Entries are officially open for edie’s hugely popular Net-Zero Awards – the UK’s only industry-wide awards scheme recognising and rewarding the individuals and organisations that are spearheading the transition towards a low-carbon economy.
Now in their third year, the Net-Zero Awards sit in the critical spot between net-zero strategy and on-the-ground implementation of energy and carbon management projects. It is a sister scheme to the long-standing edie Awards, with categories specifically designed to recognise particular decarbonisation projects and initiatives.
Past winners of edie’s Net-Zero awards include BT, Chivas Brothers, John Lewis Partnership, Electricity North West, Formula E, Newport City Council, Sodexo, Octopus Energy, The Environment Agency, Whitbread and the University of Reading.
KEY DETAILS: Entries for the Net-Zero Awards 2025 are now open. The full list of 19 categories and criteria can be viewed here. The entry deadline is Wednesday 11 June, with the Awards ceremony taking place on the afternoon of Friday 17 October at The Brewery in London.
“We’re now halfway through the UK’s so-called ‘Decade of Delivery’ for net-zero,” said edie’s Publisher Luke Nicholls. “The past year has seen an inspiring surge of innovations and corporate projects that are accelerating the transition from strategy into implementation – and they deserve recognition.
“Whether you’ve delivered a group-wide renewable energy programme or a site-specific decarbonisation project – this is the awards scheme to have your efforts and achievements recognised by thousands of fellow businesses and climate experts.”
Categories and criteria
For the third annual Net-Zero Awards, 19 categories have been developed, ranging from Energy Efficiency Project to Upskilling and Training Initiative.
There is also the Net-Zero Hero award to recognise outstanding individual achievement, plus coveted Net-Zero Strategy award categories for large organisations and SMEs.
New for 2025 is the Research Institute of the Year award, which shines a light on the educational bodies, think tanks and NGOs that have worked tirelessly to ensure that discourse on net-zero is grounded in evidence.
This year will additionally see the Net-Zero Awards bolstered by edie’s newly acquired Springwise arm, with the Innovation of the Year categories open to international organisations, to support the surge of energy and carbon-related innovations from across the globe.
View the full list of categories and criteria here.
The Awards are open to all organisations with a UK presence across both the public and private sectors, and of all sizes, from micro-businesses through to multi-national corporations. Projects entered do not need to have been completed and ROI does not need to be delivered at the point of entry into the Awards – but all submissions should have clear decarbonisation aims, with evidence of how those aims will be achieved over time.
Judging process
Those entries will be judged by an esteemed panel of sustainability and decarbonisation experts, hand-picked for their specialist knowledge and experience across all aspects of net-zero carbon business planning and implementation. The full list of Net-Zero Awards judges will be released in due course.
Entry benefits and costs
Winning a Net-Zero Award empowers teams, inspires stakeholders, and ultimately accelerates the corporate net-zero transition. Businesses, projects, consultancies, agencies, public sector bodies, NGOs, and individuals that want to get some well-deserved recognition for their decarbonisation efforts have until Wednesday 11 June to submit their entries.
Each entry costs £269 plus VAT. There is a discount to £249 plus VAT for edie members.
Full information on how to enter the Net-Zero Awards, and how to partner with the event to promote the best in decarbonisation, is available on the Net-Zero Awards website.