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Article

2 May 2007

Author:
Rod Newing, Financial Times

Special award: Sustainability: Eco-veterans win accolade

The new Learning and Leadership for Sustainability Award is concerned with how leading organisations are responding to some of the world's most significant challenges, from climate change to environmental degradation...The shortlisted organisations have not jumped on the green bandwagon, but have held enlightened views for many years. The winner [was] Impact Training Development Group…Impact has cascaded sustainability objectives and targets through the organisation…Runner-up [was] SC Johnson… [A]nother runner up [was] accounting firm KPMG… Eight years ago [KPMG’s] board took the unusual decision to allow employees to charge two hours a month to voluntary community work, which was soon increased to three and a half hours…