Deadline: October 18, 2025
Applications for the WBCSD/GRP Climate Resilience Awards for Business 2025 are now open. WBCSD and GRP have launched the Climate Resilience Awards for Business to spotlight companies that advance climate resilience through innovative approaches, collaboration, and measurable impact across operations, supply chains, and communities.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Global Resilience Partnership are collaborating on a new award for businesses leading in climate resilience to build momentum alongside the action agenda for COP 30 in Belém. The awards seek to identify and celebrate businesses who are taking action to assess and ensure future resilience to climate change and broader physical risks for themselves, their supply chains and their communities.
Categories
Business achievements will be recognised along the following categories:
- Strategic Leadership in Resilience Award – Honouring businesses that have either:
- Integrated resilience across their operations.
- Trialled innovative resilience solutions, including technologies, methodologies, or financing mechanisms that substantially improve resilience capabilities.
- Addressed value chain resilience or improved resilience along a logistics route, including identification and measurement of physical risk along the value chain and developing a resilience plan.
- Been driven by an outstanding commitment by an individual changemaker to go beyond ‘business as usual’
- Partnerships and Collaboration Award – Honouring partnerships or collaborations that have demonstrated successful public- private collaboration with national or regional authorities in planning (including NAPSs) or implementing adaptation actions and improved capability and relationships across stakeholder groups
- SME award – Award in any of the above categories but for a small business
Benefits
On an individual level, finalists and winners will gain the following benefits:
- Online recognition through features in GRP, WBCSD and partner digital platforms
- Inclusion in case studies and best-practice reports and platform for knowledge sharing including WBCSD’s Climate Drive Library and GRP’s Resilience Solutions Platform, and the COP30 Business Action Bank
- Potential networking opportunities and visibility at high-profile public events including COP30 opportunities including at the Resilience Hub- including priority sponsorship opportunities
- Invitation to closed door high-level events during Climate Weeks and COP
- Demonstration of leadership and inspiration for other businesses to replicate successful resilience strategies – contribution to advancement of global adaptation agenda
Eligibility
- Open to all businesses in any sector, region and of any size (SMEs will be considered against other SMEs). It is not necessary to already be a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development or a partner of the Global Resilience Partnership. There is no fee to participate.
- The only requirement is that the case study is recent, covers all the key requirements of the awards submission form and can backed up as necessary by data requested by WBCSD and GRP (provided confidentially).
Application
The awards submission is open until October 18, 2025. Finalists will be informed within two weeks to allow for preparations time to prepare to announce the awards before COP30.
For more information, visit Climate Resilience Awards for Business.
