Dr Andreas Schild Memorial Mountain Prize 2024 ($2,500 prize)

ICIMOD is seeking to find champions of nature in the region, reward their work, and accelerate their impact by raising their profile, through their annual Dr Andreas Schild Memorial Mountain Prize. In 2022, the Prize was renamed the Dr Andreas Schild Memorial Mountain Prize in honour of former ICIMOD Director General Andreas Schild, a champion of the mountains of the world and the HKH region, whose impact remains in the hearts of those in the HKH whose lives he touched during his long and illustrious career.

What happens in the HKH region has huge implications for the people and the rest of the world. The snow, ice, and permafrost originating in the HKH provide water to 240 million people in the mountains and a further 1.65 billion people downstream. With the climate crisis already devastating communities across the region, ICIMOD is working to build the public and political will for faster action and greater climate ambition. This Prize is an effort to empower change and champion resilience in the face of the climate crisis.

Prizes of Memorial Mountain Prize

Two prizes each worth USD $2,500 will highlight key contributions in:

• The restoration and conservation of Water and Mountain Landscapes
• Excellence in Climate Communication, in journalism, film, digital communications or campaigning, or podcasts

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Eligibility for Memorial Mountain Prize

• Nominees must be exemplary individuals working with ICIMOD partners, demonstrating a history of grassroots engagement in the Regional Member Countries (RMCs).
• Submissions should reflect visible impact and inspiring stories with the potential for scalability and sustainability.

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Nomination

If you know a changemaker working at the grassroots in HKH nations (Nepal, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, or Afghanistan), nominate them today!

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