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EcoVadis, the leading sustainability intelligence platform for global supply chains, yesterday announced the winners of its ninth annual Sustainability Achievement Awards (formerly Sustainable Procurement Awards). Winners were announced at the EcoVadis Sustain 2025 conference.

EcoVadis, the leading sustainability intelligence platform for global supply chains, today unveiled its Carbon Data Network (CDN) at the Sustain 2025 conference. CDN represents a giant leap-forward in Scope 3 decarbonization, providing businesses with unparalleled access to insights on primary carbon data reliability from their suppliers. Built on a network of more than 150,000 organizations, this streamlined collection and transparency of primary emissions data empowers companies to drive and measure their Scope 3 decarbonization progress.

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.

EcoVadis, the globally trusted sustainability intelligence platform, announced today it will offer a Coupa Connector in the Coupa App Marketplace. The Coupa Connector seamlessly synchronizes EcoVadis sustainability ratings and risk profile data with each supplier’s Coupa profile, so buyers can make strategic purchasing and supplier relationship management decisions based on a supplier's sustainability risk, performance, and maturity.

EcoVadis, the leading sustainability intelligence platform for global supply chains, today announces the hiring of Antoine Verger and Varena Junge to expand EcoVadis’ existing carbon expertise. In a move to push the boundaries on GHG emission reduction strategies, the two will be tasked with developing a Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) tool as part of EcoVadis’ Carbon Action Manager solution that already supports growing carbon maturity across supply chains. Verger and Junge’s expertise will build upon EcoVadis’ holistic supply chain decarbonization strategy which helps organizations increase the availability and quality of granular carbon data at product level.

The Association of Beverage Machinery Industry (ABMI), and three leading packaging machinery industry organizations - CFT, Gassner, and Krones, in collaboration with EcoVadis, launched the IMPackT Initiative. This groundbreaking sector initiative in the packaging machinery industry is part of EcoVadis’ effort to foster industry collaboration and amplify impact.

EcoVadis, the globally trusted sustainability intelligence platform, announces the strategic acquisition of Ulula, a leading human rights technology and analytics company aiming to improve working conditions across global supply chains. Ulula's on-the-ground worker engagement platform will enhance the depth and reliability of EcoVadis’ portfolio of solutions available to customers across their supply chains, advancing responsible and fair employment practices around the world.

Companies of all sizes across the EcoVadis Network, particularly those with multiple ratings, are making measurable progress on a broad spectrum of sustainability challenges. These insights and more are found in the eighth edition of the Business Sustainability Index, published today by business sustainability ratings provider EcoVadis.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, today announced it was named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, today announces the sustainable procurement impact achieved over a decade of continuous momentum by its Sector Initiative members. A Sector Initiative is a purpose-based group of companies in the same industry, facing similar ESG challenges and values, ready to commit to an ambitious agenda of sustainability value chain transformation.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, today announced the winners of its eighth annual Sustainability Achievement Awards (formerly Sustainable Procurement Awards). Winners were announced at the EcoVadis Sustain 2024 conference.

Air France-KLM, Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic today announced the launch of the Sustainable Airlines Initiative (SAI) in partnership with EcoVadis. Driven by members’ commitment to improve sustainability performance, the SAI will work to accelerate sustainable practices through close collaboration with trading partners to build transparency and scale positive impact across their value chains.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, today released its 2024 Sustainable Procurement Barometer report. Co-developed with Accenture, the Barometer reveals procurement’s untapped potential to drive business value through sustainable supply chain programs, and transform into a key agent of an organization’s resilience and growth in a rapidly changing world.

EcoVadis, along with leading sector organizations, announced their efforts to rapidly advance the mobility and vehicle industry toward a more sustainable future through The Accelerate Initiative. As founding members of the initiative, General Motors, John Deere, Stellantis, and Tenneco seek to accelerate the adoption of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) topics that are most important to the sector. Members aim to create synergies with their shared value chain partners to drive GHG emissions reductions and address labor & human rights and ethical risks.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, today announces it has gained accreditation by CDP into its network of service providers. As a global Gold Software Solution Provider, EcoVadis will support companies disclosing to CDP to implement ambitious sustainability practices.

EcoVadis and several leading global hospitality organizations – Accor, Hilton, IHG Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International and Radisson Hotel Group, and two global hospitality group purchasing organizations, Avendra and Entegra – today announce the launch of The Hospitality Alliance for Responsible Procurement (HARP). Driven by members’ commitment to improve sustainability performance, the Alliance will work to accelerate sustainable practices by fostering close collaboration with trading partners to build transparency and scale positive impact across their value chains.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, today announces the addition of a new feature, the EcoVadis Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Data Exchange, into its Carbon Action Module (CAM) to unlock PCF tracking across its network of suppliers, of which 40,000 are engaged in carbon action. PCF Data Exchange overcomes a key barrier to carbon reduction strategies – reporting GHG emissions for the actual products and services purchased across the supply chain – and helps change the way organizations engage on a decarbonization journey with their trading partners.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, today announced its Carbon Action Module (CAM) has received a Top Product of the Year Award from Environment + Energy Leader. The 2023 E+E Leader Awards program commends excellence in products and projects that deliver significant energy and environmental benefits.

