The Climate Change Leadership Award recognizes community members that have demonstrated exemplary leadership in climate change action. Climate action includes adaptation to risks from climate change, improving energy resilience through energy efficiency, and actions that reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change leaders achieved this through the implementation of initiatives and/or creation of awareness.
Who can submit a nomination?
Eligible residents and/or organizations can submit nominee(s).
Eligibility
Nominee(s) can be individual residents of the City of St. John’s or an organization that is St. John’s based or a local branch. Organizations include but are not limited to: non-for-profit organizations, educational institutions, St. John’s located businesses or corporations with local operations, industry associations, etc.
Two categories are awarded:
- Corporate Climate Change Leadership Award: to recognize an organization that has advanced climate action in its operations through switching energy sources, improving energy and or water efficiency, reducing waste, creating awareness, and/or implementing other improvements.
- Community Climate Change Leadership Award: to recognize an organization or individual that has advanced climate action in the wider community through the implementation of initiatives and/or creation of awareness.
Achievement for nomination must contribute to the actions reflected in the Resilient St. John’s Community Climate Plan:
- Affordable, efficient buildings for all: Making buildings affordable and energy efficient (i.e., retrofits or reuses of an existing building or outstanding effort in new development, which increases energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions)
- Thriving natural environment and agriculture: Implementing nature-based solutions to climate change that enhance or secure ecological assets to improve their long-term resilience and health in a changing climate, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and/or improving local food security.
- Transportation transformation: Reducing our need for personal vehicles through active transportation, and/or supporting the electrification of the remaining personal and commercial vehicles (e.g., EV chargers, and adoption of zero-emission vehicles).
- A low-waste future: Efforts to improve waste diversion, and efforts to develop a local circular economy.
- Disaster resilience and emergency preparedness: Preparing for the storms, by improving resident’s and/or businesses’ preparedness to extreme weather events thru engineered and/or nature-based solutions.
- Clean energy for resilience: Efforts to apply localized renewable energy technologies or utilize clean fuels to increase resilience and/or achieve greenhouse gas reductions.
Selection information
The Climate Leadership Award selection based solely on the information provided in the nomination form Nominations will be reviewed by a staff committee that will provides a recommendation to the Environment and Sustainability Experts Panel who will provide its final vote on the final award winner(s).
Application and deadlines
The deadline for applications is Monday, March 10 at 5 p.m. To submit a nomination, complete and submit the following:
Climate Change Leadership Award Nomination Form
