10 October 2002: Volvo has presented its Environment Prize 2002 to Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta and Professor Karl-Göran Mäler to recognise their pioneering research within environmental and resource economics. The prize is an honorarium of E164,000.

The Volvo Environment Prize is being awarded for the thirteenth time. It was established in 1989 to highlight Volvo’ support for pioneering environmental research and since then has gained the status of being one of the world’s most important, international environment prizes.

This year marks 30 years since Volvo become the first company to make a public statement on environmental issues and since it began its focus on making the environment one of the company’s three core values