Pavan Sukhdev, Founder-CEO of GIST Advisory and member of the GGKP Advisory Committee, has been awarded the prestigious Asahi Glass Foundation's Blue Planet Prize. The Blue Planet Prize was established in 1992, the year of the pivotal Earth Summit, and is awarded to individuals or organisations for their outstanding contributions toward solving global environmental problems.
Each year, the Asahi Glass Foundation announces two winners of the Blue Planet Prize. In addition to Mr. Sukhdev, Markus Borner of Switzerland has also been selected as an award recipient. The awards ceremony will be held at the Palace Hotel Tokyo in Tokyo on 16 November 2016. Commemorative lectures will be delivered by the prize recipients at the United Nations University in Tokyo on the following day. Both recipients will receive a cash award of 50 million yen.
Pavan Sukhdev
Pavan Sukhdev is an UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, a founding trustee of the Green Indian States Trust (GIST), the founder & CEO of GIST Advisory and an associate fellow of Davenport College at Yale University. He was selected for his pioneering research into economic rationale and practical metrics for transitioning towards an inclusive green economy. He has drawn attention to the critical roles of corporations in this transition and has shown how to mainstream ecosystem services for improved public policies and business practices. By developing sustainability metrics for corporations on both local and national levels, he has hastened the evolution toward an inclusive green economy. Learn more about Mr. Sukhdev here.