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The Zayed Sustainability Prize has officially announced that the 2022 edition is now open for submissions and that entries started to be accepted from November 18 until May 6, 2021, via the Prize’s online portal -— across five sustainability categories: Heath, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools.
Applicants that had submitted for now postponed 2021 cycle will be entered into the 2022 edition.
Commenting on the launch of the 2022 awards cycle, Dr Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Director-General of the Zayed Sustainability Prize, said, “As a catalyst for change and positive transformation, the Zayed Sustainability Prize continues its drive to empower small and medium enterprises and non-profits, while encouraging youth to take on an active role in supporting their communities and becoming future sustainability leaders.”
Dr Al Jaber added, “The Prize reflects our founding father Sheikh Zayed’s lifelong commitment to sustainability and is backed by a track record of incentivising pioneers who are advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals. 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.”