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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Forging new quality productive forces for global sustainability

 

This year’s CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards, themed "Forging new quality productive forces for global sustainability", will continue to follow our professional and rigorous judging criteria to identify outstanding companies, individuals and practices/cases that are accelerating green transformation of industries, exploring high-quality international expansion, proactively adapting to changes and striving for innovation, aiming to recognize leaders in sustainability, discuss innovative practices and share experience of Chinese listed companies in contributing to the country’s high-quality development. Our goal is to encourage more enterprises to embrace "green" and "new" development, provide the world with Chinese solutions and wisdom for modern corporate governance. In doing so, we continuously make our efforts in developing new quality productive forces and make new contributions to global sustainability.

 

Download the CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards 2024 program introduction brochure to learn more.


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 Awards

(In no particular order)

Featured press releases

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.

EY announces winners of Sustainability Excellence Awards at inaugural CSO Forum

SHANGHAI, 18 NOVEMBER 2022 — EY Greater China region (EY) announced the winners of Sustainability Excellence Awards at the inaugural EY CSO Forum on 18 November. The award program was launched in February 2022 and has received overwhelming responses. An independent judging panel has assessed prudently and selected 10 companies, 3 individuals and 12 cases as winners of under three categories - companies/institutions, individuals and best practice/case, and the special jury prize. Representatives from government organizations, regulators, industrial organizations, academic and research institutions, and leading companies were invited to join the ceremony held in Shanghai and Beijing.

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