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ENVIRONMENTAL SYNERGY. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan hopes to turn a $500,000 prize for environmental leadership into a foundation to promote agriculture and women's education in Africa. Last week, Annan received half of the Zayed Prize, funded by the crown prince of Dubai, for launching the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment project (Science, 1 April 2005, p. 41). A $300,000 slice of the biennial $1 million prize went to the global assessment project itself, and the remaining $200,000 to panel co-chairs Angela Cropper and Emil Salim, the former Indonesian environmental minister.

Annan first emerged as an environment champion at the 2002 world summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has stood out among environment advocates for his focus on "the link between ecosystems and long-term economic health," says James Sniffen of the U.N. Environment Programme in New York City.

Previous Zayed winners include former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and Nigerian climate scientist Godwin Obasi, co-founder of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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