Stock Photo - 29 October 2023, Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck: Steffi Lemke (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, M), Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, stands with award winners Friederike Otto (l), Professor Grantham Institute Climate Change and the Environment Imperial College London, UK, and Dagmar Fritz-Kramer, Managing Director Bau-Fritz GmbH & Co.KG, before the start of the German Environmental Award ceremony of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) at the Musik- und Kongresshalle. The German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) awards the German Environmental Prize every year in recognition of achievements that have contributed or will contribute in the future to the protection of the environment, climate, species and resources. The environmental prize is endowed with a total of 500,000 euros. This year, it goes to Friederike Otto, a climate scientist from Kiel who works in London, and to Dagmar Fritz-Kramer, a timber construction entrepreneur from the Allgäu region. Photo: Georg Wendt/dpa. - Lübeck/Schleswig-Holstein/Germany