CPR Blogpost

Construction Products Regulation (CPR): PCF for all Construction Materials

The Future of the Construction Industry in the EU: A Look at the New Proposal for the Harmonization of Construction Products The European Commission has recently put forward a proposal for a regulation by the European Parliament and the Council that could potentially revolutionize the marketing of construction products within the European Union (EU). This…

CDP Water Security

CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2023 and UN Water 2023 Conference

CDP is introducing the topic of plastic pollution to the 2023 Water Security questionnaire CDP currently has three different questionnaires: CDP Climate Change, CDP Water Security and CDP Forests. All three of them have seen a significant increase in the number of disclosing companies each year. CDP continuously improves the questions and adapts the questionnaire…

EcoVadis Index 2019

EcoVadis Index

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)…

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A pragmatic approach to environmental issues – An interview with Sebastian Gschwill

Mr. Gschwill is the Energy Manager of the Hirschvogel Automotive Group, the parent company of the Hirschvogel Umformtechnik GmbH, producer of forged steel and aluminium parts. The plant in Denklingen, where the Hirschvogel Holding is located, is the largest production facility and also the development center for the whole Hirschvogel Automotive Group. Mr. Gschwill has…

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ESG criteria

The acronym ESG is an English abbreviation which stands for ‘Environment’, ‘Social’ and ‘Governance’. What are ESG criteria? ESG criteria help investors to find out how sustainable a company behaves in order to be able to make more targeted investment decisions (e. g. to do risk assessments well). The ESG criteria are used by investors…

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ESG-Kriterien

Das Akronym ESG ist eine englische Abkürzung und steht für „Environment“, „Social“ und „Governance“ (sprich: Umwelt, Soziales/Gesellschaft und Unternehmensführung/-struktur). Was sind ESG-Kriterien? ESG-Kriterien geben Investoren Aufschluss darüber, inwieweit sich ein Unternehmen nachhaltig verhält, um gezieltere Investitionsentscheidungen treffen zu können (bspw. um Risiken besser einschätzen zu können). Die ESG-Kriterien dienen den Investoren der kennzahlenbasierten Messung von…

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Constitution of a ’Sustainability Policy’

This blog article briefly discusses the framework conditions as well as possible measures for drafting a ‘Sustainability Policy’ and makes a point of reference to the EcoVadis sustainability assessment platform. Short introduction – what is a ‘Sustainability Policy’? A ‘Sustainability Policy’ sets a defined framework and limits the necessary actions to achieve the goals in…

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Verfassung einer Nachhaltigkeits-Policy

Dieser Blogartikel behandelt kurz und einschlägig die Rahmenbedingungen sowie mögliche Maßnahmen, um eine Nachhaltigkeits-Policy zu verfassen und stellt dabei punktuell einen Bezug zur Nachhaltigkeitsbewertungsplattform EcoVadis her. Kurze Einführung – was ist eine Nachhaltigkeits-Policy? Eine Nachhaltigkeits-Policy gibt einen definierten Rahmen vor und grenzt die dafür nötigen Handlungen zur Zielerreichung in nachhaltigkeitsrelevanten Bereichen (z. B. Umwelt, Soziales,…