Excellence in Climate, Environment, and Social Outcomes Award

A professional category award

About this award

This award celebrates projects which provide tangible benefits to addressing the climate and biodiversity emergencies. This may be in the form of low-impact designs, specifications for reduced embodied carbon, afforestation strategies, or other approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the efficient use of natural resources. The submission will also demonstrate tangible social benefits and outcomes.

This award is open to different types of landscape works, including (but not necessarily limited to):

  • Assessment or research
  • Planning document
  • New process or intervention
  • Design: concept/outline
  • Design: detailed/technical
  • Design implementation
  • Management strategy

Entries have now closed

Beckenham Place Park East by BDP © Wanying Peng BDP
Beckenham Place Park East by BDP © Nick Caville

Judging criteria

In selecting an eventual winner, the judges will focus especially on the degree to which the entry:

  • has evidence of the role of the LA in leading or influencing the project to deliver measures to tackle the climate and biodiversity emergencies
  • has evidence as to how sustainability, minimising carbon footprint, climate change resilience and efficient use and management of resources has informed all aspects of planning, design and implementation of the scheme
  • has evidence as to how the scheme has overcome site challenges in an innovative or creative way
  • provides evidence of wider social benefits

Limitations

This award is open to individual Chartered, Fellow or Academic members of the Landscape Institute or an office, department or section headed by a Chartered member of the LI.

To enter this Award:

  • The work may be of any scale
  • Part of the awarded activity must have taken place between July 2022 and July 2026
  • The work may be a stand-alone project or form part of a larger project 
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