Past winners are:

• Award Winner 2011
  The 2011 Gothenburg Award is equally shared by Kofi Annan and the Tigray Project in Ethiopia. Read more here.
• Award Winner 2010
  The Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development in 2010 goes to two prominent persons who have in different ways strongly contributed to solutions for sustainable relations with our oceans. The prize, one million Swedish crowns, will be divided equally between Ken Sherman from the USA and Randal Arauz from Costa Rica
• Award Winner 2009
  The 2009 Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development is shared in three equal parts by:
  Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Tanzania, Enrique Peñalosa, Bogotá, Colombia och Sören Hermansen, Samsö, Denmark.

• Award Winner 2008
  The 2008 Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development is shared in three equal parts by: Theo Colborn, Margot Wallström and Jan Ahlbom and Ulf Duus from Göteborg.
• Award Winner 2007
  The Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development 2007, a sum of one million Swedish crowns, has been awarded to Mr. Al Gore who more than any other person has led mankind to a deeper understanding of our serious situation – and what politicians, business leaders and all of us can and must do.
• Award Winner 2006
  The three Japanese engineers Takeshi Uchiyamada, Takehisa Yaegashi and Yuichi Fujii, for their outstanding, goal-oriented and vital contributions to the development of Prius, the world’s first commercial hybrid automobile of which more than half a million have been sold thus far. (2006)
• Award Winner 2005
  The Maraba Cooperative Abahuzamugambi in Rwanda for its pioneering work to produce coffee with methods that are sustainable from a social, financial and environmental standpoint. (2005)
• Award Winner 2004
  Joan Bavaria, USA, and Tessa Tennant, Great Britain, who are pioneers in the field of “sustainable investments”. Through their investment companies and funds they have inspired companies to take make ethically and the environmentally responsible investments. (2004)
• Award Winner 2003
  Swedish Hans Eek and German Wolfgang Feist for the technology and methods to build houses without heating systems – so called “passive houses”. (2003)
• Award Winner 2002 Former Prime Minister of Norway, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, for her contributions to coining the expression “sustainable development”. (2002)
• Award Winner 2001
  Ecolabelling organisations FSC and KRAV for their work to introduce sustainable development to farming and forestry. (2001)
• Award Winner 2000
  Business leader and entrepreneur Geoffrey Ballard for his contributions to commercialising fuel cell technology. (2000)