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Honouring local efforts to tackle climate change

HSBC along with The Daily Star announces the Climate Awards 2010, that recognises and promotes individuals and institutions that are working towards adaptation, mitigation and research for climate change in Bangladesh. The deadline for applications is August 31, 2010.

HSBC, the first carbon neutral bank, seeks to promote environmental preservation through worldwide projects and programmes. The Daily Star, the country's largest English newspaper, is also committed to the cause of managing climate change in Bangladesh.

The "HSBC - The Daily Star Climate Awards" is being introduced to recognise and promote individuals and institutions that are working towards adaptation, mitigation and research for climate change in Bangladesh, and also operating environment friendly business operations. Open to majority owned Bangladeshi companies and Bangladeshi individuals, the awards will be given in four categories:

Climate change adaptation: for public, private sectors, NGO/CBOs etc.

Climate change mitigation: for public, private sectors, NGO/CBOs etc.

Climate change research and knowledge management: for educational/research institutes, researchers, public, private sectors, NGO/CBOs etc.

Green Business Entrepreneurships: mainstream businesses with environment friendly operations

Organisations, institutions, individuals or businesses can submit their nominations for multiple projects in multiple categories. However, nomination for each project and category must be submitted separately. Organisations and institutions seeking to receive the awards must be majority Bangladesh owned.

For individual nominations, only Bangladesh nationals would be considered eligible. For all award nominations, compliance to all applicable environmental and other legal regulations of Bangladesh would be a basic criterion.

Categories:

Nomination are welcome for the respective categories: