Stock Photo - 29 October 2023, Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck: Tobias Goldschmidt (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, l-r), Schleswig-Holstein's Minister for Energy Transition, Climate Protection, Environment and Nature, award winner Friederike Otto, Professor Grantham Institute Climate Change and the Environment Imperial College London, UK, Kai Niebert, DBU Board of Trustees Chairman, Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD), Federal President, Alexander Bonde, Secretary General of the DBU, and award winner Dagmar Fritz-Kramer, Managing Director Bau-Fritz GmbH & Co.KG, stand on stage during the presentation of the German Environmental Award of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU). The German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) awards the German Environmental Prize every year, recognizing 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