2 February 2009
City of London Corporation announces businesses shortlisted for
a 'green gong'
Today the City of London Corporation prepares to roll out the
green carpet for 38 organisations from the private and public
sectors who are all in the running to win a prestigious Sustainable
City Award. Zac Goldsmith will be giving out the gongs at the
Mansion House ceremony on 19 February 2009.
Businesses shortlisted for a 2009 Sustainable City Award, or
what has been dubbed a ‘green gong’, for their outstanding
achievements across all aspects of sustainable development include:
Land Securities, Skanska, Reading Borough Council, Café Spice
Namaste and Transport for London.
Emma Bara, Sustainability Coordinator, City of London
Corporation says: ‘We had a really strong response this year from
all scales of businesses from the SMEs to global multinationals. It
is evident that in the today’s economic climate businesses are
continuing to recognise how environmental initiatives can really
impact on their business.’
With Greater London alone consuming more energy than the whole
of Portugal, the City of London Corporation’s Sustainable
Development Office is committed to pushing forward action to
encourage cities to be more sustainable by celebrating commendable
sustainable business practice through the running of these
awards.
The 2009 Sustainable City Awards judging panel, who have set
their sights on celebrating new innovative schemes, consists of a
number of environmental and sustainable experts, including Ram
Gidoomal CBE Sustainable Development Commissioner for London,
Samantha Heath CEO of London Sustainability Exchange and Alderman
Fiona Woolf CBE ex-President of the Law Society.
The RSA accredited 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.
Award Categories & Shortlisted Companies:
Traffic Reduction and Transport Management – in
association with the Campaign for Better Transport and the
Worshipful Company of Carmen (UK wide)
- Chi Lowhub Ltd
- Reading Borough Council
Resource Conservation – in association with the
Society for the Environment, the Worshipful Company of Launderers
and the Worshipful Company of Water Conservators
- Stratton Hotels
- Financial Services Authority
- Geothermal International
- Studio E
- Broadgate Estates
Sustainable Procurement – in association with
London Remade
- First Impressions Last Longer
- Lakehouse
- Skanska
- Café Spice Namaste
- Transport for London
Sustainable Building – in association with the
BRE and the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors
- Land Securities
- Green Structures
- Max Fordham
- Geothermal International
- Kingspan
Adapting to and Mitigating Climate Change – in
association with Pure the clean planet trust and the Worshipful
Company of Fan Makers
- Chorus Colours
- Max Fordham
- Land Securities
- British Land (on behalf of British Land, Broadgate Estates and
the occupiers of 201 Bishopsgate and the Broadgate Tower)
- Studio E Architects
Access to Goods and Services for Disadvantaged
Communities – in association with the Worshipful Company
of Patten Makers
- ELFA
- Horniman
- Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Rushey Green
- Southall Black Sisters
Environmental Management in SMEs – in
association with the London Sustainability Exchange and the
Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners
- Forsters
- Café Spice Namaste
- Vacherine
- First Impressions
- Studio E Architects
Sustainable Food – in association with
Sustain
- Restaurant Association
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Wahaca
- Vacherin
- Café Spice Namaste
Last year’s awards saw the SMEs celebrated as the bright stars
of the night, including: Beales Hotels, the London Borough of
Bromley, One Planet Products and Opportunity International.
Ends
Notes to Editors:
Further information and judging criteria for the Sustainable City
Awards, can be found at:
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/sca.
There is no fee for participating in the Sustainable City
Awards. For more information on the European Environmental Awards,
visit 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
Two categories have been removed from the shortlist this year
due to a drop in entrant numbers: the Sustainable & Ethical
Investment & Asset Management and the Traffic Reduction &
Transport Management categories. Entrant numbers overall have
risen.
City of London Corporation
The City of London Corporation: The City of London Corporation,
which provides local government services for the Square Mile, the
financial and commercial heart of Britain, works nationally and
internationally to maintain and enhance the City as a world-leading
international financial and business centre. Its other special
responsibilities and services to London and the wider UK include
the City of London Police, Barbican Arts Centre, Central Criminal
Court at the Old Bailey, 10,000 acres of open space including
Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest, three wholesale food markets,
two inner-London City Academies, the City Bridge Trust, economic
regeneration programmes in neighbouring boroughs and acting as
London’s Port Health Authority. The Lord Mayor of the City of
London works extensively at home and abroad to promote the
City.
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