Photos from the Guardian Sustainable Business awards 2012

Attendees enjoy pre-ceremony drinks on the canal side terrace Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Iain Brown, director of Guardian Business and Professional introduces the event Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Host for the evening, Jo Confino, executive editor, the Guardian addresses the audience Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Andy Wales of SAB Miller collects the Water trophy from awards judge, Peter Madden of Forum for the Future Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

The Collaboration award, presented by Anita Tiessent of category sponsor Unicef is collected by Andy Wales from SAB Miller, Dave Tickner of WWF and Robin Farrington of GIZ Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Eileen Donnelly from category sponsore Anglian Water presents the Social Impact award to the team from Carillion for the Library of Birmingham Project Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Stef Kranendijk of Desso receives the Waste and Recycling award from David Nussbaum of WWF Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Joint winners of the Supply Chain award, Marks and Spencer and Veja Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

The team from Porth Teigr collect the award for Built Environment from Mike Burton of category sponsore AECOM Photograph: Anna Gordon, Anna Gordon/Guardian

Mark Coetzee of Puma collects the overall winner trophy from Charlie Wilkie of Guardian News and Media Photograph: Anna Gordon, Anna Gordon/Guardian

Sainsbury's collect their second award of the evening, this time for Carbon from Tom Delay of category sposnor, the Carbon Trust Photograph: Anna Gordon, Anna Gordon/Guardian

Tracey Rawling Church of category sponsor Kyocera Document Solutions presents the Energy Award to Sainsburys Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Patricia Gartland and Derek Bowyer from Brother Industries (UK) Ltd collect the Engaging Employees award from Graham Simmons of category sponsor Viridien Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Nigel Stansfield of Interface collects the Innovation award from Marcel van Beek of category sponsor Vestergaard Frandsen Photograph: Anna Gordon, Anna Gordon/Guardian

Andrew Saunders of category sponsore Getty Images present the Communication Sustainabiliyu award to Barry Clavin of the Cooperative Group Photograph: Anna Gordon, Anna Gordon/Guardian

The audience listens patiently to the winners' announcement Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Ian Cheshire collects the Business Leader of the Year Award Photograph: Anna Gordon, Anna Gordon/Guardian

Nigel Stansfield of Interface collects the Outstanding Achievement trophy that was posthumously awarded to company founder Ray Anderson who died in 2011 Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Mark Coetzee of Puma collects the award for Biodiversity from Craign Bennett of Friends of the Earth Photograph: Anna Gordon, Anna Gordon/Guardian

Guests mingle in the Battlebridge Room at Kings Place Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian

Mixologists serve bee-friendly cocktails at the Friends of the Earth canal-side bar Photograph: Anna Gordon/Guardian