By PR Newswire and Winnie Kamau.
In the impressive conference center of the Milad Tower rising over Tehran’s roofs, the 16th Energy Globe World Awards have been handed over in an international gala. The project from Iran won in which waste water is recycled, energy produced, agricultural land is created and emissions are reduced in a single process.
Tehran’s Vice President Mrs. Masoumeh Ebtekar who received the award in her speech referred to the importance of such awards for outstanding environmental projects and their implementation. “This event is the starting signal for intensified efforts concerning sustainability in Iran which is underlined by an expansion program for Renewables and energy efficiency”. Minister of Women & Child Development of India Mrs. Maneka Gandhi who was in attendance emphasized. “A sustainable change in our world can’t be achieved by talks or laws but only by taking action as showed by the Energy Globe submissions”.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and presenter Prof. Munasinghe said. “It is necessary that poor and rich countries take each other’s hand in order to exchange experiences and support each other”.
3 nominees respectively from all 5 continents competed in the 5 categories Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Youth. The nominees have been chosen from around 2000 submissions from 177 countries.
The Five categories that won include: A program from Ethiopia which was won the in the category Earth shows how to make arid soils fertile again with appropriate know-how and commitment and therefore creating the basis for life.
A lighting project from the Philippines which lightens up the huts of the poorest by means of water bottles and bleach prevailed in the category Fire.
In the category Water 2 winners were chosen: A project from Tehran implementing a holistic wastewater treatment plant for the 12 m city as well as a project from Tanzania in which water is sterilized and cleaned with do-it-yourself ceramic filters to become drinking water for thousands of people.
The category Air showed a clear victory for a project from Switzerland which supplies branches of the chain by means of the first electric powered lorry worldwide.
And in the category Youth the winner was a project from Belize allowing only young people to participate in a football tournament who have implemented an environmental project earlier.
The Energy Globe World Award was a celebration for the environment, a venue for successful environment protection and a global departure into the century of sustainability.
