Alannah Acaq Hurley

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2026 Goldman Prize winner (North America)

In 37 years of awarding the Goldman Environmental Prize — often called the 'Green Nobel' — the six annual winners have never all been women. The 2026 cohort breaks that pattern, and does so with an unusually concrete set of results: a United Kingdom Supreme Court ruling that now requires climate impact assessments before fossil fuel permits, a South Korean Constitutional Court order forcing the government to strengthen emissions targets, an Environmental Protection Agency veto that blocked the largest proposed open-pit mine in North America, and a human rights complaint that compelled Rio Tinto to begin addressing environmental damage from a copper mine that helped trigger a civil war.

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