Meet the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Meet the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Seven environmental activists from around the world will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 21. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize,” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the six inhabited continental regions. This year’s winners include a scientist and educator who fought illegal trafficking of Italian household waste to Tunisia; an electrical engineer who campaigned to protect a region in the Gobi Desert from mining for copper …

This award recognizes activists for "their ongoing and significant efforts to protect and improve the environment." It was awarded to American Laurene Allen, who has been campaigning in the United States for nearly ten years against pollution to the PFAS, the eternal pollutants.

Tunisian Environmental Activist, Semia Gharbi, wins 2025 Goldman Prize for challenging waste trafficking between Italy and Tunisia

Semia Gharbi, a Tunisian Environmental Activist, has been awarded the 2025 Goldman Prize for challenging corrupt waste trafficking schemes between Italy and Tunisia, resulting in the return of 6,000 tons of illegally exported household waste back to Italy, its country of origin, in February 2022. This momentous award was announced on April 21 in San