Driving Positive Change Through Business Sustainability.
"The year 2020 has placed sustainability higher on the agenda than ever before.
The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated the importance of building sustainable and resilient global supply chains, and many companies have placed sustainability at the heart of their “rebuilding” strategy.
We believe that EcoVadis, through its network of over 65,000 companies, has a role to play in accelerating the shift to more sustainable business practices globally.
The business case for sustainability is becoming clearer by the day, but a question remains: How do we measure the positive impact created by corporate sustainability programs?
In this first EcoVadis Network Impact Report, we share a model that summarizes, in a simple way, how EcoVadis interacts with the different stakeholders of our network to achieve positive environmental and social impacts.
How to measure positive impact is a question that must be treated with due gravity.
And we strived to ensure the impact model we have developed to assess the achievements of the EcoVadis network is backed by a robust methodological framework.
This paper details our progress on the parts of the impact model that we are able to measure today.
Future editions will seek to measure and report on progress across the entire model. We look forward to continuing this journey of impact measurement and will regularly communicate on how we measure the positive impacts achieved by the EcoVadis network."
