ESG Leaders Recognized at 2022 SEAL Business Sustainability Awards
Announcements
2022-12-12 00:00
Singapore
December 12, 2022 – SEAL Awards today announced the winners of the 2022 SEAL Business Sustainability Awards, honoring their leadership, innovation, and commitment to sustainable business practices.
2022 SEAL Sustainability Award honorees ranged from global brands (like Disneyland, General Electric, GM, Microsoft, Oracle, Proctor & Gamble, and Samsung) to high-growth start-ups and scale-ups (like AiDash, Flock Freight, Optoro, and PATH).
“Companies have a unique opportunity and responsibility to drive environmental progress where politics cannot. Our corporate sustainability awards celebrate organizations that embrace the responsibility to effect positive change,” commented Matt Harney, SEAL Awards’ Founder. “Most business sustainability initiatives are unglamorous and invisible to the general public despite having significant positive impacts – we hope our awards bring some much-needed recognition to both the activities and the leaders behind them.”
The event featured four distinct sustainability award categories:
SEAL Environmental Initiative Award
This award honors specific environmental and sustainability initiatives.
The Environmental Initiative winners were:
ADM
ADM – Providing Economic and Sustainable Solutions Through Regenerative Agriculture
Allegion
Allegion Water Savings Project – Baja Region. Utilization of engineering and technology to reduce site water demand
Ameresco
Ameresco – Establishing Canada’s first carbon-neutral school
Anuvia Plant Nutrients
Anuvia Plant Nutrients – high-efficiency, sustainable bio-based fertilizers for the agriculture, turf, and lawncare industries.
Disneyland Resort
Disneyland Resort – Project Zero: Competition breeds innovation to enable zero waste buildings at Disneyland
Edifecs
Edifecs: Sustainability Assessment and Business Process Change
Equinix
Equinix Sustainability Program
Flex Ltd.
Flextronics – Water Conservation
General Electric
General Electric – Greenhouse Gas reduction in specific projects for the energy and aviation sectors
GM
GM Renewable Energy Journey
Gotham Greens
Gotham Greens – Transforming How and Where Fresh Food is Grown
Herbaland
Herbaland – The First Vitamin Gummy Brand to go Compostable
Humanscale
Humanscale – Changing the impacts of manufacturing
Jebsen Group
Jebsen Group – Jebsen Motors’ road to carbon neutrality and beyond
King Yuan Fu Packaging Co., LTD
King Yuan Fu – A Pioneer of ESG in Plastic Manufacturing
Kipster
Kipster – Upcycled chicken feed for low-carbon eggs
Kontoor Brands
Kontoor’s (Wrangler & Lee) “Indigood® Program” – Reducing freshwater use in the making of the world’s favorite fabric, denim
Liverpool Football Club
The Red Way – A comprehensive approach to sustainability within sport
Manulife
Manulife – Building a Better Business to Better the World
P&G
P&G Family Care Brands Ambition: Protect, Grow, Restore
Sappi North America
Sappi North America – Ideas That Matter Grant Program
Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco – Confronting Climate Change with Low Carbon Intensity Technologies
SLB
SLB Transition Technologies – Quantifiably reducing footprint in oil & gas operations
Sodexo
Sodexo – GOALympics Waste Reduction Games
United Development Company
UDC – The Pearl Island Environmental Initiatives
Vertical Bridge
Vertical Bridge Achieves Carbon Neutrality for 3rd Year
Yealands Wine Group
Yealands Biodiversity Plan
Yealands Wine Group – Journey to a Carbon-Positive Future
SEAL Sustainable Innovation Award
This award recognizes innovations that represent game-changing ideas that bring us to a more sustainable future.
The Sustainable Innovation Award winners were:
3Oe Scientific
Precision-Controlled Ozonated Water to Improve Human Health
AiDash
AiDash – Creating a greener, cleaner, safer planet with satellites and AI
Bay Ecotarium
Bay Ecotarium: Climate & Sustainable Ocean Living Museum
Flock Freight
Freight pooling technology that finds and fills trucks’ empty spaces
Gousto and Xampla
Gousto and Xampla’s world’s-first edible stock cube
Honeywell
Solstice Portfolio, A Powerful New Emissions-Efficient Alternative to HFCs
Microsoft
Microsoft Circular Centers – Cloud hardware circularity at scale
QTS Data Centers
QTS FREEdom – Sustainability-centric data center design for the worlds’ most sophisticated companies.
