• Forest Conservation Groups in Nepal and Guatemala Win 2011 UNEP Sasakawa Prize
• UNEP Sasakawa Prize opens: US $200,000 for innovative green project
• 2009-10 Sasakawa Prize winners bring light and heat to communities in Latin America, Africa and India
• Bringing Renewable Energy to Remote Communities: Projects from Peru and Lao PDR Share Prestigious Environment Award
• Two outstanding projects against climate change receive the 2007 UNEP Sasakawa Prize in New York
• 2006 UNEP Sasakawa Prize Laureates Honoured
• Combatants of Global Desertification Win Key Environment Prize [English] [Français]

• 2010-11 - Mr. Yohei Sasakawa's Speech
• 2010-11 - Remarks by Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• 2010-11 - MDI Nepal Acceptance Speech Delivered by Khop Shrestha
• 2010-11 - AFISAP Guatemala Acceptance Speech Delivered by Milton Garcia [English] [Español  ]
• 2009 Acceptance Speech - Sameer Hajee of Nuru Design
• 2009 Acceptance Speech - Stuart Conway of TWP
• 2009 Speech - Takeju Ogata of The Nippon Foundation

2010-11 UNEP Sasakawa Prize Award Ceremony
The 2010-11 UNEP Sasakawa Prize Award Ceremony, Nairobi, Kenya

2009-10 UNEP Sasakawa Prize Laureate: Nuru Design
Nuru Design brings clean, affordable lighting solutions to rural communities in Rwanda, Kenya and India with portable, rechargeable LED lights. The lights can be recharged by solar panel or by human power using the world’s first commercially available pedal generator. The reduction in kerosene expenses saves households up to USD$8 per month per household.

2009-10 UNEP Sasakawa Prize Laureate: Trees, Water and People
Trees, Water and People (TWP) collaborates with local NGOs to distribute fuel-efficient cook stoves which burn 70% less wood, saving families US$1 - $5/day, and decrease harmful carbon emissions by 1 tonne CO2eq/year per stove for domestic users. The project also includes reforestation efforts which to date account for the planting of three million trees in Latin America.

2008 - Midnight Sun- Sunlabob Rural Energy
Sunlabob Rural Energy is bringing energy to remote rural communities in Lao PDR, a country where just 48 per cent of the population has access to grid electricity, mostly in cities and town. Through Sunlabob, over 1,800 solar-home-systems (SHS) and 500 solar lanterns are being rented to families in 73 different villages across Lao PDR.

2008 - Power To The People- Practical Action
Practical Action is working in Peru’s eastern Andes where 68 percent of the population- around 5million people- do not have access to electricity.The project makes use of the region’s vast potential for hydroelectricity: to date, 47 micro-hydro schemes have been installed in the area through practical Action, bringing clean power to about 30,000 people.

• 2010-11 UNEP Sasakawa Prize Award Ceremony
• 2009 UNEP Sasakawa Prize Award Ceremony
• 2009 UNEP Sasakawa Prize Co-Laureates
• 2008 UNEP Sasakawa Prize Awards
• 2007 Winner - Shidhulai Swaonirvar Sangstha
• 2007 Winner -Jeunesse Park
• 2006 Winner - Tenadi Cooperative of Mauritania
• 2006 Winner - Mr. Rodrigo Vivas Rosas
• UNEP Sasakawa Prize presentation ceremony to honour the 2006 Prize Laureates