Michael Mann receives World Sustainability Award
Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of the Earth System Science Center, Penn State. IMAGE: JOSHUA YOSPYN
BASEL, Switzerland — Michael E. Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State, will share the 2020 World Sustainability Award with Antonella Santuccione Chadha, co-founder and the CEO of the Women’s Brain Project and global medical manager for Alzheimer’s disease at Roche Diagnostics.
The World Sustainability Award encourages new initiatives and developments in sustainability with the ultimate aim to foster the transfer from sustainability research to sustainable practices and societies. In this spirit, sustainability is the interdependence between economic, social and environmental concerns for mutually beneficial regional and global development.
The award, funded by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation, is conferred upon individual researchers or research teams who have made an outstanding academic or societal contribution to sustainability in general or to a sustainability-relevant issue in particular. The award includes a monetary prize of $100,000, which will be divided between recipients. Mann is a virtual keynote speaker at the 8th Annual World Sustainability Forum, to be held Sept. 15 in Basel, Switzerland, and will receive the award then.