Energy Globe Foundation: Prestigious recognition for sustainable performance

The Energy Globe is today’s most important environmental prize with 177 participating countries and annually more than 1500 project entries. It is given in recognition of outstanding performance in terms of energy efficiency, renewable energy and resource conservation worldwide. Being presented this award is a very high recognition, for ENERGY GLOBE is an internationally recognized trade mark for sustainability.

 

The national Energy Globe Award China 2015 was awarded to the project “Qunli stormwater park: A green sponge for a water-resilient city" of Turenscape, and College of Architecture and Landscape, Peking University. Shortly summarized the project focuses on: A storm water park was created in the middle of the new town which acts as a green sponge that cleanses and stores urban storm water, recharges the aquifer and protects native habitats. More about the project on www.energyglobe.info!

 

As part of this year’s World Environment Day the project was also presented by Energy Globe as part of a global online campaign (www.energyglobe.info) to a wide audience. The campaign ran under the patronage of UNESCO and in cooperation with UNEP and received great recognition and a large echo.

 

„To be honored with this award is a great recognition of our work for a better environment and motivates us to continue our endeavors in the future".

 

Kongjian Yu, National Energy Globe Winner China

 

From now on projects can be again submitted for the Energy Globe Award 2016. All details on www.energyglobe.info.

 

Jury-Rating

Along with the expansion of urbanization and the climate change that causes unpredictable precipitation, urban floods caused by storm water become a global issue. Particularly in China, where most cities experience monsoon, 70-80% of the annual precipitation are in the summer, and in some extreme cases 20% of the annual rainfall can happen on a single day. Contemporary cities are not resilient when faced with inundations of surface water. This year´s National Winner of the Energy Globe Award in China built a storm water park in the middle of a new city, solving this problem and using the storm water for recharging of the aquifer and irrigation. Congratulations to your achievement!

 

ENERGY GLOBE Facts & Figures

• Established 1999

• The world’s most prestigious environmental award

• 6000 project entries from more than 161 countries

• 1000 hours annual tv reports.

Award presenters: Kofi Annan, Martin Sheen, Mikhail Gorbachev, Dionne Warwick, etc.