the Nobel Peace Prize
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French marine explorer
Jane Goodall, of the United Kingdom, whose research on wild chimpanzees and olive baboons provided insight into the lives of non-human primates
Annelisa Kilbourn, British conservationist, veterinarian and wildlife expert
Gabriel Lewis-Charles, prominent environmentalist from St Lucia
Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, a Kenyan grassroots environmental organisation; later won the Nobel Peace Prize
Harada Masazumi, Japanese medical researcher heavily involved in the study of Minamata disease
Francisco "Chico" Mendes, Brazilian rubber tapper who was murdered during his fight to save the Amazon rainforest
George Monbiot, British journalist and researcher
Nikita Moiseyev, prominent Russian scientist, leading expert on nuclear winter
Ken Saro-Wiwa, environmental and human rights activist from Nigeria who was executed for leading the resistance of the Ogoni people against the pollution of their Delta homeland
Andrew Simmons, environmental activist and educator
Severn Suzuki, environmental activist
Lily Venizelos, Greek conservationist, founder and president of the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles