Applications Invited for Launch of the Climate Resilience Awards for Business

Follow us@ngobox

About the Organization

The Global Resilience Partnership advances resilience through identifying and scaling on the ground innovation, generating and sharing knowledge, and shaping policy. Resilience underpins sustainable development in an increasingly unpredictable world. We envisage an inclusive world in harmony with nature, that is better prepared to cope with shocks, adapt to change, and transform – all within planetary boundaries. GRP is made up of diverse organisations that have joined forces to work together towards this vision.

About the Award

WBCSD and GRP have launched the Climate Resilience Awards for Business to spotlight companies that advance climate resilience through innovative approaches, collaboration, and measurable impact across operations, supply chains, and communities.

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 Climate Resilience Awards for Business are, to:

• Recognise innovative solutions that strengthen resilience in communities, ecosystems, and economies through business action.
• Promote collaboration between organisations, 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 recognised along the following categories:

Strategic Leadership in Resilience Award: Honouring businesses that have either

• Integrated resilience across their operations.
• Trialled innovative resilience solutions, including technologies, methodologies, or financing mechanisms that substantially improve resilience capabilities.
• Addressed value chain resilience or improved resilience along a logistics route, including identification and measurement of physical risk along the value chain and developing a resilience plan.
• Been driven by an outstanding commitment by an individual changemaker to go beyond ‘business as usual’

Partnerships and Collaboration Award– Honouring partnerships or collaborations that 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

SME award– Award in any of the above categories but for a small business

Finalists 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.

Eligibility

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). 

How to Apply

The awards submission window is open from 3rd September until the 18th October.

Please complete the form linked here to enter.

For more information please check the Link