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Award Ceremony of the 2022 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity

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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

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The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are the ex-aequo winners of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity 2022.

The award ceremony will be attended by António Feijó, President of the Gulbenkian Foundation, Angela Merkel, President of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity jury, and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Portuguese Republic, ending with a concert by the Gulbenkian Orchestra.

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Programme

18:00 / Welcome remarks

António Feijó – President of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

18:15 / Jury Testimonial

Angela Merkel – President of the Jury of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity

18:30 / Winner’s Announcement and awarding of the medals

19:05 / Closing

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa – President of the Republic of Portugal

19:15 / Concert with Gulbenkian Orchestra

José Eduardo Gomes – Conductor

Bedřich Smetana

The Moldau

Igor Stravinsky

The Firebird

ABOUT THE AWARD

With a cash award of €1 million, the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity was introduced by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2020 to recognise people, groups of people or organisations from across the globe that make outstanding, innovative and impactful contributions to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity was awarded for the first time in 2020 to the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who, through the Greta Thunberg Foundation, distributed the prize money among several environmental and humanitarian projects in the ‘Global South’.

In 2021 the Prize was awarded to the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, the largest global alliance for climate leadership in cities, comprising more than 10,600 cities and local governments from 140 countries, including Portugal. The amount awarded by the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity was channelled towards energy transition and climate resilience in Africa, with large-scale projects being funded in five cities in Senegal (supply of drinking water) and in one city in Cameroon (development of energy efficiency solutions).

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