The 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

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2024 GOLDMAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE WINNERS

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2024 GOLDMAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE WINNERS

BRAZIL

Marcel Gomes

Marcel Gomes coordinated a complex, international campaign that directly linked beef from JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, to illegal deforestation in Brazil’s most threatened ecosystems, leading six major European supermarket chains to indefinitely halt the sale of JBS products in 2021.
AUSTRALIA

Murrawah Maroochy Johnson

Murrawah Maroochy Johnson blocked development of the Waratah coal mine, which would have accelerated climate change in Queensland, destroyed the nearly 20,000-acre Bimblebox Nature Refuge, added 1.58 billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere over its lifetime, and threatened Indigenous rights and culture.
INDIA

Alok Shukla

Alok Shukla led a successful community campaign that saved 445,000 acres of biodiversity-rich forests from 21 planned coal mines in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. In July 2022, the government canceled the 21 proposed coal mines in the Hasdeo Aranya forests.
SPAIN

Teresa Vicente

Teresa Vicente led a historic, grassroots campaign to save the Mar Menor ecosystem—Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon—from collapse, resulting in the passage of a new law in September 2022 granting the lagoon unique legal rights.
UNITED STATES

Andrea Vidaurre

Andrea Vidaurre’s grassroots leadership persuaded the California Air Resources Board to adopt, in 2023, two historic transportation regulations that significantly limit trucking and rail emissions—including the nation’s first emission rule for trains and a path to 100% zero emissions for freight truck sales.
SOUTH AFRICA

Sinegugu Zukulu & Nonhle Mbuthuma

In September 2022, Indigenous activists Nonhle Mbuthuma and Sinegugu Zukulu stopped destructive seismic testing for oil and gas off South Africa’s Eastern Cape, in an area known as the Wild Coast.

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Alok Shukla

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