For more than 20 years the Rainforest Alliance has honored and celebrated the accomplishments of exemplary individuals and businesses that have demonstrated dedication, innovation and a commitment to the global environment.
Past Gala Honorees/Co-chairs
2019
- Community Leadership Award
Klasik Beans Cooperative - Lifetime Achievement Award
Roberto Hernández and Family - Special Tribute
Richard Zell Donovan, Senior Forest Advisor
2018
- Community Leadership Honoree
The Cocoa Farmers of the Juaboso-Bia Region of Ghana - Sustainable Standard-Setters
The Original Bradford Soap Works Inc.
Colombian Coffee Growers Federation
Volcafe/Kyagalanyi Coffee Ltd
Patagonia - Sustainability Champion Award
Thomson Reuters Foundation - Sustainable Pathfinders
McDonald’s
New Britain Palm Oil Limited - Lifetime Achievement Award
Chris Wille
2017
- Community Leadership Award
Felisa Navas Pérez - Corporate Sustainability Champions
- People and Planet Champions
- Sustainable Development Champions
2016
- Global Standard-Setter
Government of Norway - Community Leadership Award
Juana Payaba Cachique - Sustainable Standard-Setters
Clearwater Paper Corporation
Clif Bar - Supply Chain Partnership Award
The Kroger Co. - Co-Chairs
Avery Dennison
Breyers
2015
- Lifetime Achievement Award
Marina Silva, Former Minister of the Environment of Brazil - Sustainable Standard-Setters
Avery Dennison
Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate
Breyers
CMPC Forestal Mininco
Fibria - Co-Chairs
Costa Rica Tourism Board
Mattel, Inc.
2014
- Lifetime Achievement Award
Paul Polman, Chief Executive, Unilever - Sustainable Standard-Setters
C.F. Martin & Co., Inc.
Livia Firth, Founder and Creative Director of Eco-Age Ltd
Grupo JD
Mattel, Inc.
McLeod Russel India Limited
Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.
Nell Newman, Co-Founder and President of Newman’s Own Organics
Nova Scotia Landowners and Forest Fibre Producers Association
Oriflame Cosmetics
Sabre - Co-Chairs
AMResorts
Olam International Ltd. - Honorary Chair
Gisele Bündchen
2013
- Sustainable Standard-Setters
AMResorts
Barry Callebaut AG
IndoTeak Design
Kapawi Ecolodge & Reserve
Kingfisher plc
NESCAFÉ
Olam International Ltd.
Tata Global Beverages - Co-Chairs
Blommer Chocolate Company
Bloomberg
2012
- Sustainable Standard-Setters
La Arboleda Community Mill
Blommer Chocolate Company
Bloomberg
Fazendas Reunidas Vale do Juliana SA
The Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal
Global Environment Facility
Marks and Spencer Group plc
The Nabob Coffee Company
Posada Amazonas Lodge by Rainforest Expeditions
Staples - Co-Chairs
Ecom Group
Mars, Incorporated
2011
- Sustainable Standard-Setters
Costa Coffee
The Kenco Coffee Company
Mars, Incorporated
Mayakoba Tourism Development and Its Three Hotels:
– Fairmont Mayakoba, Rosewood Mayakoba, Banyan Tree Mayakoba
Mayan Palms
Eric Poncon
Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales – Comisión Nacional Forestal de México - Co-Chairs
Columbia Forest Products
Mexico Tourism Board
2010
- Sustainable Standard-Setters
Pierrick Chouard of Vintage Plantations Chocolates
Columbia Forest Products
Côte d’Or
Glenn Jampol and Teresa Osman of Finca Rosa Blanca Coffee Plantation and Inn
JD Wetherspoon
Kenya Tea Development Agency
Willamette Valley Vineyards - Co-Chairs
Luigi Lavazza S.p.A
Suzano Pulp and Paper
2009
- Community Sustainable Standard-Setter
Napo Wildlife Center, Comunidad Kichwa Añangu - Corporate Sustainable Standard-Setters
Green Hotels of Costa Rica
Suzano Pulp and Paper - Corporate Green Globe Awardees
Allegro Coffee Company
Drie Mollen Group
National Envelope
Unilever-Lipton Tea - Individual Green Globe Award
Becky McKinnon - Co-Chairs
Ecuador Ministry of Tourism
Gloria Jean’s Coffees - Honorary Chair
Gisele Bündchen
2008
- Lifetime Achievement Award
HRH The Prince of Wales - Corporate Sustainable Standard-Setters
Mohawk Fine Papers
NatureAir - Individual Sustainable Standard-Setter
Toshishige Nakagoshi, Yusuhara Forest Owners’ Cooperative - Corporate Green Globe Awardees
Gloria Jean’s Coffees
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
HSBC
Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. - Co-Chairs
JPMorgan Chase
Nestlé Nespresso SA
Potlach Corporation
2007
- Lifetime Achievement Award
R.E. Turner - Corporate Sustainable Standard-Setters
Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén
Lapa Rios
Masisa
Potlatch Corporation - Corporate Green Globe Awardees
Caribou Coffee Company, Inc.
Nestlé Nespresso SA - Co-Chairs
Chiquita Brands International
Kraft Foods Inc.
UCC Ueshima Coffee Company, Inc.
David Refkin, Time Inc.