Sesame Solar
Sesame Solar – World’s first 100% renewably-powered Mobile Nanogrid for Emergency Response
Sherwin-Williams
valPure V70 – a safe and sustainable novel non-BPA can coating
SoCal Gas
SoCal Gas – [H2] Innovation Experience
Timberline Solar
Integrated solar roofing using the world’s first nailable solar shingle
SEAL Sustainable Product Award
The SEAL Sustainable Product Award honors innovative and impactful products that are literally “purpose-built” for a sustainable future
The Sustainable Product Award winners were:
Acellent Technologies, Inc
Acellent: IIoT 4.0 SHM RAPID System for Oil and Gas Pipelines
AMD
AMD: 30×25 Energy Efficiency Goal for Accelerated Computing
Areteans
CZERO’s AI and Automation
Cloud Paper
Cloud Paper Bamboo Toilet Paper
Del Pacifico Seafoods
Del Pacifico Seafoods: Sustainable Shrimp
Dow
Dow SYL-OFF™ SL 184 Solventless Release Coating
Envision Digital
EnOS™ Ark
Humanscale
Humanscale: Path Task Chair
IBM
IBM: LinuxONE Emperor 4
Infinite Athletic
Infinite Athletic: The first double circular sportswear brand
Lattice Semiconductor
The Lattice Avant™ Platform
Liverpool Football Club
Home Bear: 100% recycled materials used for plush bear toy
Oracle
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: A More Sustainable Computing Platform in the Cloud
PATH
PATH: The First 100% Refillable Bottled Water in a Sturdy Aluminum Bottle
Redwood Logistics
Redwood Hyperion – complete visibility into your freight carbon emissions
Safety-Kleen, A Clean Harbors Company
Safety-Kleen, KLEEN+ Base Oils – Infinite Sustainability
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics: Galaxy devices made with discarded fishing nets
Stasher
Stasher: Reusable Silicone Bowls
Teva
Teva ReFlip – Sustainably-minded sandal
TIPA
TIPA: Compostable Packaging Solutions
Verde Environmental Technologies, Inc.
Deterra® Drug Deactivation and Disposal System
Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer Enablon Vision Platform
WSP
Groundwater Plume Analytics®
SEAL Sustainable Service Award
The SEAL Sustainable Service Award recognizes innovative services that set a new standard for sustainability.
The Sustainable Service Award winners were:
ABM
ABM – The National Leader in eMobility Design, Installation, and Maintenance Solutions
Berge Bulk
Berge Bulk – Carbon neutral cargo delivery for dry bulk shipping
Convoy
Convoy – Helping Shippers and Carriers of All Sizes Reduce Empty Miles and Carbon Emissions
CyrusOne
CyrusOne’s Full-circle Colocation Services
Flock Freight
Freight pooling technology that finds and fills trucks’ empty spaces
Green Badger
Green Badger – Leading SaaS platform for automating sustainability in the built environment
Installnet Ecoserv
Installnet Ecoserv: Scaling Sustainable Workspace Transformation
Optoro
Optoro: All-in-one technology that makes the retail returns process efficient and sustainable.
Veritree
veritree – the verification platform for restorative action
WSP
WSP’s Climate, Resilience & Sustainability Services
The 2022 award entry fees were contributed to SEAL’s Impact Campaigns, Environmental Journalism Award, and Environmental Research Grant programs.
Selected Sustainability Award Winner Perspectives:
Envision Digital Company: “We are honored and humbled for this recognition accorded. The transition to a zero carbon future presents complex undertaking and we would like to thank our customers and partners for their support and recognizing the value our digital system brings to their decarbonization journey.” — Michael Ding, Global Executive Director, Envision Digital Company.
Seal Awards
SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement & Leadership) Awards is an environmental advocacy organization that honors leadership through our business sustainability awards & environmental journalism awards while funding research and pursuing our own environmental impact campaigns. The SEAL Awards core pillars are: Business Sustainability Awards – honors the most sustainable companies in the world, like Adidas, AMD, Cisco, and Tide Environmental Journalism Awards – representative past winners include journalists from Guardian, New York Times, and Grist Impact Campaigns – representative campaigns include “#UpTheCup” and “Eco Rewards” Environmental Research Grants – we funded a researcher in Ethiopia for 2022.
Envision Digital
Envision Digital changed its name to Univers in September 2023. All mentions of Envision Digital now refer to Univers. Envision Digital is the world’s leading net zero technology partner for enterprises, governments, and cities, with the goal of accelerating progress towards carbon-free energy and improving quality of life for all of humanity. The company’s EnOSTM decarbonization platform manages over 220 million devices and 560 Gigawatts of electricity, powering highly configurable, end to end IIOT solutions that use AI to reduce carbon emissions and costs, improve return on capital, and simplify reporting and compliance. The company has over 1,000 employees and 14 offices across the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Malaysia, China, Japan and the United States, with headquarters in Singapore. Ash Lim Global VP of Marketing ash.lim@univers.com Cecilia MONTI Head of EMEA Marketing cecilia.monti@univers.com