Climate Change Champion Award
We are delighted to be running Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards in 2023 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 it for?
A new Award 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 sponsors this Award.
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 2023 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 CarbonStore Trophy will be available at the discretion of the judges to the Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards’ 2023 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. Supporting 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 CCCA Entry Form & Information (Word) version or
- download CCCA Entry Form & Information (PDF) version
Closing date for entries: now closed for 2023. Any late entries will not be considered.
More info …
See list of previous winners here >>
Contact person:
Jean Nairn
Scotland’s Finest Woods
c/o 1 Ravelston House Loan, Edinburgh EH4 3LY
Tel: 07954 847055
Email: admin@sfwa.co.uk
Socials: Twitter; LinkedIn
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