São Paulo – The United Arab Emirates’ Zayed Sustainability Award is accepting entries for its 2022 edition. The award is designed to provide funding to innovative projects in different categories, including projects by schools. Submissions will be accepted until May 5, 2021 via the Award website.
Organizers pushed back the 2021 award ceremony as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Entrants will automatically compete in the 2022 edition. “I trust that the Prize will once again attract the world’s best sustainability innovators, whose work today, is even more imperative to support the transition to the post-COVID-19 world, for both people and nations alike,” a press release quoted UAE minister of Industry and Advance Technology and Zayed Sustainability Award director general Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber as saying.
The Award’s categories are Health, Food, Energy, Water, and Global High Schools. Brazil’s Escola SESI Djalma Pessoa, in Salvador, Bahia, was a runner-up in 2020.
The winner in each category gets USD 600,000, with total prizes amounting to USD 3 million. The Global High Schools category awards USD 100,000 each to six world region winners – the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Europe & Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia & Pacific.
The winners will be announced in 2022 during an award ceremony within the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW).
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
