Sustainable Fish City highly commended for London 2012 legacy
On 27 June 2014, Sustain's Sustainable Fish Cities campaign received a Highly Commended NGO Impact Award from the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM).
Sustain project officer Ruth Westcott (left, in the picture above) accepted the award on behalf of the campaign from CIEEM President John Box (centre), and David Stubbs (right), who was the Sustainability Manager for the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. Sustainable Fish Cities helped the London 2012 organisers to adopt, implement and promote the first ever fully sustainable fish policy for a major international sporting event.
Sustainable Fish Cities has gone on to use the inspiration of London 2012 to win sustainable fish policies from caterers that serve well over 200 million meals per year. In 2014, Sustainable Fish Cities went national, with campaigns being launched in 12 cities around the UK, with our help, as part of the Sustainable Food Cities initiative: www.sustainablefoodcities.org.
Published Friday 27 June 2014
Sustainable Fish: A campaign to protect precious marine environments and fishing livelihoods, and call for fish to be bought from sustainable sources. We want to show what can be done if people and organisations make a concerted effort to change their buying habits.
