2016Jan

Energy Globe World Award 2016

Energy Globe: Stop talking, start acting

On 19th January, Tehran will be the stage for the outstanding initiative “ENERGY GLOBE Award” followed by more than 1 billion people around the world. The Award is based on best practice examples and distinguished effective solutions to the problems of our world resources.

The Austrian energy pioneer Wolfgang Neumann is engaged for over 30 years in the issue of sustainable energy: "We must find ways and means to sustainably use our resources and also integrate the less developed states in our commitment to our environment," said the founder of the ENERGY GLOBE.

High-ranking laudatory speakers from politics, business and culture support this initiative and record environmental winner in five categories: Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Youth.

The finalists for the Energy Globe World Award are announced

There are nominated 15 out of 2.000 projects this year for the World Award 2016. In the category Earth will be found Ethiopia with a reforestation project, Australia with an architectural masterpiece in the form of a high-rise and Denmark with a sustainable hotel for business people prevailed over 1.700 competing submissions.

The United Kingdom, the USA and the Philippines have made it into the finale of the category Fire with a crowdfunding platform for renewable energies, a biomass torrefaction facility that produces pellets from sugarcane waste and the Liter of Light, a simple plastic bottle lamp based on water and bleach.

In the category Water are nominated Tanzania with a ceramic pot filter for resource-conserving and environmental friendly water treatment, China with the Qunli stormwater park and Iran with the largest wastewater treatment plant in the Middle East.

The finalists in the category Air are Canada with a large-scale competition for energy reduction in the commercial office sector, Switzerland with electric powered lorries as part of a CO2 reduction program and the Czech Republic with an energy efficient winery and enclosed hotel.

In the category Youth an annual football tournament in Belize which is all about environment, a future conservationist and farmers program in Nigeria and environmental education in Nepal are to be found.

But Tehran is not only presenter of the Energy Globe World Awards. At the same time the Green Management Conference will be taking place. Host of the World Awards is the Iranian Green Management Society which already has been awarding the best national Iranian winners during the last 7 years.

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