Green Innovators Receive Young Environmental Leader Award
Four students from Ecuador, Indonesia, Kenya and the Philippines have received the 2011 Young Environmental Leader Award for their innovative sustainable development projects.
The award ceremony was held on the final day of the Young Environmental Envoy Programme, co-organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Bayer. The week-long programme brought together 47 young environmental leaders from 18 developing countries for an environmental study tour in Germany, which focused on waste management, forests, renewable energy and other issues.
Each Young Environmental Envoy is involved in a sustainable development project in his or her home country. The projects put forward by the four winners of the Young Environmental Leader Award were judged to have the most potential impact. read on
University of Nairobi student, Michael Muli, 19, has been named as the co-winner of the 2011 Young Environmental Leader Award during the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)-Bayer Young Environmental Envoy Programme. He was named one of the four top winners of the coveted prize in Leverkusen, Germany, last Friday. The Environmental and Bio-systems Engineering student, received the award for his green energy project, which aims to replace firewood and charcoal as cooking fuel in households with briquettes (compressed round blocks) made from dried foliage, sawdust and waste paper. read on
UN agency honours four students for innovative environmental projects
A small bioreactor that can be used in household cooking and eco-friendly fuel briquettes made out of dried foliage and waste paper are among four projects – all designed by young students – that are being honoured with a United Nations award for environmental innovation.
Indonesia’s Sara Rudianto, Ecuador’s María Rosa Reyes Acosta, Kenya’s Michael Muli and Mary Jade Gabanes of the Philippines have received the 2011 Young Environmental Leader Award for their projects, the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) announced yesterday in Leverkusen, Germany.
The quartet, who will each receive €3,000 and technical support in their home countries to make their projects sustainable, were chosen by a panel of judges from UNEP, a non-governmental organization (NGO) and the chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate Bayer. read on
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