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Zuzana Čaputová

Slovak environmental lawyer and later President of Slovakia; 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize winner

Slovakia · b. 1973

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Slovak lawyer who won a landmark case shutting down an illegal landfill in her home town of Pezinok, for which she received the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize. Served as President of Slovakia from 2019 to 2024.

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The power of this victory rests on the fact that it’s about public participation; a critical step in getting the landfills shut down. It was a personal mission as both landfills are very close to houses, and the area has high cancer rates – this is what motivated us to start the campaign.

Recorded Published Q&A on the Goldman Prize blog, Goldman Environmental Prize, 9 November 2016 source ↗

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