Sustainable travel award opens

Sunday, 27 Oct, 2015 0

Ashden looking for pioneering enterprises

Ashden Awards are now open for business for 2016. The organization is looking for pioneering enterprises and programmes demonstrating achievement in any of the following areas:

Increasing energy access for homes or businesses: Increasing energy access to those that have limited or no access by providing renewable energy products or services.
Sustainable buildings: Improving energy use in urban buildings, including residential, commercial and public buildings.
Developing innovative financial mechanisms or business models for delivering sustainable energy: Organisations providing innovative financial mechanisms or using innovative business to expand access to sustainable energy products or services.
Sustainable travel: Innovative enterprises or programmes that are improving access to sustainable travel, encouraging the use of more sustainable modes of travel or using technology to enable more efficient fuel use.
Improving the lives of women and girls through sustainable energy: Enterprises or programmes that are providing sustainable energy to women and girls as beneficiaries and creating employment or income-generating activities, or involving them in the supply chain. We are also interested in work benefiting refugees and internally displaced women and girls.
Sustainable energy and water: Enterprises or programmes using sustainable energy technologies to deliver increased access to safe and affordable drinking water; or water for agricultural production; or adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene.

The award offers winners prize money of £20,000; and one International Gold Award of £30,000. Winners and shortlisted get UK national and international media exposure.

Apply at: https://www.ashden.org/

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