This year's winner of the Gothenburg Prize, an environmental award that draws attention to efforts to promote sustainable development, are the United Nations former Secretary General Kofi Annan and researcher Sue Edwards.

During the awards ceremony on December 14 2011, Chalmers Students Chalmers Students Erik Wallnér, Filip Odino and Emilia Liljeström was given the opportunity to meet with Kofi Annan – a meeting that ended up in an interesting and topical discussion on sustainable development and the world's great challenges.