Tue, Mar 22, 2016 5:00 PM
Lincolnshire-based renewable energy products distributor Eco Building Products (www.eco-building-products.co.uk) is sponsoring the Investors in the Environment Awards 2012. The awards ceremony will take place at the Kingsgate Conference Centre in Peterborough on Monday 30 April.
The awards are being organised by the Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) to celebrate the second anniversary of Investors in the Environment (www.iie.uk.com).
Keynote speakers at the event will include leader of Peterborough City Council Cllr Marco Cereste and Jonathan Selwyn, renewable energy business specialist and managing director of Lark Energy (www.larkenergy.co.uk).
The event will also feature a green buffet with wine and an exhibition of goods and services from sustainable suppliers.
Investors in the Environment gives businesses a practical framework for reducing waste and energy use. The scheme is active throughout the Eastern region. It has also been launched in Yorkshire with the collaboration of the Yorkshire Energy Partnership (www.yorkshireenergypartnership.org.uk). Over 600 businesses have pledged their support for the scheme with almost 20 per cent of them already having achieved or working towards accreditation.
Ian Greenfield of Eco Building Products said: "We are proud to be sponsoring the Investors in the Environment Awards. As a local company focused on sustainable building and renewable energy products we are delighted to be able to work with PECT to help Peterborough towards becoming the UK's environment capital."
"It also gives us the opportunity to get out there and spread the renewables message to as wide an audience as possible."
Investors in the Environment project officer Kim Coley added: "We are delighted that Eco Building Products has agreed to sponsor the awards this year. Working closely with a network of organisations like Eco Building Products Investors in the Environment is providing a series of events, courses and seminars that can help create a better workplace by educating businesses on what resources are available to them."
To find out more about the awards or to attend the event email PECT on nilam.patel@pect.org.uk by 16 April or call 01733 866436 for more information.
