Detailed Nomination Form

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Thanks for your interest! If you would prefer to prepare your answers in advance, you can request a word doc version of the form from the Clean50 Analyst who called you, or by emailing gpitchford@deltamanagement.com.

Please provide some information about yourself if you are completing this form on behalf of the nominee.

This section is to identify what the nominee has done to be deserving of the Honour and join the Clean50. For examples, nominees or nominators are *strongly* encouraged to review the 2012 – 2022 Clean50 Honourees at www.clean50.com for some ideas as to accomplishments the selection committee felt were most noteworthy. Different nominees from different categories are considered based on different criteria, depending upon industry norms for their category. For example, someone in the retail or manufacturing category might be considered based on reduction in waste, someone in the Angels category based on capital leveraged to invest in clean-tech and an educator recognized based on national impact. Others might be recognized for being among the first to set a unique and positive example. When responding, please realize that not all questions must be answered – nor will all carry equal weight based on industry issues. In some cases, recognition will be given for reducing harm – and in others for producing positive outcomes. Given the range of possibilities, it is impossible for us to be completely objective, but we FOCUS on the MEASURABLE OUTCOMES and actual measurable IMPACT whenever we can. So please pay special attention to answering the questions, and recall we are looking for LEADERSHIP and for things that have been accomplished already (NOT future plans or announcements, unless significant steps have been taken to implement already). Finally, unless you are a nominee for a Lifetime Achievement Award, please answer ALL questions with those results accomplished since January 1, 2020 through March 31 2022. IF this nominations is for a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT award, then ALL responses below may reference work and accomplishments further back than January ~2.5 years ago.

The steps being taken towards resource use reductions and offsets, sustainable procurement policies, more counting and reporting of the organizations impact. Answer N/A where nothing to report. *Those with significant items to report here should also consider responding to the questions asked for the special Resolute Forest Products Clean50 Award for GHG emissions reductions further below.

Leaders from NGOs / ENGOs or Community-based organizations, individuals. NOT lawyers (Consultants / Enablers), those employed by non-charities (pick the appropriate industry) or those who advocate for change inside another type of organization.

“Angels” includes clean tech investors / VCs, and also those who build and enable the eco-systems that support clean tech entrepreneurs such as accelerators etc.

This category includes architects, engineers, designers, builders, developers and innovators of all sorts, including innovative building products. Because of the disparities, not all questions will be applicable to all nominees – all questions require a response – so answer “N/A” where appropriate.

This category is intended to recognize individuals who have improved the sustainability of our cities, and may consider politicians, municipal employees, or individuals who have championed an innovation or a movement that has measurable impact on a city or cities in Canada. If individual questions are not applicable please respond N/A.

This category recognizes innovative new technologies that were developed in Canada, and are presently for sale. Preference will be given to technologies that have the greatest potential to change the game, and have been proven to work. We would usually be most comfortable recognizing the person who has had the greatest impact in driving the company forward, whether as a CEO or founder / CTO. A CEO-CTO team is another possibility. Clean Tech not yet proven at scale or not yet openly available for sale is considered in our R&D category. ** Through our partnership with UPPLift, nominees in the Cleantech and R&D categories are eligible to have their solutions included on UPPLift’s new database of clean tech solutions and providers at no charge through the end of 2023. The database enables organizations interested in procuring solutions to search and identify Canadian clean tech leaders with matching solutions. We recommend that ALL nominees take full advantage! Go to https://app.upplift.co/signup and use discount code “Clean50” to claim your free listing.

We are interested in being able to assess the nominee’s impacts on third parties – i.e. their clients – as well as outreach / thought leadership / “community” leadership activities. This section is appropriate for sustainability consultants, lawyers, engineers etc., as well as those who build and enable community sustainability efforts (i.e. sustainable procurement, circular economy etc.)

We are looking for impacts affecting curriculum, students (in the broadest possible sense) and national / international understanding of the need to build a sustainable world, and to the extent possible, the different ways in which the Nominee has helped to embed that into everything / other things that Canadians learn and their understanding of sustainability. Individuals in this category may have limited direct impact on sustainability in Canada, but are being recognized more for their indirect impact, achieved by others, where those actions can be traced to the nominee’s actions. teachings and thought leadership. Nominees working at post-secondary institutions whose primary contribution is to non education aspects should respond elsewhere: for example, if for the institution’s physical plant efficiency or design, respond under “Building”, If to the operations overall, respond under “Financial / Services” and if to research / development and the creation of clean tech / bio tech or other solutions, respond under the R&D category respectively.

