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 newprizewinners of the German Environmental Award have beennominated. Presented by Federal President Johannes Rau theExecutive Director of the United Nations' Environmental ProgrammeUNEP and former Federal Minister for the Environment, ProfessorKlaus Toepfer (64, Nairobi), and the Founder and Manager of theProphyta GmbH, Dr. Peter Lueth (46, Malchow/Mecklenburg West-Pomerania), will be receiving Europe's best-endowedenvironmental award, worth EUR 500,000 on October, 27 inMagdeburg. The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) thus will behonouring Professor Toepfer for his outstanding achievement ininternational environmental protection as highest- ranking Germanin the UN and Dr. Lueth for the development and production ofbiological pesticides, mentioned DBU Secretary General FritzBrickwedde in a today's press release.
Please find a more detailed article on the DBU homepagewww.dbu.de.
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