4^th WGEA Award - Innovative Practices in Environmental Auditing

The INTOSAI WGEA recently awarded three SAIs for their work on Innovative Practices in Environmental Auditing.

The INTOSAI WGEA Awards, initially launched in 2020 was designed to promote a topical idea or innovation related to environmental auditing and further to increase the visibility of environmental auditing globally. The Award is presented biennially, at the INTOSAI WGEA Assembly. This is the 4th time we have awarded SAIs and this years’ topic was Innovative Practices in Environmental Auditing.

The Jury, consisting of experts from SAI Canada, SAI Indonesia and SAI Estonia, sought nominations in two categories this year. 

I.  Innovative Climate Audit
In this category, the Jury considered nominations on audits that portray innovative methodologies and best practices in climate audit. Additionally, the Jury was also looking for attention to audit impact and innovative use of data visualizations. 

II. Emerging Environmental Issue in Audit
The INTOSAI WGEA as a global working group supports SAIs in auditing a wide range of environmental issues. Innovative methodologies are needed to ensure efficient and credible auditing of these issues. In this category, the jury was looking for nominations that best presented their innovations in an audit on an emerging environmental issue.

Background

The INTOSAI WGEA Award has been designed to promote a topical idea or innovation related to environmental auditing and further to increase the visibility of environmental auditing globally. The Award is presented biennially, at the INTOSAI WGEA Assembly meeting. The first Award handed over at the 20th Assembly, focused on visualisations. The second one at the 21st Assembly rewarded WGEA participants’ own stories on what the WGEA has meant to them under the slogan “Your WGEA Story”. The 3rd Award was on the topic of “Impactful Environmental Audit,” which focused on presenting audit results inspiringly and using innovative methodologies in auditing.