Awards

Awards for Polly Higgins

• Overall Champion, 2012 People and Environment Awards (PEA)
• 2012 speaker at the Rachel Carson 2012 Memorial Lecture, PAN-UK
• Finalist, Most Influential Leader, Climate Week Awards, 2012
• The People’s Book Prize (non-fiction) for Eradicating Ecocide, 2011
• Voted one of the World’s Top 10 Visionary Thinkers by the Ecologist Magazine

Awards for Eradicating Ecocide

• Making Ecocide a Crime was selected as one of the 20 Solutions for a Sustainable Future by the 6th World Youth Congress 2012, which took place in Rio de Janeiro 4-13th June, just before the historic UN Conference on Sustainable Development. (Rio+20)
• Ecocide restorative justice sentencing nominated for a CEDR award in “Best communication or publication”

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