CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards

To accelerate and support the high-quality development, the EY Greater China Region launched the CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards to identify and recognize best practices in low-carbon transformation and sustainable development; drive the deployment and commercialization of new technology and models; encourage listed companies to play a leading role in advancing sustainable development in China.

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This year, based on the country’s goal of high-quality development, the CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards will identify best practices in sustainable development in a wide range of fields such as green development, rural revitalization, scientific innovation and industrial leadership, and recognize outstanding listed companies in implementing key national development strategies, promoting regional coordination, stabilizing economic growth and fulfilling social responsibility. Based on the latest global sustainability evaluation system and ESG standards, the independent judging panel selects winners in each category – excellent companies, excellent individuals and best practices/cases – in a fair, transparent and impartial manner, taking into consideration the commercial, social and technological impact brought by the nominees.

Download the CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards 2023 program introduction brochure to learn more.

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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. The nominee can be a company, the head of a company, a CSO/leader from sustainability-related functions, and a practice/case.

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 Award 2022

(In no particular order)

  • Special Jury Prize

    • Bank of China Limited
    • GD Power Development Company Limited 

  • Excellence Award for Companies

    • GD Power Development Company Limited 
    • Shanghai Electric Group Company Limited
    • Daqin Railway Company Limited 
    • Sumec Company Limited 
    • Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited
    • Geely Automobile Holdings Limited
    • Dayu Irrigation Group Company Limited 
    • ENN Natural Gas Company Limited 
    • Jinko Solar Company Limited 
    • Café de Coral Holdings Limited

  • Excellence Award for Individuals

    • Mr. Ma Jun President, Institute of Finance and Sustainability
    • Mr. Fu Jianguo Deputy General Manager, Baoshan Iron & Steel Company Limited 
    • Mr. Xue Keqing Board Secretary, China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited

  • Excellence Award – Best Practices/Cases

    Financial enablement 

    • Bank of China Limited: Supports biodiversity conservation and green goals for the Beijing Winter Olympics
    • Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited: Green finance practice 
    • Postal Savings Bank of China Company Limited: Innovative layout of personal carbon accounts and technology empowers the development of carbon inclusion 

     

    Technological innovation 

    • Baoshan Iron & Steel Company Limited: “Double carbon” strategy
    • SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Company Limited: Low carbon lifestyle brought by Wuling new energy vehicles
    • Zhejiang Hailiang Company Limited: Low-carbon intelligent manufacturing technology and equipment research for precision copper tubes 
    • Trina Solar Company Limited: 21MW 600W+ Distributed Photovoltaic Zero-carbon Plant Project in Huzhou, Zhejiang

     

    Social responsibility

    • China State Construction Engineering: “Green Stream Initiative” action plan for developing green carbon supply chain 
    • Alibaba Group Holding Limited: Carbon88 to promote sustainable living 
    • Tencent Holdings Limited: Carbon neutrality roadmap and practice 
    • GDS Holdings Limited: Strategic planning for carbon neutrality 
    • Jinyu Biotechnology Company Limited: Corporate responsibility of controlling zoonotic disease

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