Index 2026

What this edition covers

100 K+

companies’ scoring
between 2021 and 2025

~ 200 K

EcoVadis scorecards
analyzed

10

points score gap: new vs.
longest-tenured

29 %

record Advanced+
ratings in 2025

Insights into supplier risk & performance

The EcoVadis Sustainability Ratings Index 10th Edition draws on verified ratings data from across global supply chains – mostly SMEs that form the operational backbone of trade. It measures not what companies say about their sustainability, but what they can demonstrate: the policies, measures, and reporting practices that underpin their commitments. This edition marks ten years of that measurement – and the clearest picture yet of where performance is strong, where it is weakest, and where the gap between buyer expectations and supplier reality is widest.

The headline findings

Engagement gap

Experience compounds. The gap is widening.

First-time rated companies average 51.5. Those with 10+ years in the EcoVadis network score 63.2. The 28-point difference in Advanced+ rates between those two groups is the clearest signal in the data: sustained engagement is not optional – it is where performance compounds.

highest increase in value lowest increase in value

The straggler

The weakest theme is moving fastest, but still lags.

Only 19% of companies reach Advanced+ in Sustainable Procurement, the lowest of any theme. Yet it recorded the biggest single-year gain in 2025. The markets driving that acceleration are those where buyer due diligence pressure and regulatory frameworks are landing most directly.

Reporting gap

High-quality supplier data remains the missing link.

97% of companies have Labor & Human Rights measures in place. Only 75% report on them. In Ethics, 80% have measures, 38% report. Exceptional-level reporting sits at or below 1% across every theme. This is the gap that AI-enabled supply chain intelligence cannot close without better supplier data.

Carbon blind spot

Carbon measurement grows, but transparency lacks.

While 63% of companies have environmental policies, significant gaps remain: only 26% maintain a GHG inventory, 23% publish emissions reports, and under 20% report Scope 3 upstream (19%) or downstream (15%) emissions. Setting SBTi targets and reporting Scope 3 data remain top improvement priorities.

% of companies in 2025

Engagement gap

Experience compounds. The gap is widening.

First-time rated companies average 51.5. Those with 10+ years in the EcoVadis network score 63.2. The 28-point difference in Advanced+ rates between those two groups is the clearest signal in the data: sustained engagement is not optional – it is where performance compounds.

highest increase in value lowest increase in value

The straggler

The weakest theme is moving fastest, but still lags.

Only 19% of companies reach Advanced+ in Sustainable Procurement, the lowest of any theme. Yet it recorded the biggest single-year gain in 2025. The markets driving that acceleration are those where buyer due diligence pressure and regulatory frameworks are landing most directly.

Reporting gap

High-quality supplier data remains the missing link.

97% of companies have Labor & Human Rights measures in place. Only 75% report on them. In Ethics, 80% have measures, 38% report. Exceptional-level reporting sits at or below 1% across every theme. This is the gap that AI-enabled supply chain intelligence cannot close without better supplier data.

Carbon blind spot

Carbon measurement grows, but transparency lacks.

While 63% of companies have environmental policies, significant gaps remain: only 26% maintain a GHG inventory, 23% publish emissions reports, and under 20% report Scope 3 upstream (19%) or downstream (15%) emissions. Setting SBTi targets and reporting Scope 3 data remain top improvement priorities.

% of companies in 2025

PERCEPTION VERSUS REALITY

Buyer ambition is colliding with the supplier data reality

The Barometer report finds that 85% of leading buyers have started collecting product-level carbon footprints from their supply chains. The Index reveals the challenge of scaling that ambition.

What procurement is building

What the data shows

The Barometer measures what procurement teams are investing in and asking of their suppliers. The Index measures what is actually happening and being documented across the companies that make up global supply chains. Read together, they reveal the gap between buyer ambition and supplier capability.