Award ceremony in November 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the WEC Gold Medal
WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 22, 2024. The World Surroundings Middle (WEC) immediately introduced the WEC 40th Gold Medal Award for Worldwide Company Achievement in Sustainable Improvement is awarded to Provider World Company (NYSE:CARR), world chief in clever local weather and power options. The WEC Gold Medal Award will probably be introduced at an in-person ceremony in Washington, D.C. on November 13, 2024.
Since 1985, the WEC Gold Medal Award has been introduced yearly to a world firm that has built-in sustainability into its enterprise practices, created ground-breaking options to crucial environmental and social challenges, and demonstrated world management to speed up progress towards a sustainable future.
An unbiased Gold Medal Jury comprised of acknowledged sustainability specialists chosen Provider in recognition of its formidable environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives, together with serving to its prospects keep away from greater than 1 gigaton of greenhouse fuel emissions by the top of the last decade. The Jury awarded Provider for its dedication to sustainability mirrored within the options provided of their services and products, investments made in the direction of local weather and power improvements and continued dedication to their 2030 objectives.
Gold Medal Jury Chair Linda Fisher, former Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer of Dupont, stated, “On behalf of the Jury, I prolong my honest congratulations to Provider for its considerate strategy to sustainability. Their commitments coupled with world initiatives and partnerships have a far-reaching and optimistic sustainability affect world wide.”
In acknowledging receipt of the celebrated world sustainability award, Hakan Yilmaz, Senior Vice President, Chief Know-how & Sustainability Officer at Provider stated “We’re honored to be the recipient of the fortieth Gold Medal award, a recognition that shines a lightweight on Provider’s longtime dedication to innovating groundbreaking applied sciences and options that advance sustainability world wide. As a world chief in clever local weather and power options, we’re reimagining environments for immediately and tomorrow to create a optimistic affect on individuals and our planet.
“We congratulate Provider and salute the corporate’s deep understanding of its vital function in getting the world to internet zero,” stated WEC President and CEO Margaret O’Gorman, “It’s becoming that the 40th Gold Medal Award acknowledges innovation by an organization that so intently aligns with WEC’s values of empowering sustainability management by intelligence, empowerment and motion.”
The Jury is unbiased of WEC and its applications, and consists of worldwide leaders from academia, authorities, non-governmental organizations, and retired trade professionals. The winner is chosen by a world competitors amongst nominated corporations invited to use for the Award. Earlier recipients of the WEC Gold Medal Award embody Jacobs, AB InBev, Microsoft, the Ford Motor Firm, Trane Applied sciences (previously Ingersoll Rand), Ecolab, HP Inc., Jacobs, SC Johnson.
In regards to the World Surroundings Middle (WEC)
The World Surroundings Middle advances sustainable growth by company enterprise practices. Headquartered in Washington, D.C. with places of work in Europe and Latin America, WEC advances company sustainability management by its world government roundtable on key challenges and alternatives, builds capability of small enterprises in rising markets, and honors trade excellence by its annual Gold Medal Award. WEC is an unbiased, non-profit, non-governmental group. For extra info, please go to www.wec.org.
About Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC)
WHC has been working on the nexus of enterprise and biodiversity for 35 years and is the one worldwide NGO targeted completely on enabling personal sector motion for nature. WHC builds methods and frameworks for corporations to combine nature with local weather, fairness and engagement to assist sustainable ecosystems and wholesome communities. WHC company members characterize a few of the main nationwide and multinational companies. WHC-certified applications might be present in nineteen nations and 48 U.S. states.
Earlier this 12 months, WHC and WEC introduced plans to mix the 2 organizations into a brand new entity. This mix will increase alternatives for best-in-class collaborations with corporations to halt and restore nature loss, enhance water stewardship, improve local weather and group resilience and assist the transition to a round economic system. The brand new group title and branding is predicted to launch within the fall of 2024.
