CONGRATULATIONS TO THE edie AWARDS 2026 WINNERS & FINALISTS
Entries for the 2027 scheme open late-October 2026. Stay in the loop to be the first to hear when categories and criteria become available.
SPECIAL AWARDS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
SIR DAVID KING
As the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2000-2007 and the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change from 2013-2017, Sir David raised the need for all countries to act on climate change. Watch David's opening speech here.
COMPANIES & ORGANISATIONS
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: WILDFARMED
FINALISTS:
Arco
BHC
Blooming Haus
Bupa
Crown Paints
DPD UK
Ericsson
Harrison Spinks
Interface
Kingspan Group
Manchester City Football Club
Medik8
Weightmans
Wildfarmed
INDUSTRY PARTNER
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: CLIMATE IMPACT PARTNERS
FINALISTS:
Anthesis
BDO
Carbon Limiting Technologies
Centrica Business Solutions
Climate Impact Partners
Ecologi
osapiens
Tata Consultancy Services
Titan Eco
INVESTOR
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: GREEN ANGEL VENTURES
FINALISTS:
Broadlake
Green Angel Ventures
Tribe Impact Capital
SME
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: WEBMART
FINALISTS:
Baxter Freight
Carbon Limiting Technologies
Eight Group
FuturePlus
Oritain
Osprey Charging Network
Terraformation
Webmart
Wildfarmed
Win-Win
B CORP
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: ECOLOGI
FINALISTS:
Bennetts Associates
Broadlake
Ecologi
Lovat Parks
CONSULTANCY
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: SRE
FINALISTS:
Advito
Bioregional
Chronos Sustainability
Cognitud
EVORA
Incendium Consulting
SEC Newgate UK
Seismic
SRE
PEOPLE & LEADERSHIP
ESG STRATEGY
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: BUPA - Better World Strategy
FINALISTS:
Bespak - 2024 - 2025 ESG Strategy
Beyondly - ESG Strategy
Bupa - Better World Strategy
Crown Paints
DPD - Sustainable Future
JCDecaux - ESG Strategy
ofi (olam food ingredients) - Choices for Change
Our Coop - A member-led ESG strategy
The V&A and BDO - The V&A's Climate Action Plan
Willmott Dixon - Now or Never. Our decisive decade
SUSTAINABILITY LEADER
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: BEN WIELGUS, Informa
FINALISTS:
Benedicta Bakpa - Bespak
Shannon Berry - Principle Cleaning Services
Emma Linney-Taylor - Harrison Spinks
Anna Maclean - SRE
Smruti Naik-Jones - Deloitte North and South Europe
Geoff Tomlinson - FSEW
Ben Wielgus - Informa
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY:
FUNDING & LIVELIHOODS
WINNER: MADE FOR A WOMEN - Made for Change
FINALISTS:
Ahmad Tea - Hand Picked Profit Shared
Aviva & Citizens Advice - Building Financial Resilience Together
GUESS x Progetto Quid - A Better Future
Heathrow Airport & Fujitsu - Flight Path to a Greener Future
Hult Prize Foundation - 2025 Hult Prize Competition
Made For A Woman - Made For Change
Monica Vinader - Women Empowerment and Leadership Training
National Gas - Tackling Loneliness Initiative
Simba Sleep - Dreamspace
DEI PROJECT
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: ATREVIA & BRICO DEPOT IBERIA - We Build Together
FINALISTS:
ATREVIA and Brico Depôt Iberia - We Build Together
Broadlake, TU Dublin and ODI - Entrepreneurship course for refugees
Holcim - LeanIn Girls in Iraq and Mexico
Sanofi - Accessibility Lounge: A Gateway to Inclusive Workplaces
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY:
THRIVING COMMUNITIES
WINNER: GROSVENOR - Greener Futures
FINALISTS:
Cadent Gas - Inspiring Fitness in the Community
Crown Paints
Dulux x the Community RePaint Network – a partnership driving sustainability and community benefit
Enerjisa Üretim - Tufanbeyli energy base from a just transition perspective
Grosvenor - Greener Futures
Informa - Walk the World
Laing O'Rourke - Everton Stadium: The People's Project
Metrocentre - Neighbourhood Project & Community Hub
Spacehive - Democratising community funding
BUSINESS LEADER
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: BILL SWAN, Recorra
FINALISTS:
Lance Hill - Eight Group
Jonathan Ly - Canary Wharf Group
Bill Swan - Recorra
Dimitri Theocharis - Ecologi
RISING
