Climate Change Champion Award
Closing date for entries:
UPDATE – You can submit your entry
until 23:59 on Friday 31st May 2024.
We are delighted to be running Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards in 2024 again – entries are now open. We will provide any updates about the Awards’ programme here on the website or through our social channels – Twitter and LinkedIn.
What is the Climate Change Champion Award for?
This Award was introduced in 2021 to mark the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) being held in Glasgow. The important role of forests was underlined in the Glasgow Leader’s Declaration on forests and land use supported by more than 140 countries. Scotland’s forests and woodlands can have an important role in mitigating, and responding to, climate change.
This exciting new Award aims to discover the very best examples of such woodlands and how knowledge and experience can be shared to raise awareness. CarbonStore was the sponsor of this Award initially.
Who can enter?
Entries will be sought from across Scotland and are open to any forest, woodland or a school or pre-school climate change related learning project. Could the exemplary work you are doing related to forests and woodlands addressing climate change make you one of this new Awards’ early winners?
Eligible entries will be where Scotland’s forests and woodlands can demonstrate they have an important role in the:
- mitigation of climate change; and/or
- adaptation to the changing climate with climate smart management; and/or
- sharing of knowledge/information or raising awareness (including education) about climate change.
Full entry criteria for 2024 are in the entry form – see link below.
Judging
The judges aim to visit short-listed entries during April/May. You will be contacted by the judges directly regarding any site visit during April – early May.
Prizes
A £1,000 cash prize together with one year’s custody of the superb trophy will be available at the discretion of the judges to the Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards’ 2024 Climate Change Champion. The winner and any commended entries will receive a certificate and a special commemorative wooden display plaque recording their achievement.
How to enter Climate Change Champion Award
A very short, simple entry form is to be completed and in no more than 1,000 words state why you think your entry could make a worthy winner of this timely and prestigious new Award and be an exemplar to others by providing relevant information specific to the entry criteria. Supplementary information such as visuals (e.g. photographs or weblinks or short videos) and any promotional material, if available, that will help our judges make their decision are to be provided.
- download Word document here or
- download PDF version here
Closing date for entries:
UPDATE – You can submit your entry until 23:59 on Friday 31st May 2024. Do you have a winning project in 2024?
More info …
See list of previous winners here >>
Contact person:
Jean Nairn
Scotland’s Finest Woods
1 Ravelston House Loan, Edinburgh EH4 3LY
Tel: 07954 847055
Email: admin@sfwa.co.uk
Socials: Twitter; LinkedIn
