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.
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.
Zac 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
The Sustainable City Awards are one of six UK feeder schemes to
the European Business Awards.
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