Awards Finalists and Winners 2013

The finalists and winners for the Climate Week Awards 2013 have been announced – click on the links on the left to view the the shortlist and winner for each category!

Awards are given for the following categories:

• Best Artistic Response
  Provoking creative or cultural responses to climate change through literature, art, music, film, and the performing arts.




• Best Campaign
  Campaigns that have helped to create changes in behaviour or attitude.




• Best Climate Ready Initiative
  Innovative or effective projects and organisations which help society adapt to the effects of a changing climate.




• Best Community Initiative
  Recognising effective projects bringing about change or mobilising people to act at a local level to build sustainable communities.




• Best Educational Initiative
  Innovative schemes engaging pupils and students on climate change and ways to combat it.




• Best Initiative by a Governmental or Statutory Body
  Recognising effective initiatives to help combat climate change by government departments and statutory bodies.




• Best Initiative by a Large Business***
  Initiatives, products and services by large businesses that are making workplaces more sustainable, reducing an organisation’s carbon footprint, or using their influence positively to help combat climate change.




• Best Initiative by a Public or Uniformed Service
  Recognising effective initiatives to help combat climate change in healthcare, the emergency services, and the military.




• Best Initiative by a Small or Medium-Sized Business**
  Initiatives, products and services by small or medium-sized businesses that are making workplaces more sustainable, reducing an organisation’s carbon footprint, or using their influence positively to help combat climate change.




• Best Local Initiative
  Recognising effective initiatives to help combat climate change by local government and regional bodies.




• Best New Product
  Exciting new low-carbon products or services.




• Best Technological Breakthrough
  Bold new technological innovations helping to advance a low-carbon future.




• Most Inspirational Leader
  Outstanding leadership that has transformed or progressed an organisation or community’s approach to combating climate change




• Most Inspirational Young Person*
  Recognising the next generation of leaders taking action on climate change.

* Nominees must have been 25 or under on 30 Januray 2013
** Category is for businesses with fewer than 250 employees
*** Category is for businesses with 250 or more employees