Climate Scientists Awarded Prestigious Blue Planet Prize
Environmental News Service -- June 20, 2010
TOKYO, Japan, (ENS) - Two prominent climate scientists - one from Great Britain and one from the United States - have been are the winners of the 2010 Blue Planet Prize, an international environmental award which is considered to be Japan's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
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Professor [Dr. Robert] Watson was chosen because of his significant part in providing scientific evidence for the depletion of the ozone layer in the 1980s, leading to the Montreal Protocol which banned ozone-depleting substances such as CFCs, and for his more recent role in bringing together science and policy to protect the global climate, as a former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Professor Watson said, " [...] It is a particular honor to receive it in the same year as James Hansen who has played a critical role in the climate change debate."
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