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

Osnabrueck, Germany (ots)

DBU honours international commitment and development of biological
   products - Awarding ceremony on 27 October in Magdeburg
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.
Please find a more detailed article on the DBU homepage
www.dbu.de.

Contact:

DBU
An der Bornau 2
49090 Osnabrueck
Franz-Georg Elpers
Tel. +49/541/9633-521
Fax +49/541/9633-198
mailto:fg.elpers@dbu.de