We are pleased to announce the winners of the Equator Prize 2012! Click "read more" to meet the new generation of local sustainable development solutions for people, nature and resilient communities.
Video footage, photos, and statements from the event Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Climate Change: Scaling Up Local Solutions to Achieve the MDGs. Learn more about this important event, held at the American Museum of Natural History in conjunction with the MDG Review Summit.
Meet the Equator Prize winning communities, and search our interactive map to access detailed case studies, winner profiles, videos, "photo stories" and more.
Media, video footage, photos and reports from the in-country award ceremonies rolling out across twenty countries. See how UNDP Country Offices are delivering national recognition for the Equator Prize 2010 winners.
Reporting from the Equator Initiative's eleventh community dialogue space. Daily journals, photos, presentations and more. See the statement delivered on behalf of all twenty-five Equator Prize 2010 winners to the first UN General Assembly Special Session on Biodiversity.
A consensus is emerging that many of our production systems for food, forest and wetland products are unsustainable--for people, for long-term food and fiber supply and for nature. Yet from su... Read More >>
On Thursday 20 October 2011, the Equator Initiative hosted a presentation by Mr. Mohammed Rezwan on the work of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha. This organisation won the Equator Prize in 2006 in recog... Read More >>
On Tuesday, 4 October 2011, the Equator Initiative hosted Tashka Yawanawá of the Yawanawá people of the Brazilian Amazon, to talk about his community's successes in advocating for change, conservi... Read More >>