SUSTAINABILITY STAR
WINNER: MEGAN MONKMAN, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
FINALISTS:
Emily Coon - St Austell Brewery
Connor Duffy - Clean Growth Fund
Allegra Fortunato - Tecno International
Anoushka Harris - ABF Grocery Group
Polly Harrold - Santander UK
Megan Monkman - London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Yingxi Tang - Mercury Academy
Sophie Thirkell - Energy Networks Association
Zaynab Uddin - Principle Cleaning Services
Sehrish Wakil - Historic England
TEAM
OF THE YEAR
WINNER: BALFOUR BEATTY VINCI'S - Integrated Project Team
FINALISTS:
Balfour Beatty VINCI's - Integrated Project Team
Bespak - ESG Advisory Team
East West Rail Alliance - Environment and Sustainability Team
LIV Golf - Impact & Sustainability
LoneStar Leeds
VodafoneThree - Sustainable Business Team
Willmott Dixon - Energy Synergy team
PROJECTS & INNOVATIONS
PARTNERSHIP & COLLABORATION: CLEAN ENERGY PATHWAYS
WINNER: POWYS COUNTY COUNCIL, WARM WALES, ROBERT OWEN COMMUNITY BANKING FUND, SEVERN WYE ENERGY AGENCY, AGE CYMRU POWYS, CARE AND REPAIR POWYS, AND ECO PARTNERS - Warm Powys
FINALISTS:
Amey, Grid Edge and BMSI in partnership with National Highways - E60+ Energy Management System
EfficiencyIT and Wellcome Sanger Institute - Powering Genomic Data Centres
Enviromena and The University of Manchester - Medebridge Solar Farm
Good Energy and Kraken Technologies - Sustainable Partnership in Action
Kimberly-Clark UK & Ireland, Carlton Power and HYRO (Octopus Energy Generation & RES) - Green Hydrogen
Paratus and Low Carbon - World-first partnership for renewable revenue stability
Powys County Council, Warm Wales, Robert Owen Community Banking Fund, Severn Wye Energy Agency, Age Cymru Powys, Care and Repair Powys, and ECO Partners - Warm Powys
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council / Vital Energi - The Coed Ely Solar Farm
Severn Wye Energy Agency & NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board, with Gloucestershire County Council -Warmth on Prescription / NHS Retrofit
STAFF ENGAGEMENT & UPSKILLING INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
WINNER: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY - Nature Literacy Programme
FINALISTS:
Aligned Data Centers - More than Megawatts
Environment Agency - Nature Literacy Programme
Danone UK & Ireland - Engaging marketing and sales teams to unlock value from sustainability
London Gatwick - Be the Change: Sustainability Engagement Strategy
NatWest Group - ‘Connect, Educate, Spark’
Octopus Energy: Cultivating Green Talent through Upskilling and Engagement
PepsiCo and AimHi Earth - pep+ Champions Program
Sanofi - My Green Lab Certification – Bringing Sustainability to Science
Santander UK -Sustainability engagement programme
PARTNERSHIP & COLLABORATION: SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION
WINNER: ECOSURETY - Flexible Plastic Fund - FlexCollect Project
FINALISTS:
Blooming Haus - Petals to Impact with Confetti Club
Ecosurety - Flexible Plastic Fund - FlexCollect Project
Global Impact Coalition - Collaboration for a Net Zero Chemical Value Chain
Grosvenor - Greener Futures
Holcim & Elemental - Transforming buildings into carbon sinks
Polytag and Ocado Retail – Ecotrace Programme
Roadways, National Highways SEA, Jacobs, WSP, Nynas and Surrey County Council’s Merrow Laboratory – Cold Asphalt installation on the strategic road network
Santander UK - Homes, Skills, and Community
Volvo Car UK x Eden Project - Moving you Closer to Nature
SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT OF THE YEAR
WINNER: TILDA - Reducing the climate impacts of growing rice
FINALISTS:
Aviva - Supply Chain Decarbonisation Programme
Churchill Group - Supply chain resource hub
Danone UK & Ireland - Alpro's move to British oat sourcing
FSEW Greenflow - a pioneering global net zero freight service
Kingfisher - Sustainable Home Products Programme
LIV Golf - Sustainable Event Delivery
Recorra - Transformative Supply Chain Management
SMI | DOC Cleaning - Beyond Cleaning Range
Tilda - Reducing the climate impacts of growing rice
WATER, WASTE & RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
