Climate-KIC nominated for two awards
The EU’s climate innovation initiative, Climate-KIC, has been shortlisted in two of the 2016 Guardian categories, Communicating Sustainability and Collaboration, for the Sustainable Business Awards.
Multinational corporations IKEA and SABMiller are nominees for this year’s annual Sustainable Business Awards, as are organisations Climate-KIC, the Carbon Trust and the Carbon Tracker Initiative.
Angela Howarth, European head of communications at Climate-KIC, said: “We are absolutely thrilled to be shortlisted for such a prestigious award alongside so many other high-impact organisations. This nomination is a well-earned recognition of Climate-KIC’s fantastic community across Europe and around the world. They have put so much hard work into this project.
“The world has an unprecedented opportunity to create a prosperous low carbon future, driven by innovation, jobs, and investment. At Climate-KIC we are seizing this opportunity for Europe, and initiatives like our Climathon and Calculator – and the Guardian‘s sustainable business awards – are some of the projects that allow us to reach out and communicate that.”
Climate-KIC’s 2015 ‘Global Climathon’ and accompanying communications campaign, nominated in the Communicating Sustainability category, saw the project trending on social media in London and Washington DC. In June 2015, the 24-hour event inspired worldwide collaboration to help solve the climate change challenges of 20 participating cities, with the winning solutions presented at the UN climate summit in Paris in December.
Climate-KIC’s Calculator, shortlisted in the Collaboration category, was created in another global collaborative project involving organisations from the US, China, India and Europe. It is an interactive tool for businesses, NGOs and governments to help cut CO2 emissions.
Winners of this year’s awards will be announced online on 27 May 2016.
