The Volvo Environment Prize Foundation, which is located in Switzerland, declared that the Chinese glaciologist and climate scientist Dr. Qin Dahe has been awarded the Volvo Environment Prize, and commended his contribution to the climate change. 

The bulletin, which issued by the judging panel on the same day, says Dr. Qin Dahe made an important contribution to the assessment report of climate change of IPCC. Otherwise, he participated in the assessment report of global extreme disaster, and the report caused wide public concern. 

The assessment report of global extreme disaster, which issued last year, has very important significant. The report reveals the relationship of the extreme weather and the climate change, and puts forward the theory: the extreme weather becomes more and more frequent at last 50 years. 

Dr. Qin Dahe is the chief professor in the field of cryospheric sciences. He first put forward the theoretical framework of the cryospheric sciences in the world, and used it to guide the study of the cryospheric change and its effects. One of his research key regions is the cryosphere in arid regions of Central Asia, especially the important influece to regional water resources and the ecosystem. Dr. Qin Dahe is also a geographer of CAREERI (Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute) and the co-chairman of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). 

The Volvo Environment Prize was founded in 1988; it awarded the people who made outstanding contributions to the environmental protection and sustainable development. It is the most powerful prize in the field of global environment and sustainable development, and it is praised as the “Nobel Prize” in the field of sustainable development. The winner will obtain 1.5 million Swedish krona (about two hundred thousand dollars). This year’s award dinner will held on Nov. 26 in Stockholm. 

The official website of the Volvo Environment Prize: http://www.environment-prize.com/ 

Dr. Qin Dahe