WINNER: NESTLE WATERS & PREMIUM BEVERAGES - Restoring water quality, biodiversity and supporting livelihoods
FINALISTS:
Alupro - Driving Aluminium Packaging Circularity
Carnival Corporation - Less Left Over
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners - Commitment to water stewardship in Great Britain
Elis & Unio - Waste to Resource: Innovation in Water Filtration
Geocycle - Scaling Municipal Solid Waste Sorting Stations
Lloyds Banking Group - Gallopping towards Zero Waste
Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages - Restoring water quality, biodiversity and supporting livelihoods
Tools with a Mission - Recycling tools to create livelihoods and reduce landfill
PRODUCT INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
WINNER: ROADWAYS - Cold asphalt installation on the strategic road network
FINALISTS:
4AIR - Assure SAF Registry
Abatable - The Abatable Platform
Advanced Electric Machines - High-Density Reluctance Motor
Amplify Goods - SUDZERØ
Diageo - Everpour
JCDecaux and the Community Heartbeat Trust - Life Saving Street Furniture
Lagan Specialist Infrastructure - Wastewater Treatment Hydrogen & Oxygen Demonstrator
Mixergy - Next-generation home energy system to cut energy bill by 30% with St Basils
RenEnergy - Saxon Air
Roadways - cold asphalt installation on the Strategic road network
Sage - Sage Earth Carbon Accounting Integration into Sage Accounting
Savills - ESG+ Platform
Stratasys - SAF™ ReLife™ PA12
SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING & COMMUNICTIONS
WINNER: LUMINOUS & SAGE - Showcasing global impact
FINALISTS:
Aviva and Brunswick - Aviva’s Transition Plan 2025
B4NZ and The Broadway Initiative - UK SME Voluntary Emissions Standard
Breitling - 2025 Breitling Sustainability Mission Report
Cory Group - Sustainability Reporting Suite
Danone UK & Ireland - Impact Report & communication
Fiba Renewables - We Renew the Future - 2024 Sustainability Report
GUESS?, Inc. - FY2024-2025 ESG Report: "It's in Our DNA"
Luminous & Sage - Showcasing global Impact
Maybank - From Transparency to Transformation
ofi - Driving industry impact through Cocoa Compass
AI IN ESG
AWARD
WINNER: ORCA AI CO-CAPTIAN - "Waze of the Seas"
FINALISTS:
Earthchain and Dulwich College - AI-Powered Carbon Accounting and emissions management
IFS - Planning and Scheduling Optimization
KEY ESG - AI-led sustainability intelligence
Orca AI Co-Captain – the world’s first “Waze of the Seas”
osapiens - AI for Sustainable Growth
NATURE & BIODIVESIRTY PROJECT OF THE YEAR
WINNER: TERRAFORMATION - Community-Based Biodiverse Reforestation
FINALISTS:
Balfour Beatty VINCI, Mott MacDonald SYSTRA DJV and HS2 (IPT Area North) - River Cole realignment
Bespak and Tunley Environmental - On-Site Biodiversity Enhancement and Supply Chain Biodiversity Footprint Assessment
De Beers and National Geographic Society - Okavango Eternal
Maybank - Women Eco-Weavers – Regional Natural Dye Workshop
Nattergal - Boothby Wildland
Nestlé Purina PetCare Europe - Purina Europe’s Ocean Restoration Programme
Terraformation - Community-Based Biodiverse Reforestation
ScottishPower -Whitelee Windfarm
Scottish Water - Nature Calls
Willmott Dixon - Green Heart at Broad Marsh, Nottingham
CIRCULAR ECONOMY INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
WINNER: CELLCYCLE - The LithiumCycle™ Process
FINALISTS:
Cellcycle - The LithiumCycle™ Process
Centrica Business Solutions - Industrial Heat Pump installation at Dairygold
Circular Computing
HASA Optix - HASARecycle
Holcim UK, Canary Wharf Group, StudioKCA and Thornton Tomasetti - The Whale on the Wharf
Holcim - Blades2Build
Roadways - cold asphalt installation on the Strategic road network
Southeastern and Dartford Composites - Circular Rail Partnership
Vodafone Business - Device Lifecycle Management
CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT & BEHAVIOUR CHANGE INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
WINNER: ETHEX - Crowd Financing for Community Energy at Scale
FINALISTS:
Ethex - Crowd Financing for Community Energy at Scale
Holcim - Sustainable Construction Academy
Northumbrian Water Group - Local Action
ScottishPower - Driving Consumer Action
Scottish Water - Piped By Us. Owned By You.
SMI group - Educating for Every Day Earth