Award for Best Television News and Current Affairs Coverage
BBC1 Ten O'Clock News – Climate Change
The 10 items showcased in the BBC News entry spanned a formidable range of angles and locations. Each engaged the viewer with clarity and high-impact visuals. The approaches to each were sufficiently varied and the reporting was excellent. In particular, the items on industrialisation in China, urban heat islands and new solar power technologies set out well-presented arguments and information.

Best Television Documentary
Granada and KQED Public Television – China – Shifting Nature
China - Shifting Nature featured many of the people inside China who are taking a stand on environmental issues, and showed at first hand the powerful political tensions that this is creating. The judges really admired the diligence and rigour of this documentary team in getting under the skin of the issue and meeting real voices in China’s environmental battles.

Award for Journalist of the Year
Fiona Harvey
Fiona Harvey’s landmark, two-month investigation for the Financial Times - which saw through the smokescreen of carbon-trading and carbon-offsetting - uncovered widespread fraud, profiteering, market manipulation and malpractices by companies and individuals. It promoted a government investigation, and businesses vowed to change their carbon offset practices. Whether recounting how she shared croissants with Al Gore, highlighting the importance of clean water and sanitation in the third world, or dispatching an alien ladybird with a Cornish pasty crust, Fiona Harvey did it in style.

Award for Newspaper of the Year
The Guardian
The Guardian is positive and upbeat in its coverage of environmental issues. Whereas some papers trade in scaremongering, The Guardian excels in pointing to solutions and profiling people all over the world who are making a difference. Special supplements such as its Green Living Guide, and practical action points within features inspire its readers to alter their lifestyle. The paper also campaigns for change at local, national and global levels. There is a refreshing lightness and humour in many of its personal and opinion pieces. The choice of photographs and graphics, and the use of 'fact boxes' make the subjects accessible and complement the high quality of the writing.

Award for Best Coverage by a Magazine
Sunday Times Magazine
The Sunday Times Magazine offered a fresh slant on some contemporary issues - the impact of pollution and fishing on our coastline; the ways in which man might seek to reverse the damage he has done to the planet; and a literal picture of the future the Earth may face as our climate changes. As the most generalist of the nominees, it was interesting to see how the Sunday Times Magazine made each of these complex topics highly accessible, and also how it shed light on potential solutions.

Award for Best Radio News or Current Affairs Programme
BBC Radio 4 Costing the Earth – Mermaids Tears
Mermaids' Tears was a compelling story about the impact humans have on our marine environment. It outlined often casual acts that have profound consequences. Great visuals were conjured up by a strong soundtrack and the title of the programme encapsulated the problem beautifully. Mermaids' Tears may have come at the tipping point for this issue so it was particularly apposite that it offered practical solutions for both individuals and industry.

Best Website
Surfers Against Sewage - www.sas.org.uk
The website for Surfers Against Sewage, an organisation that campaigns for clean and safe recreational waters, impressed the judges with its clarity of purpose; its willingness to reach out to a variety of audiences; and the enthusiasm and emotion it brought to its campaign message, which is passionate and focused.

Best Campaign
People and Planet – Green League 2007
People and Planet developed the 'Green League' to rate almost all UK universities according to clear environmental and social criteria. This campaign had a strong strategy and clear objectives but very limited resources. It involved imaginative tactics such as the clever use of a league table. It succeeded in dragging environmental issues from the fringes and making them a central concern for many Vice Chancellors. As a result, the judges look forward to seeing a real shift in the environmental performance of universities in the coming years.

Andrew Lees Memorial Award
Rebecca Hosking
Nominated and judged by the environmental media, this award was given to Rebecca Hosking, an inspirational campaigner who was shocked by the effects of plastic waste on marine life, which she witnessed while making a documentary film in the Pacific. When she came home she persuaded all the shopkeepers in her home town of Modbury to ban plastic bags. The town's example caught imaginations across the country and worldwide and the movement is now growing rapidly.

Awareness Award
Ma Jun
Ma Jun is one of China's leading green campaigners. His work not only raises awareness of the environment but also proposes achievable solutions. Originally an investigative journalist, he rapidly gained a reputation through his hard-hitting reports on the Chinese environment, which appeared in the South China Morning Post from 1993 to 2000. His book, China's Water Crisis, has been described by Time magazine as 'China's first great environmental call to arms'. He has since founded the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, which is among those leading the charge to clean up the air and rivers of China - a monumental task. The NGO also names and shames hundreds of companies whose pollution records exceed national limits. This extraordinary man has not only helped raise awareness of the environment in a determined and unique way, but has also proposed achievable solutions to overcome some of the world's most pressing pollution problems. Ma Jun is one of China's most powerful advocates for a green and clean environment, and WWF commends him as the well-deserved recipient of the Awareness Award.