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Join one of the most compelling voices on biodiversity loss and climate change, and Chatham House Centenary Lifetime Award winner, Sir David Attenborough. As part of the institute’s centenary celebrations, the staff of Chatham House awarded our Centenary Lifetime Award to Sir David Attenborough, recognizing his tireless commitment to conservation and raising public and political awareness of the growing climate crisis. Sir David has pioneered the way in which we experience and understand life on this planet. He and his team have brought the wonders of the natural world to us through ground-breaking documentaries and most recently, his work has sounded the alarm on humanity’s devastating impact on the environment. At this special hybrid event Sir David Attenborough is presented with the award in front of an audience of staff, members and supporters both online and in person for a celebration of his work and achievements. The award presentation marks the first for Chatham House’s three Centenary Awards. Each acknowledges outstanding contributions to confronting the critical challenges facing the world today and pays tribute to those the institute’s staff believe have, through their activities, played a significant role in progressing the institute’s mission: to help governments and societies build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world. Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement and co-director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, will be presented with the Chatham House Centenary Diversity Champion Award on behalf of the movement at another event and Greta Thunberg will separately accept the Chatham House Centenary Changemakers Award in recognition of her vanguard role in mobilizing young people to take up climate activism.
