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India-born professor donates sustainability award money
Friday May 11, 2012 07:35:42 PM,
Arun Kumar, IANS
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Washington: India-born
professor Kamal Bawa has donated the entire prize money of one
million Norwegian Kronor (about Rs.10 million) from the world's
first major international sustainability award to the Indian
organisation he founded in 1996.
Bawa, distinguished professor of biology at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston, is the 2012 winner of the Gunnerus
Sustainability Award from the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences
and letters (DKNVS).
He gifted the prize money to the Bangalore-based Ashoka Trust for
Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), a research
institution in the areas of biodiversity conservation and
sustainable development. Bawa is its founder and president.
The Gunnerus Sustainability Award is given for outstanding
scientific work that promotes sustainable development globally,
and the first award was given to Bawa for his work on biodiversity
in Central America, the Western Ghats in India and the Himalayas.
At the acceptance ceremony in February, Bawa said it was
unfortunate that almost all money in international assistance goes
to projects rather than to strengthening institutions.
Standing by his belief that "it is institutions that transform
societies", Bawa donated the award money to ATREE.
"The gift is a fine example of philanthropy at its best. It also
endorses Bawa's commitment to a better world, and to ATREE," said
Pheroza Godrej, a member of the governing board of ATREE.
ATREE director Gladwin Joseph said: "The gift will help ATREE
address important environmental challenges. ATREE was recently
ranked No.9 globally, and No.1 in Asia among environmental think
tanks."
Bawa was recently elected to the prestigious American Academy of
Arts and Sciences for his contribution to public discourse and
public policy surrounding sustainability.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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