The 2004 GLOBE Award Winners
The GLOBE Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the
third annual GLOBE Awards for Environmental Excellence.
| The Corporate Competitiveness
Award |
Toyota In Canada |
| The Industry Association Award for
Environmental Performance |
Canadian Urban Transit Association |
| The Corporate Award for Technology
Innovation and Application |
Xantrex Technology Inc. |
| The Industry Award for Export
Performance |
Carmanah Technologies Inc. |
| The Capital Markets Award for Sustainable
Investment & Banking |
Innovest Strategic Value Advisors |
| The Award for Excellence in Brownfield
Redevelopment |
Canada Lands Companys Moncton Shops
Project |
|
THE CORPORATE COMPETITIVENESS AWARD | top
Whether through expansion, acquisition, or a change in strategic
focus, corporations are seeking ways to meet global environmental
challenges while maintaining and enhancing shareholder value. This
award is presented to a corporation with a proven record of
environmental stewardship that has materially contributed to
economic competitiveness through a commitment to environmental
excellence.
Winner: Toyota In
Canada
Toyota has been doing business in Canada for
almost 40 years. The company employs more than 5,000 people
directly, while more than 8,000 people work at independent
dealerships.
The company's operations are national in scope, and encompass a
wide range of activities through all stages of Toyota's products'
life cycles. Products include Toyota and Lexus cars and trucks, and
Toyota Industrial Equipment lift trucks. Toyota has embraced a
vision for Canada combining a commitment to produce vehicles that
minimize their impact on the environment with a desire to make
positive contributions to Canadian society.
Finalists:
- Alcan Inc.
- DuPont Canada
- Suncor Energy Inc.
- Toyota In Canada
THE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
PERFORMANCE | top
Supported by the Government of
Canada
Environmental leadership often transcends the individual company
to embrace an entire sector or industry. This award is presented to
an association representing and industry sector that has shown
leadership by going beyond regulatory compliance to develop a
collective commitment to improved environmental performance through
research, development and education in partnership with
governments, non-governmental organizations, communities and other
stakeholders.
Winner: Canadian
Urban Transit Association
The Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA)
has a mission and goals that are built around the notion of
environmental sustainability inherent to public transportation. The
Association has pursued this quest with the promotion of innovation
through the display and showcasing of industry improvements;
emphasis on environmental performance; development of partnerships
with government and other stakeholders and development and pursuit
of international industry partnerships; and the promotion of
government policy that supports sustainable urban transportation.
These efforts culminated in 2003 with CUTA becoming a signatory to
a global Charter on Sustainable Development.
Finalists:
- Canadian Steel Producers Association
- Canadian Urban Transit Association
- The Canadian Plastics Industry Association
THE CORPORATE AWARD FOR TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AND/OR
APPLICATION | top
Supported by the Government of
Canada
Increasingly today, new and innovative technologies are being
developed and applied to solve pressing environmental problems.
This award is presented to a company that has demonstrated
outstanding technical ingenuity in the development and/or
application of an innovative technology or process with a
significant environmental application.
Winner: Xantrex Technology
Inc.
Xantrex Technology Inc. develops, manufactures
and markets advanced power electronic and control products for the
distributed, mobile and programmable power markets. The company's
products convert raw electrical power from any central,
distributed, or backup power source into high-quality power for use
in businesses or homes. For the renewable energy sector, Xantrex
designs and manufactures advanced power electronics that convert
power from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, and
advanced energy and storage technologies such as fuel cells, into
electrical power. Privately owned with 500 employees and revenues
of $105 million US in 2002, Xantrex is headquartered in Vancouver,
British Columbia.
Finalists:
- EcoTrans Technologies
- GPS Gas Protection System Inc.
- Xantrex Technology Inc.
