Awards

A EUR 6,000 award was granted to eco-efficiency consultant Michael Lettenmeier from Asikkala.

A EUR 4,000 award went to Raini Kiukas from Tampere, a founding member of the Global Dry Toilet Club of Finland who has promoted the dry-toilet technology, and to Kestovaippayhdistys, an association that promotes the use of reusable nappies, from Helsinki/Riihimäki.

EUR 2,000 awards were granted to the Hollola Upper Secondary School, the ice-hockey club Juniori-Kalpa from Kuopio and the Local Agenda of the Residents of Jyväskylä, JAPA (Jyväskylän Asukkaiden Paikallisagenda JAPA ry).

The jury consisted of representatives of the Finnish National Commission on Sustainable Development, WWF Finland, the Finnish UN Association, the Confederation of Finnish Industries and Kesko.

As in previous years, the jury valued work done for children, young people and young families. Kesko wanted to give particular credit to voluntary work, which meant that for paid work to be awarded, the normal standard had to be exceeded by a large margin. The idea was to award prizes to parties that promote sustainable consumption and have not received recognition from elsewhere. When determining the sums awarded, the extent of the activities and financing from other sources were taken into account; the sums granted do not thus necessarily reflect any ranking order.

Additional information on the activities and merits of the awardees is attached.

This is the fifth time Kesko has granted awards for sustainable development - the total number of awardees is 32. Kesko has worked systematically for environmental protection and sustainable development and has been recognised for its achievements in many ways. Likewise, it wants to recognise other promoters of sustainable development by granting awards and thus give their work publicity.

Further information: Jouko Kuisma, Senior Advisor/Corporate Responsibility, Kesko Corporation, Tel. +358 1053 23140 or +358 50 5143 043, [email protected]

The whole release is published at www.kesko.fi. You can download the release in pdf format from the link below.