| Local Initiatives
Awards
For Excellence in Governance for
Sustainable Development
For Excellence in Land Resources Management
For Excellence in Freshwater Management
For Excellence in Atmospheric Protection
For Excellence in Waste Management
The Local Initiatives Awards were established to give international
recognition to outstanding environmental performance by local governments
working in cooperation with other community partners. These new
Awards were developed through the joint efforts of the International
Council for Local Environmental Initiatives and Saitama Prefectural
Government in Japan.
Award-winning Practices for 2000
The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
and Saitama Prefectural Government, the co-sponsors of the awards
have announced the winners of the Local Initiatives Awards for the
Year 2000.
More than two hundred local governments and their community partners
submitted applications, with one winner and three finalists being
selected in each of five categories: Atmospheric Protection, Freshwater
Management, Governance for Sustainable Development, Land Resources
Management, and Waste Management. The Selection Committee asked
that all applicants be congratulated for the outstanding work that
they are doing. The winners and finalists that they selected are
listed below. Further information and descriptions of the projects
submitted by the winners and finalists can be seen on the Local
Initiatives Awards web site at: http://www.iclei.org/liawards
For Excellence in Atmospheric Protection
Winner: Växjö, Sweden Fossil Fuel Free Växjö
Finalist: Newcastle, Australia Australian Municipal Energy Improvement
Facility
Finalist: Saint Paul, USA Environmental-Economic Partnership Project
– Working for a Sustainable Community
Finalist: Viernheim, Germany, Brundtland Town Project, Viernheim
For Excellence in Freshwater Management
Winner: Chengdu, China Chengdu Fu River and Nan River Comprehensive
Revitalization Project
Finalist: Puerto Cortes, Honduras Protection and Management of the
Basin of Tulián River
Finalist: Shenyang, China Sustainable Shenyang Project
Finalist: Sumida City, Japan Promotion of Rainwater Utilization
For Excellence in Governance for Sustainable Development
Winner: City of Hamilton/ Region of Hamilton-Wentworth Vision 2020
Renewal
Finalist: Jinja, Uganda Local Agenda 21 Model Communities Programme
Finalist: Leeds, United Kingdom Vision for Leeds
Finalist: Okotoks, Canada Sustainable Okotoks – Leaving a
Legacy
For Excellence in Land Resources Management
Winner: City of Chicago, USA NeighborSpace
Finalist: Lviv, Ukraine Green Crown of the City
Finalist: Miami-Dade County Miami-Dade County Environmentally
Endangered Lands Program
Finalist: Porto Alegre, Brazil Environmental Atlas of Porto Alegre
For Excellence in Waste Management
Winner: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Street Scavengers – Preferential
Partners in the Selective Waste Collection of Belo Horizonte
Finalist: Greater Vancouver Regional District, Canada Greater Vancouver
Regional Solid Waste Management Plan
Finalist: Mwanza, Tanzania Solid Waste Management
Finalist: West Sussex, United Kingdom Development of a new Waste
Management Strategy for West Sussex
The finalists share equal recognition and are listed in alphabetical
order.
For further information on the Local Initiatives Awards or the
winners and finalists, please see the LIA web site at: http://www.iclei.org/liawards
Or contact:
Mary Pattenden, Director
Local Initiatives Awards Secretariat
City Hall, West Tower, 16th Floor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4K 1X4
Tel: +1-416-392-0273
Fax: +1-416-392-1478
Email: liawards@iclei.org
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