Financial organizations responses will be measured on the DIRECT sustainability / leadership impacts of the nominees as delivered via their employers, NOT on how much money the organization may have invested in third parties or projects (those impacts are measured in the Angels category). MEDIA nominees will be judged the same way – and not on the merits / impact of their content (judged in the EDUCATION category if appropriate). Remember you can submit under more than one category if you wish to do so. PLEASE NOTE: Some of the questions below may prove difficult to answer for different reasons. Please do not infer likely outcomes based on the questions – and if unable to answer please indicate N/A. Beginning for the 2023 Award cycle, the Clean50 Awards program will no longer “provide cover” to organizations doing good in one aspect of their business – and accelerating climate change in another. Employees of financial organizations whose exposure to polluting industries – especially the fossil fuel industry – have increased will no longer be recognized. Ditto for organizations, especially those in the Retail / Consumer categories who engage in greenwashing will similarly be excluded.

We are looking for nominees who have helped move their companies and industries towards a fully sustainable model. In some instances, we may recognize substantial reductions in harm. In this category, we may also recognize individuals who have found new ways to utilize / re-utilize our resources more effectively. We consider WASTE (of all sorts) or pre-used materials to be a resource, mined above the ground.

Nominees who are employed by the Federal or Provincial governments, as indigenous leaders, or as employees of crown corporations, in any capacity (including as MPs / MPPs / MLAs) , and who have demonstrated leadership or led / developed innovative ways of improving either Canada’s – or their province’s sustainable development / environmental performance

This category is anticipated to recognize leaders from non-crown corp / non-regulated organizations who have deployed – or spurred the adoption – of any form of renewable energy

Please consider that the persons reviewing these materials are not likely rocket surgeons: please also recall that Einstein is alleged to have said words to the effect of “if you can’t explain it to a 15 year old, you don’t really understand it yourself”. Consider us to be reasonably smart 15 year olds…but in order to assess the impact, we need to be able to both a) grasp the implications of the honouree’s work in terms of what it can enable for Canadians / society moving forward – and b) confirm that it is “real”. We are looking to recognize work towards solutions that can impact our GHG / concentrations of existing GHGs and / or other impacts on resources use. Our definition of R&D includes clean tech that is not yet generically for sale – company may have actually “sold” solutions, but they are, as yet, pre-commercial, larger scale field trials rather than ready for prime time.

Our team will be looking at either total impacts – or the innovative ways in which the nominee has pursued better alternatives.

There are several Clean50 Special Awards. These Awards are focused on a specific area of sustainability and best practices, and are awarded to the individual or Emerging Leader Honouree who best meets the respective criteria.

HP Canada, with Delta Management Group and Canada’s Clean50 Awards are offering a special award for advancing sustainable procurement in Canada for the fourth time this year. Given the critical nature of sustainable procurement in advancing the clean economy, we feel it is imperative that we recognize the leaders in driving change into this most impactful of roles within organizations. Until purchasing decisions and procurement departments demand more, suppliers will not voluntarily deliver more. The awardee may be selected from any category of Clean50 honourees, including Emerging Leaders. Judging of nominees for this award will be conducted initially by Delta Management Group, and then the best qualified nominees put before a separate panel of experts for a final determination. There are a few additional questions to answer.

TELUS believes that organizations – and their leaders – have a critical role to play in reaching outside of their organization to contribute to their communities, and this award recognizes the Clean50 Honouree who has done the most to advance their community, outside of what they get paid to do. Three finalists will be identified, and the winner named at the Clean50 Summit.

This special award recognizes the Clean50 Honouree from the current year who has done the most to advance society’s interests on a volunteer basis, outside of their day job.

Quadreal is one of the most ambition real property owners in Canada when it comes to pursuing low carbon – and eventually net-zero buildings. To motivate their tenants – and others – to join them, the company is developing a platform to help their tenants and others track their GHG emissions, in track their progress towards net-zero. But net-zero doesn’t happen overnight. Or without a well executed strategy. The Quadreal award for Net Zero Action recognizes the organization and individual who have done the most within their organization to advance a plan for getting to net-zero – or to achieve interim targets in that direction. To win this award, you will need to answer three additional questions about your organization’s progress towards developing a net-zero plan.

