Global Environment and Climate Action Citizen Award

Highlights:

• The Global Environment and Climate Action Citizen Award was presented in Dubai.
• The prestigious Global Environment and Climate Action Citizen Award was presented to Surat’s noted industrialist Viral Desai.
• Viral Desai is popularly known as Greenman, because of his love for the environment.
• Sanskruti Yuva Sansthan presented the ‘Bharat Gaurav Samman’ to Viral Desai and other winners, at Dubai’s Atlantis, The Palm.
• 28 prominent personalities from 11 countries, namely the United Kingdom, the United States, France, New Zealand, and Malaysia, were felicitated with the prestigious awards.
• Viral Desai was the only Indian to won honour for climate action.

• Motivational speaker Padma Shri Gaur Gopaldas
• Polo player Ashvini Kumar Sharma
• Akshaya Patra Foundation’s chairman Padma Shri Madhu Pandit Dasa
• Instrumentalist Padma Bhushan Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
• Padma Shri Ramkishore Chhipa
• Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi
• Investor banker Saket Mishra and others.

• It is an environmental award, established by “Harvard Medical School Centre for Health and Global Environment”. 
• It is bestowed annually to an individual who is working to restore and protect global environment.
• Center for Health and the Global Environment
• It is located at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 
• The center works with the mission to help people in understanding that our health depends on the health of environment. 
• It was founded in 1996, for promoting a understanding of human health consequences because of global environmental change.