Deloitte - The Chinese Edition of Bloomberg Businessweek successfully co-hosted the third year of ESG Leading Enterprise Awards

On  8 December 2021, to recognize awardees' efforts and achievements in environmental, social and governance (ESG), Deloitte and Bloomberg Businessweek/ Chinese Edition successfully co-organised the "ESG Leading Enterprise Awards 2021" for the third year at Deloitte’s Hong Kong office.

About this event

In the welcoming speech, Deloitte China Southern Region Managing Partner Edward Au shared about the rising trend of ESG awareness globally and Hong Kong's competitive edges in embracing the rapid changes of the ESG business environment.

Mr. Edward Au, Deloitte China Southern Region Managing Partner

With the epidemic being contained, this year we were able to resume the roundtable discussion with the theme “Achieving ESG Global Standards in the New Normal”. In the roundtable discussion moderated by Deloitte Risk Advisory Associate Director Ellis Wong, Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Joseph Chan, Director and Head of Policy Research of the Financial Services Development Council Rocky Tung and Deloitte China Risk Advisory Southern Region Leader Melissa Fung jointly shared their insights on the emerging ESG opportunities brought by the new normal under COVID-19. In particular, the panellists discussed the initiatives implemented by the Hong Kong government in fostering the development of green finance. On top of the current government initiatives, the discussion highlighted the importance of nurturing talents for future ESG development with the efforts of universities, corporations and governments. Companies are encouraged to provide more internship opportunities to students from the ESG-related disciplines, thereby allowing the talents to gain hands-on experiences progressively. With the emphasis on both current and future ESG initiatives, the panellists believed Hong Kong would be able to optimise its potentials amid the rapid global changes.

Regarding the awards, in addition to our "ESG Leading Enterprise Award", "Leading Environmental Initiative Award" and "Leading Social Initiative Award" in 2020, there were two new awards for 2021, namely "Theme Award – Crisis Management" and "Theme Award – ESG Investing". Same as last year, the "ESG Leading Enterprise Award" has also been broken down into two company categories, companies with market capitalizations over HK$20billion and under HK$20billion in Category I and II respectively.

* According to HK stock code in ascending order
^ Market capitalization as at the company’s recent financial year-end date

Upper left: Deloitte China Risk Advisory Southern Region Leader Melissa Fung presenting award to Henderson Land’s representative
Upper right: Melissa presenting award to Bank of China’s representatives
Lower left: Melissa presenting award to China Telecom’s representatives
Lower right: Melissa presenting award to Sino Land’s representatives

Deloitte provided knowledge support to Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition and developed assessment methodology for the awards. Awardees are adjudicated by an independent judging panel of individuals with different professional backgrounds. The diverse spectrum of profession in the judging panel helped ensure objectivity, credibility and impartial judgements made in the awardee selection process.

Below are the honorable judges in the judging panel for this year's Event:

• Ms. Ashley Khoo, CFA, and Director and Chair of ESG Committee, CFA Society Hong Kong
• Mr. Ernest Lee FCG FCS(PE), Vice-President, The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute
  
• Ms. Carrie Leung, Chief Executive Officer, The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers
  
• Mr. Christopher Lee, Board member of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute
  
• Prof. Yuk-fai Fong, Associate Dean (Taught Postgraduate), and Professor in Economics, Management and Strategy of HKU Business School
  
• Prof. Carlos Lo Wing-Hung, Professor and Head of Department of Government and Public Administration, and Director of Centre for Business Sustainability at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  
• Prof. Kar Yan Tam, MH, JP, Dean of School of Business and Management, and the Chair Professor of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  
• Ms. Kit Tang, Executive Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition
  
  
  
  

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