{"id":33124,"date":"2021-08-27T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=33124"},"modified":"2021-08-30T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T14:56:28","slug":"who-can-win-the-nordic-council-environment-prize-2021","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/who-can-win-the-nordic-council-environment-prize-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Who can win the Nordic Council Environment Prize 2021?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Nordic Council Environment Prize 2021 will go to a Nordic initiative that has made a special effort for sustainable food systems. The 8 nominees will be announced by Iceland\u2019s\u00a0Minister for the Environment <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gu\u00f0mundur Ingi Gu\u00f0brandsson and\u00a0 adjudication committee member and environment activist Rakel Gar\u00f0arsd\u00f3ttir at the Nordic House in connection to the democracy festival Fundur f\u00f3lksins. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Representatives from the Youth Council for Sustainable Development will share their views on sustainable production and consumption of food.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This year, a record number of 138 suggestions have been put forward to the Nordic Environment Prize adjudication committee, for a total of 109 different initiatives from across the Nordic Region.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Since 1995 the Nordic Council Environment Prize\u00a0been\u00a0awarded to\u00a0raise awareness of environmental work in the Nordic Region.\u00a0The prize goes to a company, organization or individual for exemplary efforts to integrate respect for the environment into their business or work or for some other form of extraordinary initiative on behalf of the environment.\u00a0The prize is 300.000 DKK.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The winner of the 2021 Nordic Council Environment Prize will be announced during the Session of the Nordic Council in Copenhagen 2 November.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun Highlight  BCX0 SCXW6196570\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun  BCX0 SCXW6196570\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.norden.org\/en\/environmentprize\">More info<\/a> about the prize<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nordic Council Environment Prize 2021 will go to a Nordic initiative that has made a special effort for sustainable food systems. The 8 nominees will be announced by Iceland\u2019s\u00a0Minister for the Environment Gu\u00f0mundur Ingi Gu\u00f0brandsson and\u00a0 adjudication committee member and environment activist Rakel Gar\u00f0arsd\u00f3ttir at the Nordic House in connection to the democracy festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32602,"template":"","event-categories":[462,99],"class_list":["post-33124","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-festivals","event-categories-the-nordic-region-in-focus","event_tags-fundur-folksins-en","event_tags-nordic-council-environment-prize","event_tags-nordic-region-in-focus","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/33124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=33124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}