‘AIMS Green Award’ – The award will be presented on the evening of Friday 8 November 2013 in Athens, Greece

AIMS will make a special new award to recognise good environmental practice in distance running events, the ‘AIMS Green Award’. AIMS Members will be able to submit an application to be considered for this award.

The AIMS Green Award will be given to the AIMS member that best showcases good practice in the protection of the environment when organising a distance running event.

The award will be presented at the inaugural 'AIMS BEST MARATHON RUNNER’ (BMR) Award Gala which will take place on the evening of Friday 8 November 2013 in Athens, Greece.

The AIMS Green Award has been set up in collaboration with Mr. George Kazantzopoulos, Member of the IOC Sport & Environment Commission since 2002 and President of the Institute Team for the World Environmental Alliance 2004+, a scientific non-governmental not-for-profit organization. 

AIMS’ intention is not only to honour the environmental initiatives of its members, but also to help them improve their races by employing good environmental practices in their events.

To this end, AIMS has established a set of environmental guidelines, in line with the IOC Olympic Movement’s Agenda 21, over and above the creation of the AIMS Green Award.

AIMS President Paco Borao comments: “As members of the international running community, we all have a responsibility to be environmentally conscious. I am proud to see AIMS recognising and promoting this responsibility through the AIMS Green Award.”

Source: AIMSworldrunning.org