Sunita Narain, director-general of the New Delhi-based think-tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has won the Edinburgh Medal 2020, instituted by the City of Edinburgh Council.

Narain is the second Indian after Amartya Sen to receive the award, the latter winning it in 1997, after it was instituted in 1988.

“It’s a great honour and I take it as a vindication of the stand taken by the CSE over the years in upholding climate justice particularly equity, equitable but just responsibility of countries in cutting down carbon emission” Narain told The Telegraph. She was supposed to travel to Edinburgh in April to receive the award but could not because of the pandemic.