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Winners & Academy 2011

Many businesses today measure their emissions, energy consumption, and other sustainability metrics. Yet they still lack context regarding what's meaningful in terms of change and what's achievable. The Gigaton Awards aim to provide inspiration for business to progress to the billion ton carbon reduction per sector needed to help stabilize the climate - and show cutting edge initiatives across the global corporate community. View the 2011 Winners below:

Consumer Discretionary

Tesco plc (U.K.) for its work on supply chain emission reduction and Knowledge Hub showcasing pilots of carbon reduction plans and training.
Utilities

Centrica (UK), for its energy for a low-carbon world program -- enabling consumers to generate their own low-carbon energy and energy efficiency.
Industrials

Schneider Electric (France), for its leadership in energy efficiency and the development of the smart grid.

Energy

SunTech, for its contributions to reducing global carbon emissions.
Telecommunications

Swisscom (Switzerland), for its portfolio of green ICT products and services -- supporting a more sustainable work and lifestyle for its customers.
Consumer Staples

Philips (Netherlands), for its EcoDesign process -- identifying environmental impact in terms of energy efficiency, hazardous substances, take-back, recycling, weight and lifetime reliability.

Academy 2011

Winners of the Gigaton Awards are selected by an independent Academy compromised of business and civic leaders in the environmental sustainability movement and CEOs of Global 500 companies.

Nils Smedegaard Andersen
CEO, Maersk
Sir Richard Branson
Founder, Virgin Group
Mike Brown
CEO, Nedbank Group
James Cameron
Vice Chairman, Climate Change Capital
Ret. General Wesley Clark
Founder, Wesley K Clark & Associates
Juan Costa Climent
Global Leader for Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Ernst & Young
Kevin Conrad
Chief REDD+ negotiator and special envoy on climate, Papua New Guinea
Yvo de Boer
Former DG UNFCCC; KMPG
John Elkington
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Volans
Jose Maria Figueres
Chairman, Carbon War Room
Ashok Khosla
President, IUCN Council
Barbara Kux
Member of the Managing Board and Chief Sustainability Officer, Siemens
Mindy Lubber
President, Ceres
Strive Masiyiwa
Founder and CEO, Econet Wireless
Professor Jacqueline McGlade
Executive Director, European Environment Agency
Jens Nielsen
Founder, World Climate Limited
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri
Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Christina Page
Director of Climate and Energy Strategy, Yahoo
Mary Robinson
Former President, Ireland; Former UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
Paul Simpson
CEO, Carbon Disclosure Project
Jochen Zeitz
CEO and Chairman, Puma

Winners & Academy 2011

Consumer Discretionary

Utilities

Industrials

Energy

Telecommunications

Consumer Staples

Academy 2011