2026 Environmental Leadership Awards Honors Roberta Barbieri, Anne W. Semmes

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 International Sustainability at PepsiCo, Roberta has spent her profession championing the position of worldwide corporations as a pressure for constructive environmental change. Domestically, her service to conservation and watershed organizations in and round her hometown of Ridgefield helps defend the land and water that birds and wildlife rely on.

In her remarks, Roberta mirrored on how local weather change “just isn’t summary for enterprise. It’s already affecting the crops we depend on, the water we rely on, and the steadiness of our operations. The excellent news is that we all know quite a bit about what works.” From watershed replenishment applications to eradicating invasive species in crucial chook habitats, PepsiCo’s world sustainability efforts purpose to gradual the forces which can 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 At this time Present, accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award. Anne introduced the viewers to their ft with a poetic reflection on her connection to wildlife. Her reverence for nature was dropped at life via recollections of climbing timber within the Peruvian Amazon and watching kettles of hawks soar over her dwelling.

Like a refrain of songbirds echoing via the woods, our 2026 Environmental Management Awards honorees have a novel means to unfold essential messages. From the boardroom to the newsroom, they amplify efforts to avoid wasting birds and the locations they want, making a conservation influence.

The 2026 Environmental Management Awards Profit was held on the Tamarack Nation Membership in Greenwich, Connecticut. Proceeds assist Audubon’s important conservation work in Connecticut.