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Environmental activist Ma Jun has won the prestigious 2015 Skoll Foundation Award for Social Enterpreneurship <\/a>for his many campaigns to obtain an accurate picture of pollution in China.<\/p>\n

The Oxford-based Skoll Foundation<\/a> said\u00a0it was recognising Ma Jun for \u201clifting the veil\u201d on pollution in China, and praised his \u201cinnovative, encompassing approach to transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ma Jun tackles lack of public information on pollution in China by creating tools<\/a> for people to access information about their local land, air, and water using existing government data, the Foundation\u2019s citation said.<\/p>\n

His work has generated \u201cincreased public participation in environmental governance\u201d and led to nearly 2,000 factories taking action to clean up their operations.<\/p>\n

Investigative journalist Ma Jun founded The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE)<\/a> in 2006 because he was concerned that, without public pressure, polluting industries had little reason to clean up their operations, and often received only minimal fines.<\/p>\n

Skoll Foundation also praised IPE for promoting sustainable global supply chains by getting large corporations and multinationals like Apple, Hewlett Packard, H&M, and Gap to monitor the environmental performance of their suppliers.<\/p>\n

Ma Jun writes for chinadialogue and is a member of its editorial advisory board.<\/p>\n

The Skoll Awards \u201cdistinguish transformative leaders who are disrupting the status quo, driving large-scale change, and are poised to make an even greater impact on the world,\u201d the citation said.<\/p>\n

“We’re delighted that Ma Jun’s pioneering work has been recognised in this way,” said chinadialogue’s CEO Isabel Hilton.<\/p>\n

The award brings with it a prize of US$1.25 million (\u00a3837,453) to help the winners to \u201cscale up their work and increase their impact.\u201d The Skoll Foundation says it has distributed US$499 million since 1999 to support the development of NGOs, and tackle environmental threats.<\/p>\n

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