1 December 2008
Rolling out the Green carpet for the Sustainable City Awards
2009
Deadline for entry: 5 December 2008
With just three weeks to go for businesses to enter into the
Sustainable City Awards, deadline 5 December, the City of London
Corporation have signed up Zac Goldsmith, Editor of the Ecologist
to give out the gongs at the annual awards ceremony on the 19
February 2009.
The RSA accredited Sustainable City Awards recognise and reward
UK wide organisations, from the multinationals to the SMEs, on
their outstanding achievements across all aspects of sustainable
development. These highly respected awards are one of the only six
feeder schemes for the European Business Awards for the
Environment, meaning that all category winners have the chance of
international recognition for their sustainable efforts.
For the 8th year running, the City of London Corporation will be
“rolling out the green carpet” at Mansion House and giving
businesses the chance to enter into the prestigious Sustainable
City Awards. BSkyB and Metropolitan Police are amongst some of the
past winners who have been rewarded for their outstanding
achievements in sustainability.
Simon Mills, the City of London Corporation’s Sustainability
Co-ordinator, says: “With increasing uncertainty about energy and
pressure on waste disposal fees and procurement costs, the
environment is now a business bottom line.”
Goldsmith, says: “Climate change represents the biggest threat
we’ve ever faced and it is wonderful therefore to be able to
recognise the huge range of companies, organisations and
individuals that see it as their responsibility to take
sustainability to the heart of what they do. Almost everything that
needs doing is already being done, somewhere, and by showcasing
best practice, these Awards will provide real motivation.”
The Sustainable City Awards were established in 2001 by the City
of London Corporation and are run in partnership with 20
organisations, including livery companies, trade bodies, voluntary
sector organisations and businesses. Representatives from each of
these organisations join the judging panel to select winners and
runners-up across the award categories.
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Notes to Editors
Further information and judging criteria for the Sustainable City
Awards, along with an application form can be found at:
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/sca. Entrants are
strongly encouraged to submit applications electronically. An MS
Word version of the form is available on request by emailing
sca@cityoflondon.gov.uk
and completed forms can be returned to the same address.
The closing date for entries is 5 December 2008. There is no fee
for participating in the Sustainable City Awards. For more
information on the European Environmental Awards, visit
http://www.defra.gov.uk/.
The Sustainable City Awards are only made possible through
partnership with the following organisations:
- Sustain
- BRE
- Pure
- CESMB, Middlesex University
- GEMS
- Global Action Plan
- London Remade
- London Sustainability Exchange
- The Society for the Environment
- The UK Social Investment Forum
- The Worshipful Company of Carmen
- The Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors
- The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners
- The Worshipful Company of Fanmakers
- The Worshipful Company of Launderers
- The Worshipful Company of Patten Makers
- The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators
- Campaign for Better Transport
Award Categories
This year’s award
categories (open to applicants from across the UK unless otherwise
stated) are
- Sustainable and Ethical Investment and Asset Management – in
association with UKSIF (UK wide)
- Traffic Reduction and Transport Management – in association
with the Campaign for Better Transport and the Worshipful Company
of Carmen (UK wide)
- Resource Conservation – in association with the Society for the
Environment, the Worshipful Company of Launderers and the
Worshipful Company of Water Conservators (UK wide)
- Sustainable Procurement – in association with London Remade (UK
wide)
- Sustainable Building – in association with the BRE and the
Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors (UK wide)
- Adapting to and Mitigating Climate Change – in association with
Pure the clean planet trust and the Worshipful Company of Fan
Makers (UK wide)
- Access to Goods and Services for Disadvantaged Communities – in
association with the Worshipful Company of Patten Makers (London
only)
- Environmental Management in SMEs – in association with the
London Sustainability Exchange and the Worshipful Company of
Environmental Cleaners (London only)
- Sustainable Food – in association with Sustain (London
only)
City of London Corporation
The City of London Corporation is the long-standing body with a
modern role that looks after the Square Mile, including support for
the international financial services industry based in the UK. The
City Corporation, whose elected head is the Lord Mayor also
provides local authority services for the Square Mile and,
importantly, works across wider London and UK to provide exemplary
services – from the international Barbican Arts Centre, Hampstead
Heath, the original wholesale food markets of London, the Port of
London Health Authority, Epping Forest, the five City Brides, the
internationally renowned Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and
the London Metropolitan Archives. It also works with inner London
boroughs on a large number of regeneration projects – and supports
three inner London City Academies.
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