WIN WIN GOTHENBURG SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award reward and encourage outstanding solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today. The award of 1 million SEK has been presented yearly since 2000 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with previous winners including Kofi Annan, Al Gore, Gro Harlem Brundtland and IPBES.
The award is a non-profit organisation financed by the City of Gothenburg, Region Västra Götaland and several member organisations and companies. The winner is appointed by an independent jury containing members with diverse backgrounds within academia, politics and civil society. The jury selects a yearly award pertaining to current global relevance and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
WIN WIN AWARD 2022
WINNERS 2022
Meet this year's winners for both our international awards:
WIN WIN Award & WIN WIN Youth Award, theme: Sustainable Aquaculture.
GÅRDSFISK
SWEDEN
WIN WIN AWARD
Gårdsfisk conducts integrated aquaculture by farming fish in closed systems on land with the vision of producing the world's most sustainable fish!
By breeding tropical omnivorous fish that can utilise more plant-based ingredients in their feed, fast-growing animals can be bred with low environmental impacts.
SARA GUTIERREZ PLATA
COLOMBIA
WIN WIN YOUTH AWARD
Researcher Sara Gutierrez Plata is deeply engaged in restoring the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, damaged by climate-change induced high water temperatures, acidity and overfishing. She has developed methods for low intensity restocking of the Caribbean King Crab that graze detrimental algae covering damaged reefs.
NEWS
22-09-01
SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE ON THE MENU IN SKÖVDE
WIN WIN Award teamed up with Skövde municipality's meal department and Coop Väst for the project “Under ytan till Grytan” / “Under the surface to the pot” to engage the citizen’s in sustainable aquaculture.
22-08-26
SWEDISH GÅRDSFISK AND COLOMBIAN RESEARCHER SARA GUTIERREZ PLATA IS THE 2022 RECIPIENTS OF WIN WIN AWARD AND WIN WIN YOUTH AWARD
The 2022 winners of the WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award and the WIN WIN Youth Award are now offical. The prestigious awards are given to Swedish fish farm Gårdsfisk and to researcher Sara Gutierrez Plata of the Fisheries Institute in Mexico respectively. The prize sum totaling over SEK 1 million will be presented at the WIN WIN Award gala in Gothenburg, Sweden on October 21st.
22-08-08
WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT AT FRIHAMNSDAGARNA
On Friday the 26th of August the winners of the WIN WIN Award and WIN WIN Youth Award will be announced online and on stage at Frihamnsdagarna - the new Swedish arena for democracy. With about 300 nominations from all over the world, the juries have decided on two outstanding winners.