Supplier Awards
ITM has created a set of awards for environmentally proactive supplier work. These are undertaken via yearly submissions to ITM, judged by a specially selected panel.
Project ICARUS Environmental Supplier Awards 2009/10
The Project ICARUS Supplier Environmental Awards judging panel was appointed by the Project ICARUS Advisory Group and met on 24th September 2009.
The judging panel, chaired by Dr Keith Mason, Director of the Business Travel Research Centre at Cranfield University was made up of travel and environmental experts:
- Dr Emma Harvey - International Centre for Responsible Tourism, Leeds Metropolitan University
- Dr Rebecca Hawkins - Centre for Environmental Studies in the Hospitality Industry, Oxford Brooks University
- Dr Paul Hooper - Centre for Air Transport and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Tim Johnson - Director, Aviation Environment Federation
- Toby Kent - Sustainability and Climate Change Team, PwC
- Prof Peter Morrell - Dept of Air Transport, Cranfield University
The panel considered submissions from airlines, hotels, rail operators, ground transport operators, travel management companies, consultancies and technology providers. Airlines that made submissions this year accounted for nearly 70% of UK airline capacity.
The submissions were judged against five key criteria, being :
1) Innovation
2) Leadership
3) Time-resilience
4) Scalability/Transferability
5) Case study material
In the third year of ICARUS' Supplier Awards, the judges were looking for serious commitment by companies to develop sustainable business practices. Evidence was sought in terms to leadership by senior management to their employees and engagement with stakeholder. Companies ought to be using suitable metrics to measure the impact of their policies on their trading environment. Setting realistic but challenging targets to reduce environmental impacts are key in order to drive change. Companies also need to monitor their performance to ensure that targets are being achieved.
When judging submissions across a range of categories is difficult to compare like with like, however, across the categories the judges looked for a high level of performance, commitment, innovation and future ambition of the products or services that were being judged. These considerations were also made in light of the quality of the submissions of the winners in 2007 and 2008/9. And thus if the high level was not achieved in one category then an award was not made this year.
