JSW Group will focus on climate-friendly practices to shortlist winners for the 9th edition of JSW Earth Care Awards. Organisations and institutes in Madhya Pradesh that have implemented locally-evolved climate-friendly practices in their production and consumption regimes can nominate their projects for the Earth Care Awards by June15, 2019.
Through the Earth Care Awards, JSW Group, will recognize actions and innovations for climate change mitigation and adaptation by communities, entrepreneurs, large scale industries, women-led enterprises and urban bodies. The award recognizes, verifies and promotes replicable initiatives and interventions on the greenhouse gasses (GHG) emission reduction, natural resource conservation, energy efficiency improvement, development and promotion of innovative eco-friendly alternatives across various sectors of development.
Earth Care Awards emphasizes on commitment and innovation towards climate friendly processes, operations, and promotion of environment friendly innovations that can be easily scaled-up for adoption. The objective behind these awards is to maximize resource efficiency and strengthen technical capabilities, institutional mechanisms, locally scalable interventions, community resilience, knowledge dissemination, synergy and partnerships, and foster the management commitment to such practises.”
The submissions received until mid-June will be evaluated by a distinguished jury comprising Dr R.A. Mashelkar, F.R.S. President of Global Research Alliance; Kartikeya V Sarabhai, Founder Director of Centre of Environment Education; Rajendra Shende, Chairperson of TERRE; Ms Aneeta Benninger, Executive Director at CDSA; Mr Rajat Gupta, Director of McKinsey and Company; MrChandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of CSE; DrSuhasWani, Director of ICRISAT Development Centre; Dr. Ajay Mathur, Director General of TERI; Mr Ravi Singh, Secretary General & CEO of WWF-India; Ms Seema Arora, Dy. Director General of CII and DrRakesh KR Singh, Director of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute.