India-born climate researcher honoured with top science prize in The Netherlands

New Delhi, Jun 17 : Climate Change researcher Joyeeta Gupta, professor of Environment and Development at the University of Amsterdam, has been picked for the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific honour in The Netherlands.
The 1.5 million euros Spinoza Prize, sometimes referred to as the Dutch Nobel, would be awarded to her in October, a statement said. The prize comes just days after Delhi-born Gupta, along with some of her colleagues at Earth Commission, released one of its kind report that sought to define safe planetary thresholds for a range of environmental issues beyond climate change including biodiversity, ocean acidification and aerosols. The report, published in Nature, found that seven of the eight thresholds it had defined had already been crossed. Gupta's interdisciplinary research work focuses on the interconnections between climate crisis, water problems and justice. “I am extremely honoured. The scientists who have won this award in the past represent the absolute best of Dutch academia, so I am proud to be considered alongside them,” Gupta said in a statement.