BDO ESG Awards 2023

Organiser
BDO
Official Supporting Media Partners
HKET SCMP Marketing Solutions

Award Categories

These awards are open to non-H-share companies. All submissions from non-H-share companies will be considered for all three award categories. The top 3 companies from each of the large market capitalisation, middle market capitalisation and small market capitalisation will be selected as winners of the two award categories respectively – ‘Best in ESG Awards’ and ‘Best in Reporting Awards’. The top company from each of the company scale will be selected as the winner of the ‘ESG Report of the Year Awards’.

Best in ESG Awards
Best in Reporting Awards
ESG Report of the Year Awards

This category is exclusively open to H-share companies. All submissions from H-share companies will automatically be directed to compete in this award.

Outstanding ESG Performance of H-Share Companies Awards

This category is open to all Hong Kong listed companies. The top company among all with outstanding performance on carbon neutrality in its business model will be selected as the winner of the Theme Award.

Theme Award

Judging Criteria

Best in ESG Awards
*Only non-H-share companies are eligible for this award.

Subject areas Aspects
Environment
  • Emissions Control
  • Use of Resources
  • Environment and Natural Resources
  • Climate Change
Social
  • Employment & Labour Practices
  • Health and Safety
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Product Responsibility
  • Business ethics
  • Community

Best in Reporting Awards
*Only non-H-share companies are eligible for this award.

Subject areas Aspects
Report Assurance
  • Report Assurance
Reporting Quality
  • Quantitative and Consistency
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • ESG issues highlighted
  • Deployment of Impact Reporting
Governance
  • Corporate/ESG Governance
  • ESG Risk Management
  • ESG strategy & UN Sustainable Development Goals
Report Framework
  • Report Presentation
  • International Reporting Standard and Guideline Application
  • Mechanism for Evaluating Readers’ Feedback on ESG Report

ESG Report of the Year Awards
*Only non-H-share companies are eligible for this award.

Companies that performed best in both ‘Best in ESG’ and ‘Best in Reporting’ categories will be awarded ‘ESG Report of the Year.’

Outstanding ESG Performance of H-Share Companies Awards
*Only H-share companies are eligible for this award.

Subject areas Aspects
Environment
  • Emissions control
  • Use of resources
  • Environment and natural resources
  • Climate change
Social
  • Employment & labour practices
  • Health and safety
  • Supply chain management
  • Product responsibility
  • Business ethics
  • Community
Governance
  • Corporate/ESG governance
  • ESG risk management
  • ESG strategy & UN sustainable development goals
Report framework
  • Report presentation
  • International reporting standard and guideline application
  • Mechanism for evaluating readers’ feedback on ESG report
Report assurance
  • Report assurance
Reporting quality
  • Quantitative and consistency
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • ESG issues highlighted
  • Deployment of impact reporting

Theme Award
*All Hong Kong listed companies are eligible for this award.

Subject areas Aspects
Carbon Neutrality
  • Strategy
  • Climate-related targets
  • Decarbonisation Initiatives