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:
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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
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.
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 (FoSDA) brings together experts to advance the use of data in sustainability, with its Biodiversity Working Group (BDWG) focusing specifically on key topics and challenges in biodiversity data. As a member of the FoSDA Biodiversity Working Group, EcoVadis is committed to contributing our expertise to these discussions and providing insights that help shape the understanding and application of biodiversity data for corporate action.
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.
The TNFD Forum is a multi-disciplinary coalition of institutional supporters, united by its mission to develop and promote a global risk management and disclosure framework for nature-related risks. As a member of the TNFD Forum, EcoVadis is committed to contributing our comprehensive sustainability ratings and data intelligence to the refinement and technical work of this crucial framework, thereby helping organizations identify, assess, and manage their material nature-related risks and opportunities.
Ecovadis is a signatory of the Responsible Supplier Relations Charter, which encourages companies and public and private organizations to adopt responsible practices toward their suppliers.
