Globe Award
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Globe Award is an international sustainability
award which aims at encouraging and promoting the corporate and public sector, individual scientists as well as groups of innovator that have excelled in sustainable development in the world. Globe Award is a not-for-profit organisation with focuses on fostering sustainability in societies. Globe Award’s main goal boils down to inspire actors to take responsibility and act globally through awarding great cases within research, innovations, municipalities and companies.
The award is handed out in 4 categories: Sustainability Research, Sustainability Innovation, Sustainable City and Sustainability Reporting.
Globe Award values:
1. Sustainable development
Driving sustainability by recognising and awarding sustainability champions from around the world is crucial. This is about understanding the consequences of nowadays’s activities and believing in global collaboration to reach solutions to safeguard humanity’s welfare today and in the future.
2. Impact
It is significant to create behavioural change through rewording unique solutions that can be implemented in order to make a change.
3. Transparency
The Globe Award jury groups run the selection process equally independently.
4. Innovation
Honouring tomorrow's leaders develops innovative solutions to the world’s sustainability challenges. Innovative business perspectives are considered as well as people, planet and profit.
The noted and internationally recognized 4 groups of jury consist of experts in sustainability from all over the world. They select one winner in each category independently and on objective grounds. There is the over-all jury chairman who along with the Globe Award secretariat, keeps that the process and selection of applications is obeyed.
Globe Award is an initiative by Globe Forum.
History
When started in 2007, Globe Award was a Swedish CSR Award. After two years of success in Sweden, Globe Forum decided to go further with Globe Award. Struggling in making a difference and increasing awareness towards sustainable development in all societies, it made sense in creating Globe Award a truly global prize focusing on sustainability, instead of CSR, starting from 2009.
The award ceremony takes place annually in Stockholm
. The initiative is supported by H.R.H. Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
.
Despite the world-wide edition, there was a national edition in Poland
. It took place in Gdansk in 2009. The Globe Award Polish Edition was handed out in two categories: Sustainability Innovation and Sustainable City.
Former winners:
2007
2008
2009
2010
Globe Award together with World Bank
has been building an independent, global foundation which will be awarding annually outstanding sustainable cases in the world.
Sustainability
Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
award which aims at encouraging and promoting the corporate and public sector, individual scientists as well as groups of innovator that have excelled in sustainable development in the world. Globe Award is a not-for-profit organisation with focuses on fostering sustainability in societies. Globe Award’s main goal boils down to inspire actors to take responsibility and act globally through awarding great cases within research, innovations, municipalities and companies.
The award is handed out in 4 categories: Sustainability Research, Sustainability Innovation, Sustainable City and Sustainability Reporting.
Globe Award values:
1. Sustainable development
Driving sustainability by recognising and awarding sustainability champions from around the world is crucial. This is about understanding the consequences of nowadays’s activities and believing in global collaboration to reach solutions to safeguard humanity’s welfare today and in the future.
2. Impact
It is significant to create behavioural change through rewording unique solutions that can be implemented in order to make a change.
3. Transparency
The Globe Award jury groups run the selection process equally independently.
4. Innovation
Honouring tomorrow's leaders develops innovative solutions to the world’s sustainability challenges. Innovative business perspectives are considered as well as people, planet and profit.
The noted and internationally recognized 4 groups of jury consist of experts in sustainability from all over the world. They select one winner in each category independently and on objective grounds. There is the over-all jury chairman who along with the Globe Award secretariat, keeps that the process and selection of applications is obeyed.
Globe Award is an initiative by Globe Forum.
History
When started in 2007, Globe Award was a Swedish CSR Award. After two years of success in Sweden, Globe Forum decided to go further with Globe Award. Struggling in making a difference and increasing awareness towards sustainable development in all societies, it made sense in creating Globe Award a truly global prize focusing on sustainability, instead of CSR, starting from 2009.
The award ceremony takes place annually in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
. The initiative is supported by H.R.H. Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland is the heiress-apparent to the Swedish throne. If she ascends to the throne as expected, she will be Sweden's fourth queen regnant .-Early life:...
.
Despite the world-wide edition, there was a national edition in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. It took place in Gdansk in 2009. The Globe Award Polish Edition was handed out in two categories: Sustainability Innovation and Sustainable City.
Former winners:
2007
- Best CSR Research - Sustainability Research Group of the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
- Best CSR Entrepreneur - Scandinavian Biogas, Sweden
- Best CSR Company - SKFSKFSKF, Svenska Kullagerfabriken AB , later AB SKF, is a Swedish bearing company founded in 1907, supplying bearings, seals, lubrication and lubrication systems, maintenance products, mechatronics products, power transmission products and related services globally.-History:The company was founded on...
, Sweden
2008
- Best CSR Research - Sustainable Investment Research Platform, SIRP, at Umeå School of Business, Sweden
- Best CSR Entrepreneur - Rehact AB, Sweden. An honorary diploma was given to Umbilical Design AB.
- Best Integration of CSR in Business Operations - ElectroluxElectroluxThe Electrolux Group is a Swedish appliance maker.As of 2010 the 2nd largest home appliance manufacturer in the world after Whirlpool, its products sell under a variety of brand names including its own and are primarily major appliances and vacuum cleaners...
, Sweden
2009
- Sustainability Research - Nimbkar Agricultural Research InstituteNimbkar Agricultural Research InstituteNimbkar Agricultural Research Institute is a non-governmental organisation and non-profit research and development institute in Phaltan, Maharashtra, India. The institute undertakes research and development in the fields of agriculture, renewable energy, animal husbandry and sustainable...
(NARI),India
- Sustainability Innovation - Tesla MotorsTesla MotorsTesla Motors, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components. It was the only automaker building and selling a zero-emission sports car, the Tesla Roadster, in serial production...
, USA
- Sustainable City - CardiffCardiffCardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
, UK
- Sustainability Reporting - Novo NordiskNovo NordiskNovo Nordisk manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products and services. Created in 1989 through a merger of two Danish companies dating back to the 1920s, it has become one of the world's leading companies in diabetes care, where Novo Nordisk pursues research into pulmonary delivery systems;...
, Denmark
2010
- Sustainability Research - Antrix Corpoartion ISRO, India
- Sustainability Innovation - MAS Intimates, Sri Lanka
- Sustainable City - CuritibaCuritibaCuritiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...
, Brazil
- Sustainability Reporting - CLP, Hong Kong
Globe Award together with World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
has been building an independent, global foundation which will be awarding annually outstanding sustainable cases in the world.
External links
- http://globeaward.org
- http://globeaward.org/globe_award_2011
- http://www.globeaward.org/jury
- http://globeforum.com/
- http://globeaward.org/polish_edition/en/about.html
- http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/globe_forum/pressrelease/view/companies-and-corporations-with-sustainability-reporting-can-be-nominated-to-win-international-award-481114
- http://globeaward.org/globe-award-2007
- http://globeaward.org/globe-award-2008
- http://globeaward.org/globe_award_2009
- http://www.globeaward.org/88
- http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/globe_forum/pressrelease/view/the-world-bank-in-international-partnership-to-create-a-new-global-award-for-sustainable-communities-400719
- http://globeaward.org/assets/images/gallery/2009/thumbs/_DSC3369.jpg