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World Sustainability Awards 2026: All 11 Winners

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See all 11 World Sustainability Awards 2026 winners, including Sodexo, Barilla and Merck KGaA, plus the highly commended recipients.

Last checked against official sources: 29 October 2026

* Dates and timings are subject to change, please check directly with the awards organisers.

Sodexo, Barilla and Merck KGaA are among the World Sustainability Awards 2026 winners, celebrated on 22 October 2026 at The Garden of Amsterdam. The results recognise organisations, teams and individuals working on environmental and social challenges.

Congratulations to the winners and the people behind their projects, from lower-carbon glass manufacturing to sustainable farming and circular devices.

All 11 Category Winners

  • Carbon Reduction: Ardagh Glass Packaging
  • Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Ultra Music Festival
  • Digital Provider: KBC (A Yokogawa Company)
  • External Collaboration: dsm-firmenich
  • Nature: Barilla
  • Rising Star: Toufica Ahmed, Bayer
  • Social Impact: Kelani Valley Plantations
  • Sustainability Excellence: Sodexo
  • Sustainability Leader: Oriana Raabe, Pentair
  • Sustainability Team: Merck KGaA
  • Sustainable Innovation: TELUS – Circular device strategy

The 3 Highly Commended Recipients

  • Carbon Reduction: Henkel
  • Nature: Grassroots Carbon
  • Social Impact: Sahan Cares

Make the Impact Behind Your Work Clear

The organiser's winner profiles describe Ardagh Glass Packaging's hybrid glass furnace, dsm-firmenich's responsible mint sourcing partnership and Merck KGaA's cross-functional climate team. Each offers a different way to connect a sustainability project with the people, processes or supply chains it changes.

For your own entry, start with the problem and its baseline, explain what your team changed, then show the result over a defined period. Pair the figures with a concrete example of the difference for customers, colleagues or communities. Choose the category that fits that evidence, rather than stretching the same story across every category.

If you are sharing a win, name the category and recognise the team and partners behind it. Crafting Winning Awards Entries can help you turn your next project into a clear problem, solution and result.

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