At the heart of the GREENTECH FESTIVAL, the GREEN AWARDS celebrate the most innovative projects and minds. For the third time in Singapore, we will roll out the green carpet to honour those who are making a significant difference to our future: Our green leaders. Together, we will highlight their innovative projects, sustainable companies, and long-lasting ideas, with a focus on start-ups and changemakers who have contributed to a greener world.
GREEN AWARDS WINNER 2024
Nadya Hutagalung
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Through her remarkable work as a leading voice for conservation (Let Elephants Be Elephants, GRASP, Wild for Life, Green Kampong) and as a UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, Nadya has raised awareness of critical environmental issues, inspiring an entire generation to take action for our planet. Her holistic advocacy—grounded in mindfulness and respect for nature—makes her work uniquely impactful and sustainable. She has played an important role in driving meaningful change across Southeast Asia and beyond.
SepPure Technologies
START-UP
The RE(SOLV)®️ system enables energy-efficient solvent recovery, reclaiming up to 90% of spent solvents through advanced nanofiltration. This innovation cuts waste, GHG emissions & solvent costs by up to 90%, driving a circular economy. With around 50% of spent solvents incinerated, we offer a critical solution. U.S. DOE recognizes that technologies like ours could save 100 million tonnes of CO2 emissions and $4 billion in energy costs yearly in the U.S. alone. Each system can recycle around 8,000 tonnes of solvents annually, saving at least $4 million a year in solvent & waste disposal costs.
OUR NOMINEES 2024
VFlow Tech
VFlow Tech
Billion Bricks
Billion Bricks
SepPure Technologies
SepPure Technologies
GREEN AWARDS WINNERS 2023
Antoinette Taus
SPECIAL AWARD
Antoinette Taus is a Filipino-American award-winning actor, singer, host, and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Combining her renown with her longstanding dedication to people and the planet, she founded CORA (Communities Organized for Resource Allocation), a nonprofit organization that fosters sustainable development through impactful programs with volunteers, women, youth and local communities in order to help build a more just and resilient future for people and the planet. As a passionate advocate of the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), Antoinette leads programs centered on solutions focused on sustainability, climate action, women empowerment, inclusive resilience, and the circular economy, in order to unite more people in action towards creating a better future for all, without leaving anyone behind.
formo
FOOD & BEVERAGE
The dairy industry alone is responsible for 4% of global GHG emissions. Planetary boundaries are at the limit, and the demand for animal protein will double by 2050. Most metrics show producing proteins through microorganisms instead of animals as way better for the planet. This is where Formo jumps in. Instead of cows, microorganisms are teached to produce delicious, functional protein and to make the cheese humans love. By swapping livestock for microorganisms Formo wants to massively reduce the impact of protein consumption on our planet. Formo does this without challenging people to compromise on the foods and traditions they adore. This is a revolution of the way we produce food.
Godelmann
BUILDING
GDM.KLIMASTEIN, a Generation 4.0 ecological surfacing, combines everything Godelmann developed in 40 years about sustainability and climate change mitigation. The patented system provides answers to the most urgent questions in urban planning and has a degree of evaporation like a meadow. This stone infiltrates water on site while permanently filtering traffic-related pollutants from stormwater, thus protecting groundwater. It can store water, evaporate at the soil surface, and improve air quality by breaking down nitrogen oxides. It actively cools the overheated urban environment by evaporation.
GREEN AWARDS SINGAPORE WINNERS 2022
Green Carbon by TUM
Category: Green Building
The Green Carbon Project is focused on the conversion of the greenhouse gas, CO2 to oleaginous algae biomass. The resulting algae triglycerides (oil) are used in a holistic chemo-enzymatic approach for conversion in biogenic resins and acrylonitrile based carbon fibers. The combination of carbon fibers and resins results in carbon negative carbon fiber composites, a new lightweight material, that can replace steel, aluminium and concrete. At the end of the life cycle it can be deposited in the ground to generate a permanent CO2 sink, as documented in the World climate report IPCC1.5.
Edible Garden City
Category: Community
Edible Garden City advocates the grow-your-own-food movement in cities around the world, starting with Singapore. Food gardens in urban areas are designed, built and maintained for restaurants, schools, hotels, residences and more. Since 2012, they have completed more than 260 food gardens in Singapore, in notable locations such as Marina Bay Sands. Grown products, such as herbs, flowers and vegetables are supplied to food outlets and families directly. Furthermore, farming workshops are designed and conducted for companies and schools, and farming curriculums are run for schools.
Boyan Slat
Category: Special Prize
CEO & Founder – The Ocean Cleanup The inventor and entrepreneur creates technologies to solve societal problems. His company “The Ocean Cleanup” is a foundation that develops and scales advanced systems to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. Boyan’s approach is a combination of closing the sources of plastic pollution and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean.