Environmental Award for Professor Klaus Toepfer and Dr. Peter Lueth, Pioneer for Biological Pesticides DBU honours international commitment and development of
4.10.2002, 08:29
OSNABRUECK 4. 10. 2002 (Germany) (ots/APROTEXT) - The new
prizewinners of the German Environmental Award have been
nominated. Presented by Federal President Johannes Rau the
Executive Director of the United Nations' Environmental Programme
UNEP and former Federal Minister for the Environment, Professor
Klaus Toepfer (64, Nairobi), and the Founder and Manager of the
Prophyta GmbH, Dr. Peter Lueth (46, Malchow/Mecklenburg West-
Pomerania), will be receiving Europe's best-endowed
environmental award, worth EUR 500,000 on October, 27 in
Magdeburg. The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) thus will be
honouring Professor Toepfer for his outstanding achievement in
international environmental protection as highest- ranking German
in the UN and Dr. Lueth for the development and production of
biological pesticides, mentioned DBU Secretary General Fritz
Brickwedde in a today's press release.
Please find a more detailed article on the DBU homepage
www.dbu.de.
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