Environmental Award for Professor Klaus Toepfer and Dr. Peter Lueth, Pioneer for Biological Pesticides

DBU honours international commitment and development of biological products - Awarding ceremony on 27 October in Magdeburg

Osnabrueck, Germany (ots) - The new prizewinners of the German Environmental Award have been nominated. Presented by Federal President Johannes Rau the Executive Director of the United Nations' Environmental Programme UNEP and former Federal Minister for the Environment, Professor Klaus Toepfer (64, Nairobi), and the Founder and Manager of the Prophyta GmbH, Dr. Peter Lueth (46, Malchow/Mecklenburg West-Pomerania), will be receiving Europe's best-endowed environmental award, worth EUR 500,000 on October, 27 in Magdeburg. The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) thus will be honouring Professor Toepfer for his outstanding achievement in international environmental protection as highest-ranking German in the UN and Dr. Lueth for the development and production of biological pesticides, mentioned DBU Secretary General Fritz Brickwedde in a today's press release.

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