The Goldman Environmental Prize

Meet the 2026 #GoldmanPrize winners! 🌎🏆 ✨ Iroro Tanshi (Nigeria) ✨ Borim Kim (South Korea) ✨ Sarah Finch (United Kingdom) ✨ Theonila Roka Matbob (Papua New Guinea) ✨ Alannah Acaq Hurley (United States) ✨ Yuvelis Morales Blanco (Colombia) goldmanprize.org/2026

@insideclimate Thank you for recognizing these phenomenal leaders. 🎉🌎

This year’s Goldman Environmental Prize cohort is the first in the award's history to be composed entirely of women. Among the recipients is Colombian activist Yuvelis Morales Blanco, recognized for her grassroots mobilization against fracking. insideclimatenews.org/news/20042026/…

@francediplo_EN @ColombiaNoFrack It's an honor to recognize Yuvelis! 💚

Yuvelis Morales Blanco is the 2026 #GoldmanPrize winner for South & Central America! 🌎🏆 Yuvelis and @ColombiaNoFrack helped prevent commercial fracking from entering Colombia, protecting the Magdalena River. 👉 Learn more: bit.ly/4eyzquJ

Alannah Acaq Hurley is the 2026 #GoldmanPrize winner for North America! 🌎🏆 Alannah and @UnitedTribes_BB mobilized a coalition of Indigenous nations, NGOs, and others to defeat the Pebble Mine megaproject, protecting Alaska’s Bristol Bay. 👉 Learn more: bit.ly/4mm2szD

Theonila Roka Matbob is the 2026 #GoldmanPrize winner for Islands & Island Nations! 🌏🏆 Theonila compelled mining giant Rio Tinto to address environmental & social devastation caused by its Panguna mine in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. 👉 Learn more: bit.ly/4cAoY4y

Sarah Finch is the 2026 #GoldmanPrize winner for Europe! 🌍🏆 Sarah and the Weald Action Group won a historic UK Supreme Court ruling that requires fossil fuel projects in the UK to account for their full climate impact. 👉 Learn more: bit.ly/3OQZnez

Borim Kim is the 2026 #GoldmanPrize winner for Asia! 🌏🏆 Borim and @youth4climatekr secured Asia’s first youth-led constitutional climate victory, mandating significant reductions in emissions in South Korea. 👉 Learn more: bit.ly/3Oi3GQ1

.@IroroTanshi wins the 2026 #GoldmanPrize for Africa! 🌍🏆 Iroro and @smaconbats launched a community-led campaign to protect the endangered short-tailed roundleaf bat, safeguarding communities and forests from wildfires in Nigeria. 👉 Learn more: bit.ly/4tVtfFv

The 2026 @goldmanprize winners will be announced on Monday, April 20! ✨ Watch the ceremony live on the #GoldmanPrize YouTube channel on Monday, April 20, at 5:30 pm PDT / 8:30 pm EDT. goldmanprize.org/ceremony #ChangeStartsWhereYouStand

Our @UNDP-implemented @theGEF-funded @GEF_SGP, knows that work #ForPeopleForPlanet starts with local action. 2026 @goldmanprize is right around the corner. Tune in April 20 for live ceremony honoring environmental leadership: goldmanprize.org/ceremony #ChangeStartsWhereYouStand

The 2026 @goldmanprize is right around the corner! Tune in Monday, April 20 for the live ceremony honoring environmental leadership that begins local. Winners will be announced on the #GoldmanPrize YouTube channel at 5:30pm PDT. goldmanprize.org/ceremony #ChangeStartsWhereYouStand

Save the date! 🌎🏆 The 2026 #GoldmanPrize is Monday, April 20. Goldman Prize winners prove that you don’t have to cross oceans to find environmental leadership—you might find it next door. Meaningful change is always within reach. #ChangeStartsWhereYouStand

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Let's give thanks for our Earth. 🌍🍂 For the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil that feeds us. Let’s protect what sustains us.

Congratulations to 2017 #GoldmanPrize winner from Solvenia Uroš Macerl! 👏

🌿Nature is our backyards, our neighborhood parks, and the air we breathe. As we enter the weekend, let's remember that #nature isn't a destination—it's everywhere.

🌏 On the ground last week at the @OHCHRAsia & @UNEP_AsiaPac Environmental Human Rights Defenders Forum in Chiang Mai, Thailand 🌏 Eight #GoldmanPrize winners were in attendance, representing India, Australia, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Mongolia. #EHRDF2025

Rizwana Hasan, #GoldmanPrize winner & Bangladesh's environmental advisor, writes that the Global South needs more than vague pledges from #COP30—it needs accountable financing mechanisms to thrive. 🌏 👉 Read her op-ed in @ProSy: bit.ly/493tG9O @Cop30noBrasil

“Our fight is for the future of our Mother Earth... There is no Planet B." As #COP30 begins in Brazil, Alessandra Korap Munduruku @Alkorap1, Indigenous leader & 2023 #GoldmanPrize winner, is gracing the cover of @voguebrasil. glo.bo/4qRDutH