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Sustainable City Awards introduction  


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Most responsible organisations now understand that sustainability lies at the heart of long-term business success and the Sustainable City Awards aim to recognise and reward best practice in this rapidly developing arena.

Entries are welcomed from business, public and voluntary sector organisations. Past winners include BT, The Berkeley Group, F&C Asset Management, Sainsbury’s, the London Cycling Campaign and HM Prison Services.

The awards are judged by a panel of respected environmental and sustainability experts. Since their launch in 2001, the awards have grown to become the most prestigious sustainability awards in the UK.

Zac Goldsmith at Mansion House

The Sustainable City Awards 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. This year, the Awards have received over 150 applications with outstanding quality throughout.

Awarded across nine categories, the Sustainable City Awards were presented by Zac Goldsmith in a ceremony at Mansion House. All entrants have been invited to join the ceremony, to celebrate their achievements and to learn from each other.


The overall winner voted for by the judging panel was Five Talents, in recognition of its micro-enterprise development scheme. The judges were immensely impressed by the way in which this scheme helped to fight poverty as well as support talented entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Sustainable City Awards at the Egyptian HallZac Goldsmith, who presented the awards to the winners at the ceremony, said: “Despite the immensity of the environmental challenge, the truth is, almost everything that needs doing is already being done, somewhere. If ‘best practice’ today became the norm tomorrow, we’d be half way there already. The Sustainable City Awards proves not only that solutions exist, but that where they are adopted, companies invariably flourish as a result.” 

Read more about this year's winners
Read more about previous winners

 

RSA environment awards .net accredited The Sustainable City Awards are one of six UK feeder schemes to the European Business Awards.

Download the Sustainable City Awards Brochure here (648kb)

 

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Sustain Magazine is the Sustainable City Awards' media partner


 

Other City of London Corporation Awards schemes

Clean City Awards
The Clean City Awards Scheme is an initiative by the City of London Corporation designed to develop a partnership with City businesses, both large and small, to achieve a clean environment through good waste management.

Lord Mayor's Dragon Awards
The Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards celebrate annually the contribution made by London companies towards the social and economic regeneration of their local communities.


Last modified: 5 March 2009 | Author: Birte Berlemann
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