Published on : 12 Dec 2025, 7:01 am

Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, has been named as a UNEP ‘Champion of the Earth’ for 2025, according to a statement by the UN body.

Sahu has been awarded in the ‘Inspiration and Action’ category. The UNEP statement noted that Sahu is a pioneer in sustainable cooling and ecosystem restoration. Her initiatives have created 2.5 million green jobs, expanded forest cover, and integrated heat adaptation into infrastructure, benefiting 12 million people and setting a model for climate resilience, it added.

“Even as the planet heats up, the world’s cities are heating ever faster. Into these concrete jungles, Supriya Sahu has brought the cooling spray of nature, helping millions of people, among them thousands of schoolc

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