CLIMB wins Sustainability Achievement of the Year Award 2023
Katarina Walter and Ruaridh Hägglund attended the award ceremony in Stockholm on October 17 when CLIMB was awarded the Sustainability Achievement of the Year 2023.
CLIMB, a new model for measuring and valuing biodiversity, is awarded the Sustainability Achievement of the Year 2023. Ecogain's CEO Katarina Walter and senior expert Ruaridh Hägglund were present to receive the award at the Sustainable Business Network's big Sustainability Day on 17 October in Stockholm.
- "CLIMB has been developed in collaboration with several major industry players. A unique initiative that makes biodiversity knowledge available to everyone so that companies can act preventively and responsibly," says Katarina Walter.
- "CLIMB is an important and effective tool that can help and facilitate users to make sustainable decisions with regard to biodiversity. The fact that it is also a collaboration between business, industry organizations, municipalities and authorities shows the strength of doing things together," says Erik Lindroth, Chairman of the Network for Sustainable Business.
Motivation of the jury:
"Nätverket för Hållbart Näringsliv has decided to award the Sustainability Achievement of the Year to CLIMB - a model for calculating biodiversity. CLIMB is based on a mathematical method and is developed in close collaboration between business, industry organizations, municipalities and authorities. At a time when six of the nine planetary boundaries are being exceeded, it is more important than ever to get concrete and take action. By making the tool free and accessible to all, CLIMB contributes to informed decisions and a sustainable future."
Accessible to all - for broad-based change
Since September 1, CLIMB has been openly available to everyone, with the aim of promoting biodiversity on a larger scale. Ecogain has developed CLIMB together with several leading companies in Sweden and with support from Swedish Mining Innovation.
- "CLIMB has already proven its effectiveness as a concrete resource for companies to identify and reduce their impact on nature. It is already used in several projects and we have also received legal validation that CLIMB is a reliable tool that works in practice," says Katarina Walter, CEO of Ecogain.
The Sustainability Achievement of the Year is a special prize awarded by the Board of the Sustainable Business Network to recognize and highlight concrete examples of sustainability in business and society. Recipients of the award can be an industry initiative, a project, a collaboration, a business model, an organization or something completely different.
ABOUT CLIMB
CLIMB is a collaborative project with Ecogain, Talga, Vattenfall, Sveriges Bergmaterialindustri, Skanska, Svenska Kraftnät, Svemin, Boliden, LKAB, Specialfastigheter, Skellefteå Kraft, Heidelberg Materials.
Over 200 people got involved and provided important feedback.
An Advisory Board with representatives from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, SLU, Lund University, Chalmers, IIASA, Anthesis, Skellefteå Kraft and Ecogain has been continuously involved in the method development work.
The project is part of the Strategic Innovation Program Swedish Mining Innovation and is a joint effort by Vinnova, Formas and the Swedish Energy Agency.
