Mohan Munasinghe, a senior adviser with the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership, has been awarded the 2021 Blue Planet Prize in recognition of his pioneering work in solving global environmental and sustainability problems, which is considered equivalent to an “Environmental Nobel Prize”. He is known for having developed the “Sustainomics” framework at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, which applies trans-disciplinary, holistic thinking to make development more sustainable. He is also known for identifying the balanced inclusive green growth (BIGG) path to achieve sustainability and proposing the novel idea of Millennium Consumption Goals (MCGs).