The Global Goalkeeper Award is given by
- A.the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- B.the United Nations Environment Programme
- C.the Kellogg School of Management
- D.the World Meteorological Organization
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The correct answer is A, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Global Goalkeeper Award is one of the Goalkeepers awards the foundation gives to leaders who advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The foundation launched its Goalkeepers campaign in 2017 to track progress on the 17 goals adopted in 2015, such as ending poverty and hunger and improving health. Each year, around the UN General Assembly in New York, it honours people whose work has moved those goals forward, with categories such as the Global Goalkeeper, Campaign, Progress and Changemaker awards. In 2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the Global Goalkeeper Award for the Swachh Bharat Mission, which built toilets across India. Option B is wrong because UNEP gives the Champions of the Earth award for the environment. Option C is wrong because the Kellogg School of Management is a business school at Northwestern University, not the giver of this award. Option D is wrong because the WMO gives awards such as the IMO Prize in meteorology. Exam tip: Global Goalkeeper Award, Gates Foundation, for SDG work; Champions of the Earth, UNEP.
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- A.Jimmy Carter
- B.Woodrow Wilson
- C.Barack Obama
- D.Al Gore
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