Global 500 Roll of Honour
The United Nations Environment Programme established the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1987 to recognize the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world.
The last Global 500 Roll of Honour awards were made in 2003. 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 both the adult and youth categories, have been honoured with the Global 500 award. Among prominent winners are:- Anil Agarwal, the prominent environmentalist from India.
- 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. He 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
- Gabriel Lewis-Charles, the prominent environmentalist from St Lucia.
- Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, a Kenyan grassroots environmental organisation. She later won the Nobel Peace prize.
- Harada Masazumi, Japanese medical researcher heavily involved in the study of Minamata disease.
- Francisco "Chico" Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper who was murdered during his fight to save the Amazon rainforest.
- George Monbiot, British journalist and researcher.
- Stephen O. Andersen, prominent US environmentalist, for efforts on stratospheric ozone protection
- Nikita Moiseyev a prominent Russian scientist, leading expert on consequences of nuclear war - "nuclear winter".
- Ken Saro-Wiwa, the 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
| Name | Year | Category Adult/Youth | Organization/ Individual | Country |
| Robert Redford | 1987 | Adult | Individual | USA |
| National Geographic Society | 1987 | Adult | Organization | USA |
| Soichiro Honda | 1987 | Adult | Individual ' | Japan |
| Green Belt Movement, Womenaid International | 1987 | Adult | Organization | United Kingdom |
| Greenpeace International | 1988 | Adult | Organization | Netherlands |
| Jimmy Carter | 1988 | Adult | Individual | USA |
| Calestous Juma | 1993 | Adult | Individual | USA |
| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | 1994 | Adult | Individual | United Kingdom |
| Paul Josef Crutzen | 1996 | Adult | Individual | Germany |
| BBC World Service Education Department | 1997 | Adult | Organization | United Kingdom |
| Jane Goodall | 1997 | Adult | Individual | India / USA |
| The Nation | 1997 | Adult | Organization | Thailand |
| Sylvia Earle | 1998 | Adult | Individual | USA |
| Greening Australia | 1998 | Adult | Organization | Australia |
| Feodor Konyukhov | 1998 | Adult | Individual | Russia |
| Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov | 1998 | Adult | Individual | Russia |
| Don Merton | 1998 | Adult | Individual ' | New Zealand |
| Verna Simpson | 1999 | Adult | Individual | Australia |
| Toyota Motor Club | 1999 | Adult | Organization | Japan |
| C. P. Krishnan Nair | 1999 | Adult | Individual | India |
| Fuji Xerox Australia | 2000 | Adult | Organization | Australia |
| Conservation Volunteers Australia | 2000 | Youth | Organization | Australia |
| Laurel Springs School | 1990 | Adult | Organization | USA |
| Paul Winter | 1987 | Adult | Individual | USA |
| Anil Agarwal | 1987 | Adult | Individual ' | India |
| Daphne Sheldrick | 1992 | Adult | Individual ' | United Kingdom |
| Haller Park | Adult | Organization | Mombasa |