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.
THEME 2023
PREVIOUS WINNERS
The WIN WIN Award is an international award that has brought attention to outstanding contributions worldwide since 2000. The winners of the WIN WIN Award have created change, developed new innovations and game-changing policies, mobilised people and persistently worked for a more sustainable future. They go further than the rest of us. They endure a little more. They show us what is possible and guide us in the right direction.
PRIZE CUBES 2022 by STUDIO NEWTAB-22
Designers Hyein Choi and Jihee Moon are particularly drawn to natural and overlooked materials which they seek to bring to modern life through innovative design.
The WIN WIN Award Prize Cubes has the basic shape of a cube, but each year it is made of a different sustainable material. One year it might be seaweed, the next volcanic ash, the year after that, recycled ocean plastic – and so on, until one day, sustainability is so ingrained in our collective behaviour that there is no need for an award. The prize cubes are created in close partnership with our visionary branding agency HAPPY f&b.
AWARD NIGHT 2022
The annual award night celebrated the outstanding contributions of this year's winners of WIN WIN Award & WIN WIN Youth Award: Gårdsfisk and Sara Gutierrez Plata. Host this evening was Madeleine Jostedt Ulrici, Award Presenter star chef Monika Ahlberg, music by Juno Francis and Gothenburg Youth Choir, and decor by Karuscha Styling.
“For us, this partnership truly has been a WIN WIN. On the one hand, we contribute to drawing attention to and focusing on sustainability issues, and on the other hand, we gain increased knowledge through our membership.”
- Eva Halvarsson, Chief Executive Director at Andra AP-fonden
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a blueprint for achieving a better and more sustainable future for all. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that address the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice.
The WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award select a yearly theme connected to one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals. The 17 Goals are all interconnected, and in order to leave no one behind, we must achieve them all by 2030.