SCHEME

The World Environment Foundation (WEF) in association with Institute of Directors (IoD) has great pleasure in inviting
applications from the manufacturing as well as service organisations in India, including those given below, for the
Golden Peacock Environment Management Award (GPEMA).

• All sectors of industry and commerce – both Public and Private undertakings

• Organisations in Voluntary Sector.

• Government and Semi-Government Departments / NGOs

• Educational, Service and Research establishments including monitoring laboratories

The Golden Peacock Environment Management Award is the coveted and prestigious recognition that your organization could strive to win for environment management. The World Environment Foundation (WEF) takes pride to have instituted the Annual Award in 1998, in furtherance of its aims and objectives.[The applications for the Awards relate to performance during the previous financial year].

The Awards shall be presented at the Annual World Congress on Environment Management’, to organisations adjudged to have attained significant achievements in the field of Environment Management.

Throughout this document, the term "environment" shall be understood to include a fully integrated approach to Environment.

Why This Award?

‘The Golden Peacock Environment Management Award’ stimulates and helps organisations to rapidly accelerate the pace of sustainable and effective Environment Management System (EMS) in the organisation. It is a powerful self-assessment process and a way to build organisation's brand equity on Environment Management. The preparation for the award helps to inspire and align the entire work force and management functions. The knowledge gained by the organisation in describing and self-assessing its operations lead to an IMPROVED organisational performance.

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 country wide awareness of duties of government, corporations, voluntary sector and inpiduals to maintain ecological balance by minimizing adverse environmental impact. To this end, the WEF instituted GPEMA to promote best strategy and management of environmental issues by the organisations. The award is recognition of the success achieved in managing environmental concerns.

The Award

The Golden Peacock Environment Management Award (GPEMA) named after India’s national bird the “Peacock”, is awarded annually. Each Winner receives an award i.e. a trophy together with a certificate. The award winners can use the Golden Peacock Award logo on their printed and promotional materials for three years. Selected organisations may get a Special Commendation Certificate. The Golden Peacock Environment Management Award would be given separately, for organizations covered in the first para above in the following two groups:

Who Can Participate

Manufacturing or Service organization or part of organization (self accounting profit centre site) in the private and public sector or a government unit including those covered in the first para above may participate in GPEMA.

The evaluation and grading would be done at two levels. First by a Panel of Assessors; and then by the jury on the basis of the involvement of organisations in the issues/concerns that are relevant to a particular industry. The environmental issues and concerns would also include:

• Status of the Environmental Statement / Audit.

• Validity of the legally required consents. (Conformance to legal requirements)

• Facilities for treatment / disposal of effluents / emissions / wastes.

• Management of hazardous chemicals / wastes.

• Emergency preparedness for industrial accidents / chemical hazards.

• Environmental quality monitoring.

• Specific activities relating to adoption/ development of clean technology, reduction / recycling of effluents / emissions / wastes, reduction in consumption of water / energy / raw materials.

• Environment-friendly improvements in housekeeping, plantation in and around the industry, and ecolabelling of environment-friendly products.

• Training / awareness activities in environmental protection, both in - house and for the neighbourhood / society.

Categories

The Golden Peacock Environment Management Award would be considered separately for the following

categories of products / services:-

1. Telecommunication / IT Sector

2. Education & Training Sector

3. Pharmaceutical and Health Care

4. Food, Beverages and Agriculture Sector

5. Automobile Sector

6. Energy Sector (Incl renewables)

7. Chemical & Fertilizer Sector

8. Oil & Petroleum Sector

9. Coal/Mining and Steel Sector

10. Non-Ferrous Metallurgy Sector

11. FMCG & Consumer Appliances Sector

12. Hotel, Travel and Tourism Sector

13. Transportation – Shipping /Aviation

14. Banking Financial and Insurance Sector

15. Entertainment Industry - TV/Film/Music

16. Social Service / NGOs

17. Government Sector

18. Any other Sector, as the jury deems fit.

Rules and Regulations

• Decision of the Awards Jury Council on the recommendations of the Jury is final and no appeal or correspondence will be entertained.

• Awards Committee reserves the right to award more than one organisation as the winner and also to withhold award(s), if the required standard is not met.

• Awards Committee accepts no liability for any loss resulting from the disclosure of information concerning an entry to Assessors and Jury members, though all reasonable precautions will be taken to maintain secrecy.

• Awards Committee cannot undertake to return documents or supplementary material submitted with an entry.

• Awards Committee reserves the right to alter the Award Scheme, at any time.

• Finalist Award applicants may also be invited to make a brief presentation to the Jury and/or one of the assessors may be nominated to confirm or clarify certain facts at site.

Short-listed finalists, whose sites have to be visited, will bear the actual cost of the visits. These may cover the cost of one assessor travselling to the site, and accommodation, if required.

Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality

Names of applicants, examination and scoring information developed during the review of applications are regarded as proprietary and are kept confidential. Such information is available only to those inpiduals directly involved in the assessment and administrative processes.

WEF will take all reasonable measures to ensure that applications and information therein are treated in strict confidence. However, in no way can WEF be held responsible for any loss of confidentiality to a third party. Moreover, WEF cannot be held liable for any damage ( to goods, or persons, financial loss or consequential) incurred through the breach of confidentiality or otherwise by the applicants or any third party.

WEF reserves the right, subsequent to the Award Presentations, to publish salient details of the Environment Improvement schemes of the Award Winners, as a step towards sharing of knowledge.

Application Fees

The application fee for processing is as under:

a) Large & Small and Medium Enterprises Rs. 39,500/-

The fee should accompany the application, in the form of demand draft / local cheque payable to the‘World Environment Foundation’ payable at New Delhi.

It is designed to encourage and recognise effective implementation of environment management system, both in manufacturing as well as service sectors.