The Council of Europe 2020 North-South Prize was awarded on December 9 at the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic.
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The North-South Prize has been awarded every year since 1995 to two candidates (activists, personalities or organizations) who have distinguished themselves by their exceptional commitment to promoting solidarity between North and South.
Climate change research rewarded
In 2021, the award was won by the Mediterranean Expert Network on Climate and Environmental Change (MedECC) for the first-ever scientific assessment of the impact of climate and environmental change on the Mediterranean basin. Wolfgang Cramer (Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale, IMBE, AMU/CNRS/IRD/Avignon Université) and Joël Guiot (Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement, CEREGE, AMU/CNRS/IRD/INRAE/Collège de France), representatives of the MedECC, received the award from Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal.
The MedECC is made up of over six hundred scientists from 35 Mediterranean and European countries involved in environmental research and policy planning.
Article originally published in Lettre d'AMU, December 2021.
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