Awarded Climate Solver Award by the World Wildlife Fund to Huawei
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Phoenix TV co-hosted Climate Action Week – Zero Carbon Mission Global Climate Summit (hereinafter “the Summit”) in Beijing, China, on September 22. In conjunction with the event, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (hereafter referred to as World Wide Fund for Nature Climate Solver Award 2021) earned the honor for its Fusion Solar Smart PV solution.
During this year’s summit, the Carbon Neutrality Action Leadership Award was officially launched, an award based on Science-Based Targets (SBTi) and Race to Zero. The aim is to recognize individuals, teams, and projects that excel in areas such as business commitment, innovative technology, measurable results, and impactful communication, to encourage companies to engage in activities that reduce carbon emissions, drive various industries to set up emission reduction targets, and set an example by taking such actions.
It is based on the WWF Climate Solver program, launched in China in 2011 and based on the Carbon Neutrality Actor – Climate Solver of the Year award. Through its research and selection of innovative low-carbon technologies, this program will pursue a goal of preventing global average temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius by
Promoting climate technologies with revolutionary potential by fostering favorable conditions.
A total of 34 innovative low-carbon technologies have been recognized since the award was launched in 2011. Climate Solver Awards applications were accepted from December 2020 through March of this year. From a range of candidates, the Huawei FusionSolar Smart PV solution has been deemed the best by a stringent compliance review, a primary election, and two rounds of expert evaluation.
There were particularly strict criteria in this year’s selection process. In the on-site reply process, the participants considered not only the level of technical advance (20%), economics (20%), and maturity (15%) of the candidates, but also their environmental and ecological benefits, growth prospects, and social benefits, which were calculated to determine the final score.
Huawei Digital Power
Huawei Digital Power served customers by generating 403.4 billion kWh of electricity with green energy by June 30, 2021, reducing electricity consumption by 12.4 billion kWh and reducing emissions of CO2 by 200 million tons, the equivalent of planting 270 million trees.
Among the guests invited to the summit with the theme “Global Carbon Neutrality and China’s Role” were former Vice President Al Gore, UNEP representative Tu Ruihe, and Jia Feng, Director of MEP’s Center for Environmental Education and Communications.; to discuss global carbon neutrality, corporate commitment to climate goals, green infrastructure, etc.
Financial transformation, energy-efficient construction, sustainable transportation, and green building. It will bring together resources, fully mobilize corporate engagement in combating climate change, and provide service to local governments and corporations providing them with training, technology development, and results in the demonstration, as well as knowledge sharing and international exchange to achieve peak CO2 emissions and carbon neutrality.
About Huawei
Huawei was founded in 1987, and it is the world’s leading provider of networks, devices, and infrastructure for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. We employ over 197,000 people and serve more than three billion customers worldwide from more than 170 countries and regions.
To create a fully connected, intelligent world, our vision and mission are to bring digital into everyone’s home, work and life.
To achieve this, we plan to bring artificial intelligence and cloud computing to all corners of the globe to deliver superior computing power where and when needed; build digital platforms to improve organizational flexibility, efficiency, and effectiveness.
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