2006
- Corporate Sustainable Standard-Setters
The Grupo Roda
Pictorial Offset Corporation - Individual Sustainable Standard-Setters
Roberto Llach and Diego Llach of Wild Forest Coffee - Corporate Green Globe Awardees
ECOM / Atlantic (USA)
Horizontes Nature Tours
National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia
UCC Ueshima Coffee Company, LTD - Individual Green Globe Award
Art Wolfe - Co-Chairs
Domtar
Luigi Lavazza S.p.A
2005
- Corporate Sustainable Standard-Setters
Candlewood Timber Group LLC
Favorita Fruit Company
The Forestland Group LLC - Individual Sustainable Standard-Setters
Santiago Dunn, Ecoventura
Grupo Kachalu
Luis Pascoal, DaTerra
Tom Quadracci, Quad/Graphics - Corporate Green Globe Award
Kraft Foods Inc. - Individual Green Globe Award
Alan Knight - Co-Chairs
ECOM/Atlantic USA
Tembec
2004
- Corporate Sustainable Standard-Setters
Anderson-Tully
Domtar
Klabin
Precious Woods
Tembec - Individual Sustainable Standard-Setters
Jameson French, Northland Forest Products
Sergio Madrid, Consejo Civil Mexicano para Silvicultura Sostenible
Jonathan E. Martin, Roy O. Martin Lumber Management - Corporate Green Globe Awardees
FedEx Kinko’s
IKEA - Individual Green Globe Awardees
Michael E. Conroy, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (formerly with the Ford Foundation)
David Refkin, Time Inc. - Co-Chairs
Roger Dower, Forest Stewardship Council-US
Henry Juszkiewicz, Gibson Musical Instruments
2003
- Corporate Sustainable Standard-Setter
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters - Individual Sustainable Standard-Setters
Everardo & Astrid Bernstorff, coffee farmers
Martin and Alex Keller, coffee farmers
Alicia Morales, President, La Union Cooperative
Holly and Dieter Nottebohm, coffee farmers
Francisco and Carlos Ralda, coffee farmers - Corporate Green Globe Awardees
Balzac Brothers & Co.
D.R. Wakefield & Co.
Thanksgiving Coffee Company
VOLCAFE GROUP - Individual Green Globe Awardees
Hans Jöhr, Nestlé
Mary Williams, Starbucks Coffee Company - Co-Chairs
National Coffee Association
Neumann Kaffee Gruppe
Specialty Coffee Association of America
2002
- Sustainable Standard-Setter
Gibson Guitar Corporation - Green Globe Awardees
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Victor Lichtinger, Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico
Judith P. Sulzberger, M.D. - Co-Chairs
Daniel Katz
Joel Katz
Robert Kistinger
2001
- Sustainable Standard-Setter
Chiquita Brands International - Green Globe Awardees
John Michael Forgach, President and CEO, A2R Fund Management
Sarah Yamina Ifrah, Young Environmentalist - Co-Chairs
Jeremy Grantham
David L. Hendrickson
2000
- Conservationist Couple Green Globe Awardees
Chevy and Jayni Chase - Corporate Green Globe Awardees
Ben & Jerry’s
Nickelodeon - Co-Chairs
Kerri Anderson-Corn
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick
Alec Baldwin
Dr. Judith Sulzberger
Alan Wilzig and Karin Koenig
1999
- Arts & Nature Green Globe Award
Alec Baldwin - Conservation Green Globe Award
Ellen Futter, President of the American Museum of Natural History - Corporate Green Globe Awardees
AT & T
Kafus Environmental Industries - Co-Chairs
Brad Allenby
Henry Juszkiewicz
Harry Karmen
Michael McCabe
Ann Ziff
1998
- Arts & Nature Green Globe Award
Olivia Newton-John - Conservation Green Globe Award
Dr. Alison F. Richard - Corporate Green Globe Award
Ermenegildo Zegna - Co-Chairs
Jeff Bewkes
Bianca Jagger
Ann Ziff
1997
- Amway
Thomas Eisner, Professor, Cornell University
Rodrigo Gámez, Director INBio
John Hendricks, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Discovery Communications, Inc.
Island Press
Bianca Jagger, Human Rights and Environmental Advocate
J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc.
Henry Muller, Editorial Director, Time Inc.
George Page, Host, Narrator and Executive Editor, WNET “Nature”
Luke Sanchez, Young Environmentalist - Co-Chairs
Kelly Chapman and Ron Meyer
Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
Ann and Bill Ziff
1996
- Walter Cronkite
- Ally Award
Gerry Ellis, Nature Photographer - Co-Chairs
John Hendricks
Henry Juszkiewicz - Honorary Co-Chairs
Ann and Bill Ziff
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Tuner
1995
- R.E. Turner
- Ally Award
Claudette Mo, Director, Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica - Co-Chairs
Daniel H. Stern
Dirk E. Ziff - Honorary Co-Chairs
Ann and Bill Ziff
1994
- Peter Matthiessen
- Ally Award
Maria José González, Fundación Interamericana de Investigación Tropical - Co-Chairs
Adelaide de Menil Carpenter
Thomas Guinzburg
George Plimpton
Rose and Bill Stryon
Tamsen Ann Ziff
1993
- Dr. Jane Goodall
- Special Corporate Award
Ziff Communications Company
1992
- Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy