Category 4

Best Practices Award in Addressing Climate Change and Reducing Pollution

This category caters for solutions addressing climate change, pollution reduction, and the protection of a thriving biodiversity including long-term governance mechanics, stakeholder participation and circular economy.

Topics Covered

1. Resilience to climate-related hazards and natural disasters
2. Climate change integration of policies, planning & management
3. Education and awareness-raising
4. Freshwater ecosystems
5. Desertification, land degradation
6. Waste management
7. Sustainable lifestyles
8. Marine pollution

Potential applicants are expected to address, among others:

Climate change & energy

• Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
• Promote renewable energy
• Increase energy efficiency of buildings and transportation
• Raise awareness on climate change impact and mitigation

Pollution, waste & land degradation

• Reduce waste generation
• Well govern the environment at all levels
• Reduce marine pollution of all kinds
• Contribute significantly to achieving land degradation neutral world

Sustainable lifestyles

• Increase awareness of sustainable development and lifestyles
• Encourage people to make sustainable change to lifestyles