Mayor Jochen Partsch congratulates the award winners

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Mayor Jochen Partsch welcomed the winners of this year’s German Environment Prize from the German Federal Environment Foundation, Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese and Prof. Dr. Dr. hc congratulates Hans Joosten who accepted the award on Sunday, October 10th, from Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in the Darmstadt Science and Congress Center darmstadtium. The prize is rewarded with prize money of 500,000 euros.

“For the magistrate of Wissenschaftsdarmstadt, environmental and climate protection and the achievement of climate goals are two of the most important goals of our government work. We are all the more pleased that the German Federal Environment Foundation has chosen the darmstadtium as the venue for its award ceremony this year, ”explains Mayor Jochen Partsch. “I warmly congratulate this year’s award winners Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese for her cutting-edge research on the importance of biological diversity for planet and man and Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Hans Joosten for his decades of scientific work on moors as climate protectors and thus to their contributions to more climate justice in our society and I am sure that their ideas and findings will further promote and advance climate protection in Germany. “

The German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU) awards the German Environment Prize in the amount of 500,000 euros every year in October on a statutory basis. The award is one of the most valuable environmental awards in Europe. This year the award will be presented at a ceremony in the darmstadtium. A hygiene concept was developed for the ceremony together with the event hall and in consultation with the Darmstadt Health Department.

Background:

Awarding the German Environment Prize is one of the most important tasks of the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU). The award goes to people whose performance and commitment make a decisive and exemplary contribution to protecting and preserving the environment – now and in the future. The prize is awarded every year and can be divided between several prize winners.

The award honors people whose innovative products, technical process improvements, successful research results or their entire life cycle are under the sign of sustainable environmental protection. Together with this year’s award winner, 71 individuals or teams have already received the German Environmental Award since 1993.

These include, for example, scientists such as Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius, as director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) jointly responsible for the research expedition MOSAiC and the climate researcher Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Entrepreneurs such as Ursula Sladek, who set up Germany’s first green electricity provider with the Schönau electricity company, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gunther Krieg, who, together with UNISENSOR Sensorsysteme GmbH, developed a process for separating and recycling material flows and who made politicians and well-known personalities such as the former Federal Minister a. D. Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, the former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prof. Dr. Hannelore “Loki” Schmidt and the animal filmmaker Hon.-Prof. Heinz Sielmann.

(Text: PM Magistrat Darmstadt)

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