THE INDUSTRY AWARD FOR EXPORT PERFORMANCE | top
Sponsored by
The global demand for environmental technologies and services
continues to expand and Canadian companies have demonstrated that
they can succeed in this very competitive sector. This award is
presented to an environmental technology or service company that
has demonstrated the drive, talent and innovative spirit to have
successfully carved out a place in the global environmental
marketplace.
Winner: Carmanah
Technologies Inc.
Carmanah Technologies Inc., headquartered in
Victoria, British Columbia has rapidly become a world leader in the
design, manufacture and supply of solar powered LED (light emitting
diode) lighting solutions.
An alternative energy manufacturer, Carmanah specializes in
patented, maintenance-free, solar-powered LED lighting solutions
for the marine, transit, roadway, railway, and aviation markets
around the globe. Carmanah's solar-powered self-contained products
operate at nearly any location on Earth under all environmental
conditions. They do not require connection to infrastructure and,
due to their unique design; do not require scheduled maintenance or
servicing for up to 5 years. Since 1998, more than 85,000 units
have been installed in 100 countries providing cost-effective,
alternative energy solutions for a variety of commercial lighting
requirements.
Finalists:
- Carmanah Technologies Inc.
- Fueling Technologies Inc.
- Lotek Wireless Inc.
- Trojan Technologies Inc.
THE CAPITAL MARKETS AWARD FOR SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT
& BANKING | top
The Capital Markets Award for Sustainable Investment &
Banking is a new addition to the GLOBE Awards for Environmental
Excellence. The Capital Markets Award represents an explicit
recognition that financial markets are increasingly integrating
environment factors into investment and banking decisions, and are
placing more capital into sustainable technologies and ventures.
Canadian fund managers, bank, brokers, venture capital companies
and investment advisors are developing new financial instruments,
analytical tools and targeted funds that merit consideration for
the Capital Markets Award for Sustainable Investment &
Banking.
Winner: Innovest
Strategic Value Advisors
Innovest Strategic Value Advisors is an
international investment research firm specializing in analysing
"non-traditional" drivers of risk and shareholder value, including
companies' performance on environmental, social, and strategic
governance issues. Several independent commentators have recognized
Innovest recently as the leading firm in the world in this
area.
Founded in 1998 the firm currently has over US $1.1 billion
under structured sub-advisory mandates with asset management
partners including State Street Global Advisors.
Innovest also provides custom portfolio analysis and research to
more than thirty major institutional investors including Hermes,
Schroders, Cazenove, and Rockefeller & Co., as well as to
leading pension funds in the United States, the U.K., continental
Europe, and Scandinavia. Innovest currently has clients in over
twenty countries.
Finalists:
- Cleantech Venture Network
- Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
- The Ethical Funds Company
THE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN BROWNFIELD
REDEVELOPMENT | top
Many local governments and private sector companies are
realizing the economic development opportunities that brownfields
present and have made great strides in returning these idle
properties to productive use. This award is presented to a local
government or private sector company or consortium, which has
demonstrated outstanding leadership in transforming a brownfield
site into a thriving, revitalized community or business area.
Winner: Canada Lands Company's
Moncton Shops Project
Canada Lands Company is a self-financing,
commercial Crown corporation that optimizes financial and community
value for the Government of Canada through the management,
development or timely sale of strategic federal properties no
longer required for program purposes.
Canada Lands Company's Moncton Shops Project, one of
Canada's largest brownfield properties, epitomizes these principles
through value creation, stimulation of employment, private sector
investment, new housing, refurbished institutional units and City
of Moncton owned recreational sports complex.
From sea to sea, remediation of environmental challenged
Canadian federal properties over the past decade has become a
hallmark of Canada Lands Company that has provided unique green
urban spaces while creating lasting legacies for Canadian
residents.
Finalists:
- Canada Lands Company's Moncton Shops Project
- Low-level Radioactive Waste Management Office's Port Hope
Waterworks Remediation Project
- Nexen Inc. And Nexen Chemical's Squamish Chemical Plant
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