Trewin Restorick
Director, Global Action Plan
“With high profile companies collapsing around our ears and financial institutions in turmoil, having an award scheme that celebrates companies who are implementing sustainable, forward-thinking initiatives have never been more important.”
Trewin Restorick is the CEO of Global Action Plan, an independent environmental charity that he founded in 1993. The charity runs programmes to reduce carbon emissions, energy consumption and waste with businesses, schools, community organisations and households. Global Action Plan has won a range of awards including the 2008 Ashden Award for sustainable energy for its employee behaviour change programmes and was recently shortlisted for Creating the Future Award and Third Sector Awards.
Trewin is the Chair of the Environmental IT Leadership Team, is a trustee for Sustainability and Environmental Education and co-chaired Defra’s Compact Group. Trewin has been trained as one of Al Gore’s UK Climate Change Ambassadors and is a frequent media commentator on environmental issues appearing on Channel 4 News, Sky News, BBC Breakfast and CNN.
Before starting Global Action Plan, Trewin worked for Friends of the Earth as Recycling Co-ordinator and Head of Marketing. In these roles he established the first blue box kerbside recycling scheme in the UK and created Paper Round an office based recycling scheme in London which now has a turnover of £3 million. He has also worked for Plymouth City Council, the Dartington Trust and BBC.
