To provide a comprehensive assessment of environmental sustainability and social responsibility through a uniform and aggregable measurement of the preventive cost distance to sustainability.
To have preventative costs as a permanent part of the supplier – customer communication.
To encourage end-producer companies and their whole value chains to calculate and execute sustainable solutions.
Long term: To set up a certification system with third party verification
Key principles
Costs of preventing negative sustainability impacts are calculated
Entire product value chains covered
Assessment based on performance of value chain actors
UN Sustainable Development Goals comprehensively addressed
Transparent data & methodology
Based on latest scientific research
(Approval of scientific committee for adaptation of assessment system and its methodology)
(Third party verification for the external communication of results required)