Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement 2026 ($250,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: May 2, 2025

Applications are open for the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement 2026. The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is the world’s longest operating and most prestigious annual environmental award. Often referred to as the “Nobel Prize for the environment,” the Prize is awarded yearly to scientists, ecologists, economists, policymakers, or organizations which have delivered environmental options with measurable international influence.

Prize

• Recipients of the Tyler Prize are honored in a ceremony during which they’re offered with the Tyler Prize medallion, plaque, and an award of USD $250,000.

Eligibility

• Nominations and nominees are welcome from any part of the world.
• The work of nominees is anticipated to:
  • Be primarily based on robust science, together with pure and/or social sciences
  • Address international inequalities and options
  • Demonstrate measurable and scalable influence(s) on coverage and/or follow
  • Demonstrate engagement with youthful generations

Nomination

Make certain you might have the next details about your nominee earlier than you get began: 

• Full names, addresses, electronic mail addresses and phone numbers of nominee and nominator. 
• A one to 2-web page abstract of the person’s or group’s accomplishments, discovery, enchancment, or different contribution for which the award is proposed, together with hyperlinks to acceptable web sites and works.
• A listing of three to five people who can be prepared to offer reference letters if the nomination is superior to the brief listing. Include a contact identify, group, and electronic mail deal with for every reference. References will probably be anticipated to offer particular details about the influence of the nominee’s work in addition to the opposite standards for the Prize. 
• Where the nominee is a person (slightly than an establishment), submit a brief Curriculum Vitae (CV) and embody hyperlinks, if obtainable, to acceptable publications, studies, and web sites that includes the distinctive contribution(s) for which the nomination is being made.
• Where the nomination for a corporation, present a brochure or datasheet, hyperlinks to the web site, all related knowledge, and any extra info in help of the nomination.
• All nomination paperwork have to be assembled into one doc, in both Microsoft Word or PDF format.
• All file names should embody the identify of the nominee and nomination yr (e.g. JoannaSmith2026, ACME2026).

Nominations shut on 11:59 (ET), May 2, 2025. Nominators whose nominees advance to the brief listing will probably be notified by June 20, 2025.

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For extra info, go to Tyler Prize.