Köhler: “The World we Live in is Larger Than the Consumer World”

AUGSBURG, Germany -

- German President Presents the DBU’s German Environmental Award in Augsburg - 1,200 Guests

The German Environmental Award of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU Osnabrück) has been conferred for the 17th time. The 500,000-euro prize, the most lucrative environmental award in Europe, is being shared in 2009 by the entrepreneurs Petra Bültmann-Steffin (39, Neuenrade) and Dr. Carsten Bührer (39, Rheinbach), scientist Prof. Bo Barker Jørgensen (63, Bremen) and the honorary chair of the Bund für Umwelt- und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Dr. Angelika Zahrnt (65, Neckargemünd). At the award ceremony in the Kongresshalle in Augsburg today, German President Horst Köhler stressed that the prize-winners in 2009 exemplified three key areas that would be decisive over the next few decades: science, technology and economic change. Köhler: “We are on the threshold of a new era dominated by concerns of ecology and sustainability. Today we are laying the foundations for our well being tomorrow. Countries can no longer look after their own fortunes at the cost of others; they all have to bear in mind the equilibrium of the world. I very much hope that the delegations that will meet at the global climate conference in Copenhagen at the start of December are aware of this responsibility.”

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Source: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

Contact: Franz-Georg Elpers - Pressesprecher - Anneliese Grabara, Stephanie Kassing, Kontakt DBU: An der Bornau 2, 49090 Osnabrück, Telefon: +49(0)541-9633521, Telefax: +49(0)541-9633198, presse at dbu.de