Winners Gallery

Each year the winners of these prestigious awards are asked to submit an individual to join the ICARUS Supplier Committee for a 2 year period. This gives them the opportunity to feed into the ICARUS Advisory Group's thinking and to influence the work of ICARUS.

Below are the previous years' winners with links through to their public CSR information, plus the new winners for 2008/9!

Corporate Team 2008/9 Winner  - PwC and HRG

(Previous winner in 2007/8 - none as new for 2008/9)

Judges Comments on 2008/9 Winner:

Project ICARUS perhaps would not have developed as it has without the leadership of PwC's travel team leader and outgoing ITM past Chairman, Mark Avery. PwC's desire to grow its business while making actual reductions in CO2 emissions forced it to make some significant changes. A Focus on changing the travel behaviour of the 20% of staff that creates 80% of its travel demand has lead to significant adoption of video conferencing, switches to lower emission travel modes and lobbying of travel suppliers to green their businesses. PwC's travel implant, HRG, has been instrumental in helping it achieve these changes and the strength of the partnership is such that HRG employees talk on behalf of PwC on this topic at many conferences and events.

Air 2008/9 Winner - British Airways

(Previous winner in 2007/8 - Easyjet)

Judges Comments on 2008/9 Winner:

British Airways won the award for demonstating a concerted effort over time to make a serious engagement with the environmental issues that face the airline industry. It has taken a leadership role in a number of initiatives such as environmental reporting, providing offsetting facilities for customers, and lobbying for aviation's inclusion in the EU ETS. BA has also put its financial clout into funding research into alternative fuels, the non-CO2 effects of flying and atmosphere research. As with all submissions, the judges felt the airline could go further and would have liked a bolder target than a net 50% reduction in CO2 by 2050 as this target includes 'offsets' through permits issued under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Rail 2008/9 Winner - Eurostar

Rail 2008/9 Commended Runner Up - Virgin Trains

(Previous winner in 2007/8 - Virgin Trains with Eurostar as runner up)

Judges Comments on 2008/9 Winner:

In a reversal of last years results, Eurostar is the winner in the rail category and the judges wished to commend Virgin Trains for continued excellent activities. Last year Eurostar announced its ten-point carbon reduction plan and the judging panel encouraged the company to bring the results of the plans' implementation back to the awards. The company's Tread Lightly initiative aims to reduce both its own environmental impact and those of its customers. While rail can often have lower emissions than the equivalent journey by air - and clearly high speed rail operators have an opportunity to change short haul traveller behaviour - Eurostar's plan does not rest on these laurels and targets 25% per traveller journey CO2 reduction by 2012.

Hotel 2008/9 Winner - The Cavendish Hotel, London

(Previous winner in 2007/8 - Apex Hotels)

Judges Comments on 2008/9 Winner:

The Cavendish Hotel, London demonstrated that the management team has examined all the areas of their business and compared their processes with current best practice. Their comprehensive approach has led to the hotel replacing all its guest room lighting, and replacing existing boilers with high efficiency types. The hotel has also integrated room occupancy sensors with heating, air conditioning and lighting systems to minimise energy waste when guests are not in their rooms. In benchmark tests the Cavendish is close to having the lowest CO2 emissions per room in their four-star sector. Recycling efforts have reduced waste by 20% and this waste is used to fuel a 'waste to energy' plant rather than disposed though landfill.

Ground Transportation 2008/9 Winner - No Winner Presented

(Previous winner in 2007/8 - Radio Taxis)

 Technology 2008/9 Winner - TRX

(Previous winner in 2007/8  - The Carbon Consultancy with GetThere as runner up)

Judges Comments on 2008/9 Winner:

This high quality category saw TRX win out for what the Stockholm Environment Institute considers to be 'likely the best currently available air travel CO2 emissions calculator'. Transparency of calculation methodology is often not high in the carbon calculator market, but this is not the case for TRX, whose product uses comprehensive and regularly updated data sources including major factors such as aircraft types, flight profile and distance, air traffic delays, cabin configurations, cargo on passenger flights and load factor. The ability to be able to choose between carriers on carbon efficiency based on methodological-sound and data-rich carbon calculators was called upon by the judges last year and the TRX product has delivered this advance.

Agency 2008/9 Winner - Carlson WagonLit Travel

(Previous 2007/8 winner - Carlson WagonLit Travel)

Judges Comments on 2008/9 Winner:

This year CWT built its ICARUS award-winning activities in carbon calculation and client management into an integrated suite of environmental management products and services. CWT has once again shown strong engagement with the environemnnt agenda and developed useful environmental tools for its clients to help them assss their travel-related carbon footprint and managed spend in the least environmental-damaging way. The suite allows travel managers to assess and manage its environmental impact at corporate, regional, office, departmental and individual traveller level. While CWT has yet again shown leadership in this category, the judges would have like to have seen evidence of greater take-up of these services by its clients.

Consultancy 2008/9 Winner - No Winner Presented

Consultancy 2008/9 Commended Runner Up - JMP Consultants

(Previous 2007/8 winner - no winner presented)

Judges Comments on 2008/9 Commended Runner Up:

No submission this year demonstrated actual reductions in CO2 emissions for their clients achieved as yet. However, this is a relatively young market and so this is not altogether suprising, and in light of an otherwise excellent submission, the judges wished to commend JMP Consultants for category leadership. This consultancy has developed an integrated management process, has introduced an ISO 14001 standard Environmental Management System and created a Centre for Transport Psychology in conjuction with the Universities of Bath, Sussex and Surrey to better understand traveller behaviour.