Blue Planet Prize
The 2021 #BluePlanetPrize Winners are Prof. Ramanathan (USA), who investigated non-CO2 pollutants (SLCPs) & Prof. Munasinghe (Sri Lanka), who pioneered Sustainomics framework which views development issues from environment, social, & economic perspectives.
This prize was established in the year 1992 by Asahi glass foundation ,Japan.It is the biggest prize in the field of environment with prize more than 500000 USD which is even greater than the nobel prize of environment "the goldman prize".No wonder why it is callec the biggest prize in environment.
There is very interesting story behind it's naming, and here it is,
Most of us know that Yuri Gagrin in april 12, 1961 went to space.When he looked down to earth it looked bluish in colour.Later in year 1992, at the conference of Rio de
Janerio Asahi glass foundation named the biggest prize of environment "blue planet prize" due to this reason.
Since then it has motivated a lot of environmentalist to help conserve nature since global warming is the biggest threat for all living beings survival.
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