• Anil Agarwal has been selected posthumously as the recipient of the SCB Distinguished Service Award for his contributions in the field of conservation and development.
• Anil Agarwal Awarded 2001 Sat Paul Mittal Award for Environment.
• Person of the Year 2001 by First City, New Delhi.
• Borlaug Award, Coromandel Fertilisers Ltd.
• Padma Bhushan, Government Of India.
• Global Environment Leadership Award, Global Environment Facility, Washington, DC.
• Maharana Udaisingh Award, Maharana Mewar Foundation, Udaipur.
• Environmentalist of the Year by Les Realites de l'Ecologie, France.
• National Citizens' Award, New Delhi.
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
• B.P.Poddar Memorial All-India Award, Bharat Chamber of Commerce, Calcutta.
• Elected to the Global 500 Honour Roll by the United Nations Environment Programme.Honour Summus Award, Watumull Foundation, Hawaii.
• Padma Shri by the Government of India, New Delhi.
• Fifth Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
• First A.H. Boerma Award given by the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome.