On June 3, 2026, Audubon gathered conservation leaders, neighborhood advocates, and supporters at its annual Environmental Management Awards Profit in Greenwich, honoring Roberta Barbieri with the Environmental Management Award and Anne W. Semmes with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Environmental Leadership Awards Benefit celebrates native visionaries who’ve demonstrated distinctive management and dedication to defending birds and the locations they want.
As Vice President for World Sustainability at PepsiCo, Roberta has spent her profession championing the function of world corporations as a pressure for optimistic environmental change. Domestically, her service to conservation and watershed organizations in and round her hometown of Ridgefield helps shield the land and water that birds and wildlife rely upon.
In her remarks, Roberta mirrored on how local weather change “isn’t summary for enterprise. It’s already affecting the crops we depend on, the water we rely on, and the soundness of our operations. The excellent news is that we all know quite a bit about what works.” From watershed replenishment packages to eradicating invasive species in crucial chook habitats, PepsiCo’s world sustainability efforts intention to gradual the forces which might be driving habitat loss and biodiversity decline, with Roberta on the helm.
Anne W. Semmes, storytelling powerhouse and prolific journalist who has written and produced for the Greenwich Sentinel, New York Instances, and NBC’s Right this moment Present, accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award. Anne introduced the viewers to their toes with a poetic reflection on her connection to wildlife. Her reverence for nature was dropped at life by recollections of climbing timber within the Peruvian Amazon and watching kettles of hawks soar over her dwelling.
Like a refrain of songbirds echoing by the woods, our 2026 Environmental Management Awards honorees have a singular capacity to unfold necessary messages. From the boardroom to the newsroom, they amplify efforts to avoid wasting birds and the locations they want, making a conservation impression.
The 2026 Environmental Management Awards Profit was held on the Tamarack Nation Membership in Greenwich, Connecticut. Proceeds help Audubon’s important conservation work in Connecticut.
