Environment Awards

The RSA Environment Awards Forum & Accreditation

The Forum and Accreditation  Scheme is not a project in the current understanding of the term. Rather, it is an initiative that is celebrating its tenth anniversary at the RSA that was designed and created by a group of RSA Fellows.

What is…

The RSA Environment Awards Forum? (PDF 129KB)

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At this time of economic unrest individuals, businesses and organisations try to find ways to make them stand out from the rest.

Awards are an important mechanism to encourage business and wider society to move in a sustainable direction. There are now more than 400 awards that reward progress in environmental advancement and sustainable development across many disciplines which can make it extremely difficult to know which to choose.

The RSA's Response

Taking notice of the situation, a group of RSA Fellows pooled their professional experience of environmental issues and set up a Forum for Environmental and Sustainable Development Awards (now known as the RSA Environment Awards Forum) that accredits awards to objective standards. The Forum ensures that there is a benchmark for awards that reward real progress towards sustainability.

Watch video of the 2010 European Environment Awards Finalists at the RSA

The Forum maintains a database of over 400 environmental and sustainable development awards; EnvironmentalAwards.net which includes details on each award. Just ten of these awards currently meet the high standards required and are accredited by the Forum; see the RSA Accreditation website for more details of accreditation.

The Forum provides:

  • Organisers of environmental awards with a higher profile, allowing them to attract more and better quality entrants, and also gives them eligibility for the European Business Awards for the Environment.

  • Businesses and other applicants to environmental award schemes confidence that the award they are entering is high quality and independently audited.

  • The UK with consistently high quality entrants and winners of the European Business Awards for the Environment.

    • Find out more by visiting the RSA Accreditation website. If you would like to join the mailing list for updates then please email us.