EcoVadis, the leading sustainability intelligence platform for global supply chains, today announced its partnership with the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) as part of the “Friends of EFRAG” group. This collaboration is built on a shared goal to promote consistent, trustworthy, and actionable sustainability reporting across industries, especially across global value chains. Most importantly, […]
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The Europe Sustainable Development Report 2025 (ESDR), a new report released today by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), reveals waning SDG advancement and persistent social, environmental, and biodiversity challenges across the European Union (EU) underscoring the need for the new EU leadership to reaffirm its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The […]
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EcoVadis, the leading sustainability intelligence platform for global supply chains, today announces it has added a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) questionnaire to its risk and sustainability management solution suite. This includes its market-leading AI-powered risk management platform IQ Plus and the light Vitals questionnaire, and works seamlessly with EcoVadis Ratings. An estimated 50,000 companies must comply with CSRD […]
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Today, SOMO is launching the CSDDD Datahub – a database containing the corporate groups, subsidiaries, home countries, and sectors of the companies that will need to comply with the CSDDD when it enters into force. Analysis by SOMO shows that only 3,400 corporate groups in the EU will be in the scope of the new […]
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The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has today published its first Social Benchmark, assessing the world’s 2,000 most influential companies on their responsibility in meeting society’s fundamental expectations towards three measurement areas – respecting human rights, providing decent work, and acting ethically. The Benchmark reveals significant gaps and areas on which companies urgently need to make progress to ensure […]
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EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, announced it was named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024. EcoVadis was selected in the enterprise category for its contributions to the business sustainability industry in the past 12 months including enhancements to its predictive intelligence solution IQ Plus. Companies require […]
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A new global study by the IBM Institute for Business Value found that while a majority of organizations recognize sustainability as important to their business strategy, many C-suite leaders are struggling to fund their sustainability investments. Data collected from 5,000 global C-suite executives highlighted that organizations that embed sustainability within their operations see better sustainability and financial […]
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An interdisciplinary team of Oxford University researchers have today released an update to flagship guidance on credible and net zero aligned carbon offsetting, which has been used by hundreds of organisations since its publication in 2020. “The vast majority of current offsetting approaches are not getting us any closer to net zero emissions, and trust in the […]
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Climate investments in the EU economy grew by 9% in 2022. A report published by Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE) finds that the European Green Deal is gaining economic momentum but investments in modernising energy, transport, and buildings must still double for the EU to hit 2030 climate targets. Climate investments made today shape Europe’s […]
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Preqin, the global leader in alternative assets data, tools, and insights, and Impact Institute, a leading provider of impact technology solutions developed by worldwide experts in impact measurement and valuation, today announced a partnership to equip investment professionals with cutting-edge asset-level impact data to enhance deal origination workflows. These innovative data points will also unlock […]
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The Systems Transformation Hub, a pioneering venture designed to drive systemic solutions for Europe, was launched on 24 January 2024 at the European Parliament by a coalition of five thought-leading organizations. This comes at a pivotal time of complex and interconnected crises in the lead-up to key elections in the European Union. The world faces […]
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Over the past five years, the number of discussions, debates and articles related to the circular economy has almost tripled in spite of the global circularity rate falling from 9.1% to 7.2%. This is according to the Circularity Gap Report 2024, launched by Circle Economy Foundation and Deloitte today. The report moves from theory to […]
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