Shortlist For $1 Million Alcan Sustainability Prize Released

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Alcan and International Business Leaders Forum have announced the shortlist of candidates for the $1 million Alcan Prize for Sustainability for 2007. Ten organizations were selected from a field of over 155 entries from 53 countries around the world.

The prize recognizes contributions to the goal of economic, environmental, and social sustainability by not-for-profit, non-governmental, and civil society organizations

The Alcan Prize for Sustainability 2007 shortlist is:

- Centro de Servicios Educativos en Salud y Medio Ambiente (CESESMA), Nicaragua

- FARM-Africa, UK

- Institute of Integrated Rural Development, Bangladesh

- Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat, India

- Los Ninos, USA

- M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India

- Ningxia Center for Environment and Poverty Alleviation, China

- Rural Development Institute, USA

- The Natural Step Foundation, Sweden

- Utthan Centre for Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation, India

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