Awards

The Green Business Awards 2009 - the "Green Globes" - uphold the most innovative, ambitious and effective initiatives by UK business for achieving environmental sustainability, and implementing smart business practice.
 

The Awards continue to encourage a growing band of companies and organisations to spend time and effort in marrying business goals with environmental aims. All major business sectors are represented in the Awards, which are designed to acknowledge the year’s best efforts and achievement in each area.

The Green Business Awards 2009  provide a unique context for affirming commitment to sustainability.

Management Today (MT) is presenting the Awards in association with ENDS - the specialist environmental publishing unit and the leading source of information for professionals on environment, sustainability and climate change since 1978. ENDS has devised the Awards criteria and judging process for 2009. Both MT and ENDS are part of Haymarket Media Group - the UK’s largest privately owned publisher, with an extensive portfolio of business and consumer titles and websites, renowned for being an independent, expert and dynamic organisation.

Management Today is Britain’s leading monthly business magazine, reaching, more than 100,000 (ABC Jul 2008 101,002) of the most senior and influential decision makers in British business every month. Packed with the latest ideas for improving both personal and organisational performance, MT is committed to covering sustainability and environmental issues, and recognises that going green is not only good for the environment, it’s good for business too.  

Matthew Gwyther, Editor, MT

ENDS once more leads the content development of the Green Business Awards. ENDS' long-established expertise in environmental affairs underpins the awards. In 2009 these skills are further enhanced by the launch of ENDSCarbon, a joint venture between ENDS and University of Edingburgh Business School. Via ENDSCarbon, assessments of award entries will become more research-based, objective and quantified. Award categories have also been refreshed and grouped into sections around carbon management, environmental management and green business development, making them relevant to all types of organisation, irrespective of size or type of operation. As a result of these changes, ENDS is confident that the Green Business Awards 2009 will be an even more essential barometer of business performance on environment, climate change and sustainability.

Nick Rowcliffe, Editor in Chief, ENDS