The Nature and Environment Prize, worth DKK 350,000, will be awarded for the sixteenth time, and this year's theme is green asset management. Among the candidates are the financial institution Ekobanken (Sweden), Cultura Bank (Norway), Mercury Andelskasse (Denmark) and Sampo Bank (Finland).

One of the more unusual candidates, considering the theme, is film director John Webster and his documentary film Recipes for Disaster. Webster filmed his family in an attempt to live for a year without products made from oil.

The environment prize will be awarded to a Nordic individual, company, organisation or medium, which has managed in an exemplary way to directly or indirectly make an impact on the financial markets, the asset management industry, banks or consultants, and encouraged them to adopt a long-term perspective and integrate sustainability into their asset management.

Of the fifteen candidates a handful will go forward to the second round in the spring. The Adjudication Committee will make their decision and announce the prize winner at their meeting in May. The actual prize will be awarded to the winner in conjunction with the Nordic Council Session in Reykjavik in the autumn.

The Nature and Environment Prize is one of four awarded by the Nordic Council – the others are for literature, film and music. Last year's Nature and Environment Prize went to the Swedish school project "Rain or Shine (“I Ur och Skur”).

The Nature and Environment Prize Secretariat is based in the Danish Parliament. Denmark's delegation to the Nordic Council is in charge of the practical issues related to the prize.

Further information about the Nordic Council Nature and Environment Prize:

Dennis Barndorph Lind
Phone + 45 3337 3836
Email dennis.lind@ft.dk