Goals and Principles
Goals
- 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)