2016.05.16
9th Annual Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards Registration Launched, Aims to Recognize Four Exem
In December 2015, at the COP21 meeting in Paris, France adopted the legally binding “Paris Agreement”. As the entire planet now enters the age of mandatory carbon reduction, the United Nations have adopted a plan for “Sustainable Development Objectives”, while encouraging emergence of corporate sustainability as a focal point. Global enterprises are assiduously investing human capital resources, capital, and other resources, to ensure environmental resources, economic growth and social justice and equity, thereby realizing truly sustainable development.
The Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy is hosting the Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards (TCSA), and recognizing enterprises for fulfilling their social responsibility and promoting corporate efforts in sustainable development. In the past nine years of the Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards, our judging has resulted in widespread favorable responses and recognition from enterprises and civil society. Prior participating enterprises total 138 firms operating income in 2014 constituted 86.25% of GDP, indicating the importance that Taiwan’s enterprises place on sustainability and joining in the TCSA Competition. This year’s Awards registration process has now been launched, and we welcome entrants from all sectors seeking to achieve this high recognition for sustainability success.
So as to create corporate value together, the Ninth Annual TCSA Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards have flexible Evaluation Guidelines including four categories. TCSA recognizes corporate implementation of sustainability efficacy with the “Corporate Comprehensive Performance” Award, recognizes excellence in respective areas through the “Best Performance of Specific Category” Awards, encourages corporate information disclosure transparency through the “Corporate Sustainability Report” Award, and provides recognition for outstanding contributions in promoting enterprise efforts at sustainable development by providing for individuals to be honored for their “The Outstanding Corporate Sustainability Professionals”. These four major Award categories allow for evaluation of domestic corporate sustainability contributions of an exemplary nature and outstanding corporate sustainability reportage, recognizing leaders in Taiwan corporate sustainability for widespread emulation.
The Ninth Annual TCSA registration is open now through Monday, August 1, 2016. We welcome prospective entrants from Taiwan enterprises, international firms, public entities and government agencies, hospitals, and schools and universities. Register now online at our official website, tcsaward.org.tw, where you can find more detailed information. We hope that you will the many other participating corporations and organizations in the Awards to promote implementation of sustainable operations management strategies, unleashing innovation potential, enhancing Taiwan Corporate Sustainability and social responsibility development standards, and harmonizing and integrating with the international community.