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PM Modi among six winners of United Nation’s Champions of the Earth Awards

Thursday September 27, 2018 8:31 AM, ummid.com News Network

PM Modi Champions of The Earth Award

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is among the six winners of the United Nation’s highest environmental honour, the ‘Champions of the Earth Awards’, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced Wednesday.

Modi along with French President Emmanuel Macron were recognised in the ‘Policy Leadership Category’ for their “pioneering work in championing” the International Solar Alliance and “new areas of levels of cooperation on environmental action”, the UN body said.

The other winners of the award include environmental and indigenous rights defender Joan Carling and the ‘Beyond Meat and Impossible Food’ in the Science and Innovation category for their popular, plant-based alternative to beef and “their efforts to educate consumers about environmentally conscious alternatives.”

China’s Zhejiang’s Green Rural Revival Programme was awarded for the Inspiration and Action for the “transformation of a once heavily polluted area of rivers and streams in East China’s Zhejiang province.”

The awards will be presented during the Champions of the Earth Gala in New York City, on the sidelines of the 73rd UN General Assembly, the UNEP said.

It is the UN’s highest environmental recognition “celebrating exceptional figures from the public and private sectors and from civil society, whose actions have had a transformative positive impact on the environment,” the UNEP noted.

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