{"id":21288,"date":"2023-05-05T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T09:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=21288"},"modified":"2023-05-05T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T09:03:28","slug":"renewables-firm-everun-sign-on-as-sponsor-for-all-ireland-sustainability-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2023\/05\/renewables-firm-everun-sign-on-as-sponsor-for-all-ireland-sustainability-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables Firm Everun Sign On As Sponsor For All-Ireland Sustainability Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Andrew-Johnston-Business-Development-Manager-of-Everun-Danielle-McCormick-of-Triterra-and-founder-of-All-Ireland-Sustainability-and-Ross-Moffett-Sales-Business-Development-Director-at-Everun.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-21289\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Andrew-Johnston-Business-Development-Manager-of-Everun-Danielle-McCormick-of-Triterra-and-founder-of-All-Ireland-Sustainability-and-Ross-Moffett-Sales-Business-Development-Director-at-Everun.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Belfast renewables firm Everun have been confirmed as one of the leading sponsors of the forthcoming All-Ireland Sustainability Awards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event, hosted by Barra Best, will take place on October 5 in the Grand Ballroom of the Europa Hotel in Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With sustainability and the net-zero agenda firmly on the radar for everyone, the race is now on to find the best examples of sustainability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everun is joined by companies such as\u00a0 Visit Belfast, International Synergies NI, Danske, NIE Networks, Veri Connect and Ulster Bank who are supporting the event this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are 14 awards being presented on the evening with 13 categories open for nomination to represent the wider sustainability agenda, these include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Agri-Food Initiative of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biodiversity Initiative of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young Changemaker of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Housing \/ Buildings Initiative<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Consultant \/ Consultancy of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Waste, Resource Management &amp; Circular Economy Initiative of the Year Food<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Waste Reduction Initiative of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Energy Initiative \/ Project of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Exporter of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Net-Zero Initiative of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Marketing \/ Stakeholder Engagement Initiative of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Social Sustainability, Diversity &amp; Inclusion Initiative of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sustainable Tourism &amp; Hospitality Initiative of the Year<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is also the Overall Winner of the Year 2023, which will be the final award of the evening. This prestigious title will go to one business, selected from all the category winners of the evening, to be awarded the most Sustainable Business of the Year 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Danielle McCormick of Triterra and founder of All-Ireland Sustainability, explained: \u201cAll-Ireland Sustainability began in November 2020 with our free online networking group, the goal of which was to drive the sustainability agenda, and positive change, across the region, share best practice and learnings and create collaboration opportunities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI am proud to say that the Network now has 400 members across NI and Ireland, we have run two All-Ireland Sustainability Summits in 2022 and are now looking forward to delivering our first Awards event in October.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ross Moffett, Sales &amp; Business Development Director at Everun, added: \u201cWe are delighted to partner in the inaugural All-Ireland Sustainability Awards this October as the ethos of these events was a natural fit with our own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAt Everun we are focused on helping our customers become more sustainable through reducing energy consumption, and we felt that the awards were a fantastic opportunity to recognise all the great work being achieved across the island of Ireland to drive and accelerate positive change across the sustainability agenda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are looking forward to being involved in the judging process and can\u2019t wait to hear more about the individuals and organisations making a difference across this year\u2019s categories.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The awards are completely free to enter, and individuals can nominate themselves, their organisation, or a colleague for an award. Entries are now open and will remain open until August 15 with finalists expected to be announced the week commencing September 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are extremely grateful to all of our sponsors and partners, without whom the awards evening simply wouldn\u2019t be possible, and are absolutely thrilled to have young and upcoming Northern Irish artist, Ruthie Stewart, design a unique trophy, especially for our event,\u201d said Danielle, adding: \u201cWe have an absolutely amazing evening organised up for our guests, including a super line-up of local musicians and entertainment, as well as a local produce menu designed by the Europa team for guests to enjoy on the night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to have entries now open and to celebrate all exciting and innovative sustainable developments at our awards event in October.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Award categories, nomination forms and further details can be found at: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allirelandsustainability.com\"><b>www.allirelandsustainability.com<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast renewables firm Everun have been confirmed as one of the leading sponsors of the forthcoming All-Ireland Sustainability Awards.\u00a0 The event, hosted by Barra Best, will take place on October 5 in the Grand Ballroom of the Europa Hotel in Belfast. With sustainability and the net-zero agenda firmly on the radar for everyone, the race &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2023\/05\/renewables-firm-everun-sign-on-as-sponsor-for-all-ireland-sustainability-awards\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1706,1707,1640,1708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21290,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288\/revisions\/21290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}