This year the 71st celebration of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights (UDHR) takes place. DFGE outlines key points and general information of the Human Rights Day in this article. Human Rights Day Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10th December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration…
DFGE has recently published the whitepaper „Sustainability Challenges and Resources in the Chemical Industry“. In this paper, DFGE outlines the sustainability challenges the chemical industry is facing and provides ways to respond to them by presenting suitable standards and initiatives. Importance of the chemical industry The share of the chemical industry in all goods and…
More and more companies in the automotive supplier industry are confronted with increasing demands on the part of OEMs. These include, above all, queries on various sustainability issues via the so-called SAQ. What is it about? The SAQ[1] (Self-Assessment-Questionnaire) is a supplier questionnaire in the automotive (supplier) industry. It is part of an industry-wide long-term…
The background EcoVadis is a supply chain assessment which helps companies to understand and quantify sustainability risks within their supply chain. Unlike individual questionnaires or very specific ones like CDP, EcoVadis offers a standardised approach which is able to compare the performance of companies with entirely different profiles on a rating scale from 1 (bad)…
What is the EcoVadis Sustainable Procurement Barometer? The EcoVadis Sustainable Procurement Barometer is a biennial study series, started in 2007, which showcases sustainable procurement developments and practices of companies from all sectors. The report consists of a buyer and a supplier survey, each of which is created using data from online questionnaires and in-depth interviews…
On September 23, 2019, the Climate Action Summit took place in New York, where leaders from governments, businesses and civil society announced significant and far-reaching steps to combat climate change. “The best science, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tells us that any temperature rise above 1.5 degrees will lead to major and…
Due to increasing requirements in the pharmaceutical industry, DFGE introduces the PSCI and especially its established pharmaceutical industry principles for responsible supply chain management in the following. What is the PSCI? The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI) is an initiative formed as a non-profit business membership in 2006, which is addressing challenges, such as supply…
DFGE introduces a new interactive Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool which enables companies to both set up science-based emission targets (SBTs) and develop a strategy on how to meet them at the lowest costs. More and more companies quantify their greenhouse gas emissions (Carbon Footprint), report them publicly (e.g. via CDP) and set up science-based emission targets…
The DJSI 2019 results were released last Friday (13/09/2019). The DJSI, or Dow Jones Sustainability Index, is a stock exchange index, which includes Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria into the ranking. DJSI 2019: Participation keeps increasing In March 2019, a total of 3,519 companies were invited to take part in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment…
DFGE has recently published the new whitepaper “Closed-loop value chains: how to move towards a circular business model”. In this paper, DFGE demonstrates how a business can create a loop value chain in which no ‘waste’, such as food waste, packaging or energy, is generated. The term ‘circular economy’ has evolved into one of the…
