CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards

To promote green and low-carbon economic and social transition and staying committed to sustainability represent major steps and underpin all efforts toward high-quality development. The EY Sustainability Excellence Awards is primarily designed for listed companies, bringing together best practices in sustainability and low carbon transformation in China, and pursuing new avenues and opportunities for sustainable growth.
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Pioneering sustainability with AI

Standing at the juncture of the commencement of the 15th Five-Year Plan and a new starting point where artificial intelligence (AI) empowers sustainability, we expect the fifth CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards not only highlights the optimal outcomes delivered by Chinese companies, but also serves as an opportunity to gain insights into the evolving dynamics, foster consensus and inspire actions. We are ready to work with more Chinese companies to pioneer sustainability with AI and build long-term competitiveness in a complex and changing world.

 

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Awards categories and scope

Nominees, recommended by the organizers and event supporters, are mainly from national and international listed companies of a certain scale.


Company

(Includes but not limited to):

  • Companies excelling in overall ESG performance
  • Companies excelling in one or more areas of ESG
  • Companies leading ESG efforts in their industry

Individual 

(Includes but not limited to):

  • Individuals working at a listed company, including executives responsible for typical sustainability-related business, innovative technical professionals and scientists
  • Influential individuals who initiate, promote or lead sustainability efforts

Practice/Case 

(Includes but not limited to):

  • Low carbon transformation and ESG management projects with leading technology, scalability, clear trends in cost reduction, wider commercial application, comparable advantages in market entry and affordability and significant social effects
  • Dual carbon targets-related road map and best practices/cases
  • Investment projects and financial products with excellent performance in ESG, including but not limited to helping achieve significant low-carbon benefits, supporting pollution prevention and environmental protection projects, creating and increasing jobs, supporting rural revitalization, facilitating the development of small and micro-sized companies, improving healthcare and medical provision, raising education level or increasing educated population, supporting the achievement of common wealth and sustainability targets

Winners of EY Sustainability Excellence Awards

(In no particular order)

Featured press releases

Pioneering a sustainable future with digital intelligence — The fourth CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards program kicks off

BEIJING, 7 MAY 2025 — The fourth CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards (hereinafter referred to as the “Awards”) kicked off today. Under the theme “Pioneering a sustainable future with digital intelligence”, the Awards program aims to build a platform for dialogue and communication across diverse sectors, propelling businesses to forge new horizons driven by digital technology and green development.

Forging new quality productive forces for global sustainability; The third CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards results unveiled

HONG KONG, 22 NOVEMBER 2024 — 2024 marks the 20th anniversary since the concept of ESG first appeared in the United Nations, as well as the starting year of mandatory ESG disclosure by A-share listed companies. Last May, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Beijing Stock Exchange officially implemented the guidelines on ESG disclosure for listed companies, hence fostering ESG development and embracing the new era of ESG are increasingly stringent for companies on their growth journey. As China advances to promote high-level opening up to the world, Chinese enterprises have now entered a new phase in going global, shaping a new state for technology, brand and trade in services.

The second CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards officially launched

BEIJING, 18 MAY 2023 – The second CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards was launched today, kicking off the second year of the awards program. The CSO Forum, themed “Bolster confidence toward sustainability”, will continue to serve as a platform for exchanging experience among the government, regulators, professional organizations, academic institutions and leading companies to explore a high-quality development path that is innovation-driven, green and sustainable for Chinese companies.

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