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Climate Leadership Awards

U.S. EPA, in partnership with C2ES, The Climate Registry (The Registry), and the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO), is sponsoring the Climate Leadership Awards, a new national awards program to recognize exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change.

The deadline to submit nominations for all Awards has passed.

Award recipients will be honored at a gala at the first annual Climate Leadership Conference held from February 29-March 1, 2012, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The conference will bring together leaders from business, government and academic institutions, and the non-profit community interested in exchanging ideas and information on how to address climate change while simultaneously running their operations more competitively and sustainably.

Click here for conference registration details.

The Climate Leadership Awards will support a legacy for EPA’s Climate Leaders program and provide additional opportunities for private sector corporations, government, academia, and individuals to be recognized for their leadership.

Detailed criteria and the nomination forms for each of the five recognition categories are available online at www.epa.gov/climateleaders/awards/index.html. The categories are:

  • Excellence in GHG Management (Goal Setting Certificate)
    Recognizing organizations that publicly report and verify corporate GHG inventories and publicly set aggressive absolute GHG emissions reduction goals.
  • Excellence in GHG Management (Goal Achievement Award)
    Recognizing organizations that publicly report and verify corporate GHG inventories and achieve aggressive absolute GHG emissions reduction goals.
  • Supply Chain Leadership Award
    Recognizing organizations that have their own comprehensive GHG inventories and emissions reduction goals and can demonstrate they are at the leading edge of managing GHGs in their organizational value chains.
  • Organizational Leadership Award
    Recognizing organizations that exemplify leadership both in their internal response to climate change and through engagement of their peers, competitors, partners, and value chain.
  • Individual Leadership Award
    Recognizing individuals exemplifying extraordinary leadership in leading their organizations’ response to climate change and/or affecting the responses of other organizations.

Businesses with annual revenues over $100 million and governmental entities and academic organizations with annual budgets over $100 million are eligible for nomination in the first four recognition categories. In addition to meeting other criteria, nominees must be able to demonstrate that the bulk of their GHG management activities and achievements have occurred within the United States. In the case of the individual leadership award category, nominees must be employees of organizations that are eligible for the other categories and must reside within the United States.

For more information contact Tom Steinfeldt at steinfeldtt@c2es.org or 703-516-4146.
 

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