IFF Kicks off Annual Green Finance Award Selection on World Environment Day

BEIJING, June 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The International Finance Forum (IFF) will start accepting applications for the annual IFF Global Green Finance Award, from June 5, which is also the World Environment Day.

Echoing the theme of World Environment Day ,”Only One Earth”, which stresses on  the need to change through policy changes and our choices to live in harmony with nature in a sustainable way, the IFF Global Green Finance Award is targeting  applicants offering green financial solutions that promote the transformation of economic growth modes, contribute to pollution prevention and control and address climate change, as well as improve energy efficiency, energy conservation and emission reductions. This year’s award is a global call for innovations and application practices in policy, system, industry, services, technology and talent building.

The Earth is our only home, and we must protect its limited resources. Unsustainable consumption and production are contributing to climate change, natural degradation and biodiversity loss, as well as pollution and waste crisis. All of these issues intersect and overlap, seriously jeopardizing the future of the planet.

 Natural resources are the basis for most goods, services and facilities, and the foundation that supports our economy. However, the linear “take-make-dispose” model is driving the global economy while consuming vast amounts of natural resources. Nature is in the “emergency mode” and we have little time…