The German Environmental Award recognizes commitment and achievements that make a decisive and exemplary contribution to the protection and preservation of our environment now and in the future. The award, which is endowed with 500,000 euros, is aimed at people whose innovative products and technical process improvements, successful research results or lifetime achievements are characterized by sustainable environmental protection. In 2024, peatland researcher Dr. Franziska Tanneberger and electrical engineer Thomas Speidel were awarded the DBU’s German Environmental Award. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented the awards on October 27, 2024 in the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz.
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🎥 Recording of the award ceremony
📷 Photos of the award ceremony
Here you can find further information on the award winners, the criteria for the German Environmental Award, sustainability at the ceremony, the award nomination process, the jury and the symposium held as part of the German Environmental Award.
Blog on the German Environmental Award
Would you like to find out more about our award winners and the DBU German Environmental Award?
You can read and listen to the latest information, portraits, interviews, sound bites and background texts in our Environmental Award blog at www.dbu.de/umweltpreis-blog. (German language)
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The symposium for the German Environmental Award 2024
A symposium on a different environmental topic is held every year before the award ceremony. Experts from various disciplines discuss these topics with specialists from DBU projects and present their research findings. The topic of the 2024 symposium was “How do we finance the transformation? Towards a climate-neutral economy and society”.
🎥 Recording of the 2024 symposium
📷 Photos of the 2024 symposium