Though President Donald Trump lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize this year, he’s clinched a consolation Nobel of sorts.
The president was awarded a special recognition medal on Dec. 5 from the Nobel Sustainability Trust, a Switzerland-based organization launched by members of the prominent Nobel family that’s independent of the better-known Nobel prizes.
The sustainability trust awarded Trump “in recognition of contributions the organizers credited to his environmental and sustainability-focused initiatives,” the trust announced in a news release.
The award comes after the Trump administration has spent its first months in office scrapping many of the environmental and climate change regulations enacted by the Biden administration, drawing the ire of environmentalists. It follows the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award its peace prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado after Trump had lobbied for the prize. Trump was also awarded a new FIFA peace prize in the wake of the Nobel Peace Prize snub.
