( July 13 , 2022 , Shanghai, China) On July 1 , the call for applications for the 2022 “Ford Auto Environmental Award” project officially ended. The award composition of the “Ford Automobile Environmental Award” includes the traditional “Annual Contribution Award”, the “Ecotourism Route Award” pioneered last year, and this year’s newly established “Climate Change Action Award”. Since the application was launched in May, nearly 200 application proposals have been received from 28 provinces/autonomous regions/municipalities. From the perspective of the composition of the application projects, the “Annual Contribution Award”, which is well-known in the industry in recognition of organizations that have contributed to environmental protection, is still the most popular, with more than 90 applications received. The other two innovation awards have become new hot spots for project application this year. In particular, the newly established “Climate Change Action Award” this year has received more than 60 project applications in one fell swoop, bringing fresh vitality to the continuous innovation and development of the “Ford Automobile Environmental Award”.
In recent years, addressing climate change has become one of the most concerned public issues in the world. In response to the advocacy and efforts made by various international organizations around the world on the challenge of climate change, the “Ford Automobile Environmental Award” specially established the “Climate Change Action Award” this year, which aims to encourage efforts to mitigate, adapt to climate change, and scale up The environmental protection public welfare project that has played a practical role in the low-carbon lifestyle, enhances the environmental protection organization to continue to play the value of environmental governance participants in the “double carbon” issue. This year, the award received a total of 63 project applications, covering 19 provinces and cities, of which 10 projects were implemented across provinces and 1 project was implemented overseas; 56% of the application projects for the award involved “large-scale low-carbon lifestyle”, 54% were involved in climate change mitigation, and nearly 30% were involved in climate change adaptation. According to the project results mentioned in the application proposal, the cumulative emission reduction of all projects is about 2,827 tons of carbon dioxide. Judging from the content covered by the application projects, how to deal with climate change and what actions should be taken have become emerging hot topics and practice areas of domestic environmental protection organizations.
The “Annual Contribution Award”, the gold medal of the “Ford Automobile Environmental Protection Award”, is still the award that receives the most applications, and it aims to reward environmental protection social organizations that have made outstanding achievements in environmental protection. This year, this traditional award has received applications from 91 institutions in 22 provinces/autonomous regions/municipalities. More than 80% of the applicants’ fields of work include environmental governance, and more than 60% of the applicants’ fields of work include pollution prevention and control. As of last year, a total of 455 environmental organizations or projects have been awarded the award.
In 2021, the “Ford Automobile Environmental Award” created the “Eco-tourism Route Award” for the first time in China. This award is the first in the domestic environmental protection field to use ecotourism as a new business format, and proposes to reward those ecotourism projects that encourage and attract public participation. Launched for the first time last year, it has received positive attention and declarations from a large number of ecotourism agencies. This year, the “Ecotourism Route Award” will continue to explore and support ecotourism projects with public participation, and 42 project applications have been received so far. Among them, more than 60% of the application projects are from areas with diverse ecosystems and unique ethnic cultures such as southwest and northwest, such as Qinghai, Yunnan and other places. In the third quarter, Ford will continue to carry out the “Ford Automobile Environmental Protection Award” ecological tour. At that time, experts, media and car owners will be invited to visit the award-winning projects to help the projects improve their sustainable operation capabilities and public influence.
In order to better empower domestic environmental protection organizations to improve their capabilities and develop rapidly, the organizer of the “Ford Automobile Environmental Protection Award” also invited industry experts to provide “eco-tourism” and “climate change” for nearly a thousand practitioners in June. Thematic series of online training seminars and courses.
“Ford Motor hopes that through the platform of the ‘Ford Motor Environmental Protection Award’, it will not only provide bonus support for environmental protection social organizations, but also empower environmental protection agencies and practitioners through capacity building training and help them improve their professional quality.” Ford China Communication And Yang Meihong, vice president of corporate social responsibility, said. “Ford Motor will also continue to work with China’s environmental protection agencies to create a better world through the ‘Ford Motor Environmental Award’.”
At present, all application projects have been submitted to the “Ford Automobile Environmental Award” jury for review. The members of the jury are all senior experts or practitioners in the field of environmental protection in China. They will conduct a series of strict evaluation, due diligence and other processes from a professional perspective, and finally select the annual award-winning organizations and award-winning projects. Finals and awards for the 2022 Ford Eco Awards are expected to take place at the end of the year.
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