The award recognizes outstanding inventors who create new solutions to real-world problems.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

adaptations,coastal protections Among a host of necessary need to be built, crops threatened by drought need to be modified, health care needs to be stepped up, and new clean energy solutions need to put in place.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

The goal is to come up with substantive, but workable solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions,promote new, eco-friendly technologies, but also promote economic growth and investment and help the less developed nations to adapt to these new conditions.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09