Companies across the globe, of all sizes and maturity, continue to improve their sustainability performance and build upon ongoing progress to implement positive sustainable practices across their value chains. This insight and more are found in the seventh edition of the Business Sustainability Index, published today by business sustainability ratings provider EcoVadis.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, today announced the winners of its seventh annual Sustainable Procurement Leadership Awards program. Winners were announced at the EcoVadis Sustain 2023 virtual conference.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, today announces the addition of Carbon Heatmap into its Carbon Action Module solution, which provides a simple entry point into a supplier decarbonization journey. Unveiled at the EcoVadis Sustain 2023 conference, Carbon Heatmap is ideal for companies who want an intelligent carbon emissions risk mapping tool to quickly and easily identify carbon hotspots across their trading partners.

EcoVadis is reporting on the sustainable business practices being adopted by the 100,000+ companies with a sustainability rating in its network and the key metrics quantifying the positive social and environmental outcomes of these efforts. Nearly 1,000 enterprise customers are now using the EcoVadis platform to manage their value chain sustainability, expanding the total global procurement spend covered by EcoVadis Ratings to more than $2.6 trillion. These insights and more, mapped across EcoVadis’ model for generating impact, are revealed today in the sustainability ratings provider’s third annual Network Impact Report.

With organizations finding it difficult to gain complete visibility on the sustainability risks of their trading partners as supply chains grow increasingly complex, EcoVadis announces it has added AI and data mining enhancements to its market-leading predictive intelligence solution.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of globally trusted business sustainability ratings, today announced that it has been named the winner of a 2022 Private Equity Wire US Award in the category of Best ESG Advisory. Chosen by industry voters, the winners represent the best in the US private equity (PE) industry, from fund managers to service providers, covering all areas of the PE ecosystem.

EcoVadis announced today that its Business Sustainability Ratings for SAP® Ariba® solution is now an SAP Endorsed App, available on SAP Store. SAP Endorsed Apps are a category of solutions from SAP’s partner ecosystem that help customers become best-run, intelligent enterprises. Endorsed apps are meant to deliver value with desired outcomes.

Companies of all sizes around the world have improved their sustainability performance over the past five years. This insight and more are found in the sixth edition of the annual Business Sustainability Risk & Performance Index, published today by business sustainability ratings provider EcoVadis. More companies than ever are also engaging in sustainability ratings. EcoVadis saw a 61% growth in the number of assessments from 2017-2021, and for the first time in 2021, more than half of all companies have been assessed multiple times.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of globally trusted business sustainability ratings, today announced the company has been named a leader in "The Forrester New Wave™: ESG Ratings, Data, And Analytics, Q3 2022" report. EcoVadis received a differentiated rating – the highest score possible – across six of the ten criteria evaluated: Reported Data, Presentation, Connections/Integrations, Market Approach, Performance Modeling, and Product Vision. The company also received an on-par rating in the Sourced Data, Standards Integrity and Execution Roadmap criteria.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of globally trusted business sustainability ratings, today released its Carbon Maturity Report exploring the state of climate action in the EcoVadis Network. The report – which outlines the EcoVadis Network Impact Model for supply chain decarbonization – shows that progress is being made on key early decarbonization phases among the companies EcoVadis has rated since launching its Carbon Action Module (CAM) in the spring of 2021.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of globally trusted business sustainability ratings, today announced the acquisition of ecotrek, a sustainability data mining company. The company’s automated sustainability data collection, scanning, and analysis capabilities will complement EcoVadis’ portfolio of solutions by enhancing technical capabilities, improving customer experience, and expanding visibility with robust information about trading partners, thus accelerating the pace of its global scale.

EcoVadis, the leading provider of globally trusted business sustainability ratings, has raised $500M with plans to accelerate its vision of influencing every business decision with sustainability intelligence, becoming a sustainability impact unicorn.

EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, today announces the winners of its sixth annual Sustainable Procurement Leadership Awards program. Winners were announced at the EcoVadis Sustain 2022 virtual conference.

The second annual EcoVadis Network Impact Report, released today, shows rapid acceleration in the “scaling up” of sustainability impacts, such as the increased use of reuse & recycle measures, increased implementation of equality programs, and more. Since 2016, several positive environmental and social actions have risen sharply and the total scope of score improvement has tripled across the EcoVadis network.

EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, today launched its EcoVadis Academy. The eLearning platform, available to EcoVadis customers, gives organizations guidance to tackle priority improvement areas across Environment, Labor and Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement practices. Adaptable to each customer’s sustainability journey, EcoVadis Academy helps organizations drive impact at scale within their value chains.

North America is rapidly gaining ground on Europe to become a region to watch in terms of corporate sustainability leadership. This insight and more are found in the fifth annual edition of the Business Sustainability Risk & Performance Index, published today by business sustainability ratings provider EcoVadis. While Europe is home to nearly half of the world’s most sustainable publicly listed companies, North American organizations are reducing the performance gap at an increasingly rapid pace – establishing an EcoVadis sustainability rating score of 46.5, a new high for the region.

EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, today released its 2021 Sustainable Procurement Barometer. Conducted with Stanford Graduate School of Business, the research found that delivering on corporate sustainability goals has shifted to the top of the executive agenda, with 63% of executives now saying it’s very important, compared to only 25% two years ago.