Who can win the 2021 Nordic Council Environment Prize? - Announcement of nominations

The 2021 Nordic Council Environment Prize will go to a Nordic initiative that has made a special effort for sustainable food systems. The eight nominees will be announced by Iceland’s Minister for the Environment Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson and adjudication committee member and environment activist Rakel Garðarsdóttir at the Nordic House in Reykjavik at 11:30 on 3 September in connection with the Fundur fólksins democracy festival.  
 
Representatives from the Youth Council for Sustainable Development will share their views on sustainable production and consumption of food. 

In line with this year’s theme, food will be served sustainably in a greenhouse outside the Nordic House following the event.

This year, a record number of 138 suggestions have been put forward to the adjudication committee of the Nordic Council Environment Prize, for a total of 109 different initiatives from across the Nordic Region.  

Since 1995 the Nordic Council Environment Prize been awarded to raise awareness of environmental work in the Nordic Region. The prize goes to a company, organization or individual for exemplary efforts to integrate respect for the environment into their business or work or for some other form of extraordinary initiative on behalf of the environment. The prize is worth DKK 300,000.  The winner of the 2021 Nordic Council Environment Prize will be announced during the Session of the Nordic Council in Copenhagen on 2 November. 
 

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