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Every hero needs a guide
We guide our customers to take action with our ratings and insights.
Every company is on a journey
Our work is to enable, support, empower our customers on this journey.
We aspire to reach every company on the planet
Not because we will, but because we want to engage all companies to take action.
Sustainability
as a goal
A sustainable world is one where the well-being of our planet & society is valued by all economic actors.
Our purpose is embedded in our company bylaws and is supported by four core purpose objectives:
Curious about taking on this legal status yourself?
Learn more about our journey to become a purpose-driven company.
Improvement – toward a sustainable world…
By engaging, rating, and training organizations across global supply chains, we help drive systemic change and support businesses in improving their social and environmental practices toward a just and regenerative world.
At scale – through global supply chains…
We empower companies to seamlessly engage with their trading partners across diverse industries, geographies and sustainability maturity levels, enabling comprehensive assessments and focused improvements of businesses’ impact, at scale.
Drives impact
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The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally-accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption.
The Diversity Charter is a written commitment that can be signed by any company, regardless of its size, that wishes to ban discrimination in the workplace and intends to work towards creating diversity. It expresses a company’s willingness to truly reflect the diversity of French society through their workforce.
Companies are under ever more pressure to contribute to a sustainable future. With the 2030 Development Agenda and ambitious international agreements to mitigate climate change, there is increasing momentum for change. Businesses are taking action towards a more sustainable world, and, with the new GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards, companies are in a position to unlock the transformational power of sustainability data.
ObsAR (Observatory of Sustainable Purchases) is an association created to encourage the exchange of information and knowledge and to develop strong practices related to sustainable purchasing. EcoVadis joined the ObsAR in 2018 and is one of the founding members of the “Programme Action Achats et Économie Circulaire” (Purchasing and Circular Economy Action Program), which is a joint initiative to make the circular economy a key parameter of choice in companies’ purchasing policies.
CDP runs the global disclosure system that enables companies, cities, states and regions to measure and manage their environmental impacts. EcoVadis and CDP have been in a partnership since 2012, offering an enhanced service to both EcoVadis and CDP Supply Chain customers, as well as to reduce the requests for companies in the supply chains of large purchasing corporations to report on how they are managing carbon.
L’ORSE is a multi-stakeholder organization which supports the transformation of CSR in companies. L’ORSE works together with the main actors of CSR and SRI in Europe and in the world. EcoVadis is a partner of L’ORSE.
RHSF (Human Resources Without Borders) is an independent NGO working in the prevention of child and forced labor since 2006. Given the complexity of the issue, RHSF set up a fund in December 2017 with the aim of gathering a force for preventing child and forced labor. EcoVadis joined this force together with other companies, such as Crédit Agricole, Maisons du Monde, Petzl, and Total.
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a collaboration between the UNGC, CDP, WRI and WWF and one of the We Mean Business Coalition commitments. EcoVadis has joined the global movement of 100 leading companies aligning their businesses with the most ambitious aim of the Paris Agreement, to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial level. More importantly, this commitment will push us to better understand what Science Based Targets means while developing necessary expertise, allowing us to start developing tools on our platform that will help our 60,000 customers to improve on GHG emissions in 2020.
The Future of Sustainable Data Alliance is the proactive voice of the sustainable data ecosystem.
The Parity Pact initiative has been co-created with the companies of the French Tech 120 programme in order to advance the issue of parity in French Tech.