The supplier rating platform EcoVadis has published this year´s Sustainability Risk and Performance Index 2021. The following will provide a short overview on the most important findings of this year’s Risk and Performance 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)…
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…
Sustainability Summit 2019: Zum ersten Mal trafen sich Mitglieder des BME Ende August in Frankfurt beim Gastgeber der KfW-Bank, um das Thema CSR deutlich auf die Agenda des Einkaufs zu bringen. Gerade die Beschaffung hat einen gewaltigen Hebel und auch eine klare Verantwortung, wenn es um den Bezug von Waren und Dienstleistungen geht. Das sog.…
DFGE is very happy to have attended EcoVadis annual SustaIN event in Paris. The conference motto, “now is the time”, brought attention to the urgency to act now and built momentum to drive sustainable supply chain. Now is the time to act: why On the evening of the 10th of April, Isabelle Autisser, former French…
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…
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,…
Our Partner EcoVadis released last week their Global CSR Risk and Performance Index, a study on more than 20,000 companies. Read below their blog entry: 12 September 2017 by EcoVadis „The first annual Global CSR Risk and Performance Index reveals progress of more than 20,400 companies looking to improve their sustainability efforts. Today we published our…
In May 2016, DFGE launched a series of CSR checklists to improve the Sustainability programs of organizations, based on ISO 26 000, the norm for social responsibility. First, we focused on the general structure and governance of such program. Then, we applied it to the main core subjects of Social Responsibility: Environment, Labor Practices, Human…
