Final call: Nominations for the Nordic Council Environment Prize 2025
The DKK 300,000 Nordic Council Environment Prize 2025 will go to an initiative that involves everybody in the green transition. The Environment Prize focuses on a new theme each year. In 2025, it is the contribution civil society is making to green transition.
Society can make rapid and significant progress when we all stand together and work towards a common goal. Time is of the essence for the environment, protecting nature and making the green transition happen, none of which is possible without an active and fully engaged civil society.
Anybody can submit nominations
Know a Nordic company, organisation or individual who deserves the Nordic Council Environment Prize? Submit your nomination by 30 April.
How the winner is chosen
The winner of the Nordic Council Environment Prize is chosen by a three-step process:
- Open nominations
- National committees submit nominations (one or two)
- The Adjudication Committee meets and picks the winner.
The nominees will be announced on 27 June during the Almedal Week in Sweden. The prize statuette will be handed over at a ceremony during the Session of the Nordic Council in Stockholm in October. The winner will receive DKK 300,000.
30th anniversary
The Nordic Council Environment Prize marks its 30th anniversary in 2025. The very first winner of the prize, in 1995, was the Swedish researcher Torleif Ingelög for his work on preserving biodiversity in agriculture and forestry. Since then, the prize has been awarded a total of 30 times to everything from outdoor associations, three banks, several start-ups, an energy company and a number of researchers. In 2019, the prize was awarded to Greta Thunberg from Sweden, who chose not to accept it as a protest about the lack of action on the climate.
The Nordic Council Environment Prize was first awarded in 1995 with the aim of raising awareness of work on the environment in the Nordic Region. The Council also awards annual prizes for literature, children and young people’s literature, music and film.
