The Sustainable Business Awards are New Zealand’s longest-standing sustainability awards. Now in their 18th year, they recognise and celebrate success in sustainability.
This award, sponsored by EECA, is presented to an organisation actively leading and delivering impact and scale with climate action.
Addressing the challenge of climate change must be a priority for businesses. How they respond will determine whether we succeed in meeting our ‘net zero carbon’ goal for Aotearoa, especially in making significant emissions reductions in the next ‘decade of action’, starting now.
Businesses at the forefront of this response are embedding climate action across their operations. They are reducing their operational emissions. They are influencing their staff, suppliers and customers to have a much broader and deeper impact on emissions reduction. They are preparing for the effects of climate change. They inspire others to follow.
The judges said:
“This is an excellent example of what a privately-owned small business can achieve. Soar’s emission reductions, energy costs and fuel savings are well documented and have been analysed in detail over several years. Soar has been a leader in the industry for several years, is continually looking for ways to improve further, and has been very proactive in teaching other SMEs.”
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Soar Print has been inspiring leadership through sustainability since 2009. We are out to prove that smaller businesses can – and must – play a powerful and noticeable part in reducing our country’s footprint, and in influencing others to join the journey.
Soar Print was the first New Zealand corporate printer to achieve Toitu carbonzero certification and have been reducing our greenhouse gas emissions over the past decade. By the end of 2019 we had reduced emissions by 55.5% compared to 2009.
Soar Print also has Forestry Stewardship Council certification and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification and operates under the ISO14001 environmental management system.
The sustainability initiatives introduced by Soar Print over the past 11 years have made a major impact having reduced resources and saved over $200,000 in fuel, metal plates, paper and energy.
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