Explanation:

Only statement 1st is correct.

• Alok Shukla, convenor of the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan and founding member of the Hasdeo Aranya Bachao Sangharsh Samiti, has been awarded the 2024 Goldman Prize from Asia.

• The Prize recognizes individuals for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk.

• It is also known as the Green Nobel.

• It recognizes grassroots environmental heroes from roughly the world’s six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands & Island Nations, North America and South & Central America

• The Goldman Prize views “grassroots” leaders as those involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen participation.

• The first Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony took place on April 16, 1990. It was timed to coincide with Earth Day.

Hence option 1st is correct.