Ethecon Foundation is a German environmental organisation, which describes itself as a "foundation for ethics and economy". Founded in 2004, Ethecon started presenting annual awards, the Blue Planet Award which is given for actions deemed to be protecting the environment, and conversely the Black Planet Award given to those deemed to be destroying it, in 2006. The foundation has initiated campaigns against Monsanto, Nestlé, Blackwater and TEPCO and has contributed to the construction of a self-governing children's hospital in Fukushima, which commenced operation in 2013.
Blue Planet Award recipients 2006 – Diane Wilson, environmental activist 2007 – Vandana Shiva, environmental activist 2008 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela 2009 – Uri Avnery, Israeli peace activist 2010 – Elias Bierdel, human-rights activist 2011 – Angela Davis, political activist 2012 – Jean Ziegler, human-rights activist 2013 – Esther Béjarano, Holocaust survivor 2014/15 – Tomo Križnar, Slovenian peace activist 2016 – Huberto Juárez Núnez, Mexican social activist 2017 – Hanna Poddig, german environmental activist 2018 – Ann Wright, US peace activist 2019 – Rachna Dhingra, Indian human rights activist 2020: Phyllis Omido, environmental and human rights activist from Kenya 2021: Aminata Dramane Traoré, peace and human rights activist from Mali
Black Planet Award recipients 2006 – Monsanto 2007 – Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of Nestle, and Nestle shareholder Liliane Bettencourt were chosen by the Ethecon Foundation because in their opinion Nestle had engaged in "irresponsible marketing of baby-food, genetic engineering and the monopolizing of water." 2008 – Xe Services. The award was delivered in person to Erik Prince, CEO of Xe Services at the time. 2009 – Formosa Plastics Group and its CEO, Lee Chih-tsuen. Former Blue Planet winner Diane Wilson travelled to Taiwan to deliver the award in person. 2010 - BP for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill 2011 – Tokyo Electric Power Company for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 2012 – Glencore Xstrata along with Ivan Glasenberg (CEO), Simon Murray (Chairman) and Tony Hayward (committee for environment, health and safety) 2013 – (the CEO and major shareholders of) Deutsche Bank 2014/15 – CEOs Andrew Liveris and James Ringler and major shareholders of Dow Chemical Company 2016 – CEOs Muhtar Kent and James Quincey and major shareholders of The Coca-Cola Company, Warren Buffett and Herbert Allen Jr. 2017 – CEOs Armin Papperger and Ulrich Grillo and major shareholders of Rheinmetall, Larry Fink (Black Rock) and Paul Manduca 2018 – CEOs Herbert Diess and Hans Dieter Pötsch and major shareholders of Volkswagen, Wolfgang Porsche and Stephan Weil 2019 – CEO and company founder José Batista Sobrinho as well as major shareholders of worlds biggest meat processing company JBS S.A., Wesley Mendonça Batista and Joesley Mendonça Batista 2020: Jeff Bezos, founder of the online retailer Amazon 2021: Markus Krebber (Chairman of the Executive Board), Werner Brandt (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Larry Fink (major shareholder/ BLACKROCK) and Armin Laschet (major shareholder/Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia) of the coal and nuclear power company RWE AG (Germany)
See also
List of environmental awards
References
External links Official website