Sir David Attenborough Gets Coveted UNEP Champions of the Earth Award 2021.

Why in news?

• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has named Sir David Attenborough, English natural history broadcaster and naturalist, as the recipient of the Champions of the Earth Award 2021 under the Lifetime Achievement category, for his dedication to research, documentation, and advocacy for the protection of nature and its restoration.

About Sir David Attenborough

• Sir David Attenborough is well known for his innovative educational television programs, especially the nine-part Life series forming the Life collection.
• His well-known documentaries include The Green Planet and A Plastic Ocean.
• His noted works include the Life series: Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The Trials of Life (1990) and others.
• The year 2022 marks the 50 years since the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden, which was one of the first international meetings on the environment.

UNEP’s Champions of the Earth Awards

• The UNEP’s Champions of the Earth Awards honours individuals, groups, and organizations whose actions have a transformative impact on the environment.
• This is the United Nations(UN)’s highest environmental honour.
• Since its foundation in 2005, the Champions of the Earth award has honoured 101 laureates, including 25 world leaders, 62 individuals and 14 organizations.