When Resolute’s then CEO was first nominated for a Clean50 Award in 2015, we reviewed the remarkable scope of their GHG reductions achievements over the prior two years, and how far they had come towards their commitment to reducing GHG emissions by nearly 65% below 2000 levels – a target they actually achieved in 2014 – a year early. And then continued to pursue further reductions. By the following year, they were 70% below 2000 levels (we named their sustainability team to the Clean50 list), and then 2 years later, in 2018, they were 76% below 2000 levels and today are at 86% below 2000 levels. Any organization who has tried this knows the first few percentage points are fairly simple, but once the low hanging fruit has been picked, it gets harder and harder to find GHG emissions to cut. But the company has made ongoing progress a priority, finding innovative ways to eliminate fossil fuel use, and to re-purpose heat from operations to heat greenhouses, amongst other initiatives, and their progress and ambition continue – setting a great example for this award. After their first participation at a Clean50 Summit, Resolute approached us about supporting our program, and has been a Clean50 champion supporter ever since: now 7 years. This year we approached them and proposed we refocus their connection to the Clean50 through an award that would recognize others who had succeeded in making similar, and significant reductions in their GHG emissions, and hence this new award to recognize the Clean50 Honouree whose organization has done the most to reduce GHGs over past 3 years. Recognizing that GHGs are often counted or calculated well after the fact, we will consider the emissions from Fiscal or calendar 2019 as the base line, and compare them to the GHGs for either your fiscal or calendar year (your choice) for 2020 and 2021. If you lack data for 2019, but have a significant reduction from 2020 to 2021, we can consider that as well.

A little more about you personally…

Delta’s objective in recognizing these additional honourees is to attempt to engage both new ideas and wisdom. We want to bring both to the Clean50 Summit where significant opportunities are created for bi-lateral sharing of ideas, and subsequent mentoring for those Emerging Leaders who are interested – as well as for all of us to learn from champions of sustainability for 20+ years – and their mistakes and successes.

Enter subsequent team members in the order they should appear on our list, based on whatever metric you choose to apply for your needs (i.e. importance of their contribution, seniority, alphabet etc)

When decisions are made, multiple people often need to be informed, particularly as decisions are made when many Honourees and staff are on vacation, and responses are required promptly. Please ensure we have the names of all the folks who need to be kept in the loop. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER ANYTHING IF NOT APPLICABLE. If it is applicable please be absolutely sure that the email addresses are valid and correct. DO NOT re-enter the nominee’s name as all emails will automatically go to the Nominee.

Obviously subject to the state of the world on October 6th.. The 12 th annual Clean50 Summit will take place on OCTOBER 6th 2022 in Toronto in the unique conference space in the Globe and Mail building, overlooking downtown. It runs from 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO BE FULLY VACCINATED, and depending on circumstances, may also be required to test negative on a suitable rapid test before being permitted to enter the venue. (Last year we hosted 2 Summits back-to-back, with 300 people over two days, and had not a single case of COVID spread. We will take extensive and all reasonable precautions) *ALL* incoming Canada’s Clean50 Honourees are expected to attend the Summit with their fellow current year’s Honourees, as well as many Clean50 Alumni from prior years, unique subject matter experts, and the remarkable Clean50 Advisory team, for the entire day. The Summit is a full day affair, with no slide presentations or panel discussions, but rather, a hugely engaging series of facilitated workshops designed to allow Honourees to meet and work with as many of their peers from different industries as possible – to share learnings and consider solutions to a wide range of problems we all face. Comments / Ideas are always made under Chatham House Rules – never for attribution. A critical part of being chosen as a Clean50 Honouree is the commitment Honourees make to each other to collaborate, both at the Summit, and thereafter. We are extraordinarily pleased that, with the help of HP Canada we are able to ensure that all the past Honourees are invited back – and that typically, within less than 24 hours of Alumni tickets being made available, almost all are snapped up. You are asked to commit at this point to being present at the Summit should you be named to the Clean50, If for any reason we cannot deliver a safe conference, we will postpone. A negative response will not necessarily exclude you at this point – but will certainly count against you (the purpose of the award is to drive collaboration – and it’s hard to connect for future collaboration if you’re not actually there…) and a change at the last minute for anything short of an illness accompanied by a doctor’s note, or evidence of a family catastrophe will most likely result in the award offer being rescinded. We note again, the importance of your being there to serve the core purpose behind the creation of the award. It’s very hard to collaborate with people you’ve never met…

Thank you for preparing and submitting your detailed nomination response for a Clean50 Award. That in itself was the first “test”. Being a member of the Clean50 is a commitment to connect and collaborate outside of your organization, and your industry – and as professionals who advise our clients on which candidate to choose for any given role, we stress that actions are more important than words. We know this form is long, and challenging. Deliberately so. While it’s a fairly low bar, just the demand of completing it weeds out most of those whose commitment to our shared mission is superficial. Delta is committed to reviewing all that you have submitted, and to doing our best to evaluate all responses on the most objective basis we can. But – full disclosure – often we are not comparing apples to apples – it’s more like a comparing apples to goats thing! But one thing we’re good at is figuring out which needle in a stack of needles is the best needle. We hope that’s you – and that we will soon meet face-to-face at the Summit on October 6th. In the interim, our heartfelt “THANK YOU” for doing all that you do to fight climate change and for looking to extend your reach by becoming a member of the Clean50. And please, stay safe, fully vaccinated and socially connected – but physically distanced.