Golden Peacock Environment Management Award

The Golden Peacock Environment Management International Award is the coveted and prestigious recognition you and your industry would certainly like to have and can definitely strive to win for environment management.

 The World Environment Foundation (WEF) takes pride that it could institute the Award in 1998 in furtherance of its aims and objectives.  It is inviting hereby applications for the 2002 Awards related to performance during the year April 1, 2002 to March 31, 2003.

Why This Award?
The unique feature of the World Environment Foundation (WEF), among its other aims and objectives of working in the field of conservation and development, is that it seeks to create awareness of and implement strategies for improving environmental management standards.  The emphasis is on development, management and on countrywide awareness of duties of individuals and corporations to maintain ecological balance by minimizing adverse environmental impact while carrying out industrial and business activity and aim towards sustainable growth.  To this end, the WEF instituted Golden Peacock Environment Awards for best management of environmental issues by the industries.

Salient Features of the Awards

The Golden Peacock Environment Management Award named after India’s national bird, the Peacock, is bestowed annually.

The award is designed to encourage and recognise total improvement in environment management in industrial enterprises both in the manufacturing as well as in the service sectors during the year ending on the 31st of March of the Award Year.

The industrial enterprises in India eligible to compete for this award may belong to any of the following manufacturing and service categories:

  • Central / State Public Sector undertakings / cooperatives.
  • Privatecorporations/companiesStatutory/Authorities/Boards/Corporations.
  • Service and research establishments for industries including power sector, hospitals & hotels.

The award will be given separately for the following two categories:

Large-scale enterprises (major industries) &
Medium cum small-scale enterprises/industries

The norms for categorization are the same as those prescribed by the Government of India.

Each award winner will receive a trophy along with a certificate.  The winner may use the Award logo on printed and promotional material of his enterprise.

What the award is about

The award is in recognition of the successes achieved by an industry in managing its environmental concerns.  It will also identify quality management of environment that makes a real difference in protecting the environment.

The total and quality management of its environmental concerns by an industry competing and applying for the award will be evaluated as per a proforma drawn up by the WEF with the help of experts in the field.  The proforma would be annexed to the main application form, which may be obtained from the office of the WEF by sending a request for it as per the Preliminary Application Form proforma given herein.

Each participant applying for the award would be immensely benefited by the exercise it would undertake to fill in and meet the requirements of the proforma for evaluation irrespective of whether it wins an award in a particular year or not.  All enterprises/organizations joining this Award-winning exercise would also have the advantage of gaining some valuable insight into their own management, evaluation and monitoring operations from the assessment which would be made by the voluntary, friendly and expert panel of judges at virtually no cost.

What would the judges assess

As the Award is designed to recognise excellence and the best available model for the industries in a given year in the field of total and quality management of the environmental concerns they should and do have, the judges would assess the different aspects of environmental management listed in the Proforma annexed to the main application form as are relevant for the applicant industry.  The assessment would be on an objective grading of the applicable issues of conservation/protection and improvement of environment in the organization during the year April 1, 2002 to March 31, 2003.

The environmental issues and concerns listed in the Proforma cover the following:

  • All these may not apply to any particular industry.  The evaluation and grading would be done by the panel of judges on the basis of the issues/concerns that are relevant to the particular industry.
  • Status of the Environmental Statement/Audit. – Validity of the legally required consents.
  • Adequacy of the facilities for treatment / disposal of effluents / emissions / wastes.
  • Handling and management of hazardous substances / wastes.
  • Emergency preparedness for industrial accidents / chemical hazards.
  • Adequacy of environmental quality monitoring.
  • Specific activities relating to adoption / development of clean technology, reduction / recycling of effluents / emissions / wastes, reduction in consumption of water / power/ raw materials.
  • Environment-friendly improvements in housekeeping, plantation in and around the industry, I development of eco-label / environment-friendly products.
  • Training / awareness activities in environmental protection, both in-house and for the neighbourhood / society.

For further details please send e-mail to the Award Secretariate or visit www.goldenpeacockawards.com website.