Launch of the Climate Resilience Awards for Business- open until 18th October
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Global Resilience Partnership are collaborating on a new award for businesses leading in climate resilience to build momentum alongside the action agenda for COP 30 in Belém
The awards seek to identify and celebrate businesses who are taking action to assess and ensure future resilience to climate change and broader physical risks for themselves, their supply chains and their communities.
Purpose of the awards
The aims of the Global Business Climate Resilience Awards are, to:
Recognize innovative solutions that strengthen resilience in communities, ecosystems, and economies through business action.
Promote collaboration between organizations, governments, and businesses in driving sustainable resilience practices.
Showcase exemplary efforts that inspire others to adopt resilience-focused strategies with practical ‘how to’ s and lessons learned.
Award categories and criteria
Business achievements will be recognized along the following categories:
1. Strategic Leadership in Resilience Award: Honoring businesses that have either
a. integrated resilience across their operations.
b. trialled Innovative resilience solutions including technologies, methodologies, or financing mechanisms that substantially improve resilience capabilities.
c. addressed supply chain resilience or improve resilience along a logistics route
d. been driven by an outstanding commitment by an individual changemaker to go beyond ‘business as usual’
2. Partnerships and Collaboration Award– have demonstrated successful public- private collaboration with national or regional authorities in planning (including NAPSs) or implementing adaptation actions and improved capability and relationships across stakeholder groups
3. SME award– Award in any of the above categories but for a small business
Winners will be assessed against the following criteria by a judging panel including external experts from the business and resilience communities:
Innovation
Demonstrating originality and ingenuity in their approach to resilience.
Potential for Impact
Evidence of measurable outcomes that benefit people, ecosystems, or economies grounded in robust data and measurable outcomes
Sustainability
Ensuring long-term viability and scalability of the initiative.
FAQ
1. Who can participate?
The awards are open to all businesses in any sector, region and of any size (SMEs will be considered against other SMEs). It is not necessary to already be a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development or a partner of the Global Resilience Partnership. There is no fee to participate.
The only requirement is that the case study is recent, covers all the key requirements of the awards submission form and can backed up as necessary by data requested by WBCSD and GRP (provided confidentially).
See eligibility criteria as well as other terms and conditions for entry here.
2. How long is the competition open for?
The awards submission window is open from 3rd September until the 18th October.
Winners will be informed within two weeks to allow for preparations time to prepare to announce the awards before COP30.
3. Why should companies participate?
On an ecosystem level- to contribute to the global adaptation goals by supporting the wider momentum and mobilization around the COP30 Action Agenda.
In particular the Brazilian COP30 Presidency, supported by the Climate Champions, aims to showcase tangible non-party (non-state actor) implementation and action, supporting the ‘business case for adaptation’ and providing replicable and scalable examples.
Participation by leading companies will help raise awareness and enrich knowledge of opportunities and approaches to climate resilience across the private sector as well as help non-profit and public sectors understand how to better support corporate climate adaptation.
On an individual level- finalists and winners will gain the following benefits:
- Online recognition through features in GRP, WBCSD and partner digital platforms
- Inclusion in case studies and best-practice reports and platform for knowledge sharing including WBCSD’s Climate Drive Library and GRP’s Resilience Solutions Platform, and the COP30 Business Action Bank
- Potential networking opportunities and visibility at high-profile public events including COP30 opportunities including at the Resilience Hub- including priority sponsorship opportunities
- Invitation to closed door high-level events during Climate Weeks and COP
- Demonstration of leadership and inspiration for other businesses to replicate successful resilience strategies – contribution to advancement of global adaptation agenda.
4. How to submit an entry for your business ?
Please complete the form linked here to enter.
Good to know: WBCSD supports the COP30 Business Action Bank– therefore there is no need to enter the same resilience case study twice (note that submissions to the Business Action Bank may not automatically be submitted to the awards process).
On 2 September WBCSD launched the CEO Handbook for Physical Risks, designed to engage CEOs on the critical importance of managing physical risk for business continuity. Later in September we will be releasing a CEO Handbook for Executive Engagement, created to support meaningful discussions between CEOs, C-Suite executives, Board and investors on managing physical risks across value chains. To be the first to receive this guidance, sign up here.
In June WBCSD published its latest guidance on adaptation and resilience, “Adaptation Planning for Business- Navigating Uncertainty to build long-term resilience, which offers a practical roadmap to identify risks, design solutions, integrate adaptation into core business functions, and monitor progress. This guidance builds on WBCSD’s The Business Leaders Guide to Climate Adaptation & Resilience | on how to start your adaptation journey through strategic frameworks.
Questions or comments?
Get in touch with Lucy Moran, Manager, Climate Action at WBCSD at lucy.moran@wbcsd.org.
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