Deadline: 15-Sep-23
Is your organization pushing the boundaries of sustainable technology? Are you innovating to advance the climate agenda – and will your ideas scale for even bigger impact? Or perhaps a specific project has seen the implementation of new tech or a service innovation that is reducing your greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Capgemini wants to hear from you.
The Capgemini Nordic Sustainability Tech Award celebrates organizations across the Nordic region creating innovative technology solutions for a sustainable future. The urgency of the global climate crisis demands ground-breaking technology and IT service innovations that scale across industries. The Capgemini Nordic Sustainability Tech Award celebrates the inspirational tech pioneers pushing the boundaries of sustainable IT and its role in limiting the environmental and social impact of climate change.
The award reflects Capgemini’s own commitment to achieving carbon neutrality for its operations no later than 2025 and across its supply chain by 2030, as well as to becoming a net zero business by 2040.
Evaluation Criteria
Your nomination will be evaluated and scored based on key criteria:
- Scalability & Adoptability
- This criterion aims to assess whether your nominated project, product or service has the capacity to make an even bigger impact beyond your own organization or industry.
- Technology Leadership
- Simply by participating in the Sustainability Tech Award, you are demonstrating a commitment to sustainable IT. This criterion assesses your leadership position by considering the technology you’re deploying and the potential disruption in pursuit of sustainability ambitions.
- Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Impact
- The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has described the internationally agreed threshold of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels of global warming as “perilously close”. Urgent action is needed.
- How is your nomination helping to address the global climate change challenge?
- You should consider the primary basis for your nomination’s emissions reduction, such as whether it’s a new, more energy efficient production process, a ’greener’ end product, such as an electric vehicle, or perhaps a recyclable product at end-of-life.
- How will it achieve emissions reduction, for example through new or more efficient tech, a culture shift, or process change?
- The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has described the internationally agreed threshold of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels of global warming as “perilously close”. Urgent action is needed.
- Business Viability
- Explain if, when, and how the project, product or service is expected to become financially viable. They would like to understand how it is expected to generate improved value to your company, its market positioning and profitability. They also want to see quantitative reasoning to understand when the financial benefits are expected to materialize and overcome the costs.
- Other ESG Impacts
- Provide evidence of other environmental, social, and/or governance (ESG) impacts related to one or several of the areas covered by the 19 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Ends poverty in all its forms everywhere.
- End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
- Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages.
- Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all.
- Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls.
- Ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
- Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
- Promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
- Building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation.
- Reducing inequality within and among countries.
- Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
- Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns.
- Taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
- Conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
- Protecting, restoring and promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managing forests, combatting desertification, and halting and reversing land degradation and halting biodiversity loss.
- Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
- Strengthening the means of implementation and revitalizing the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
- Provide evidence of other environmental, social, and/or governance (ESG) impacts related to one or several of the areas covered by the 19 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
For more information, visit Capgemini.
