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Understanding your carbon output and activity using the sector specific tools signposted below will help your business to understand its environmental impacts within the context of your industry.
| Name | Sector | Description | Resource Link | Cost |
| SmartView® 360 Platform by CRD Analytics | Sustainability investment analysis | This tool considering: financial, environmental, social, governance, brand perception and reputational risk. This software and service need to be purchased from CRD Analytics
Useful for: Startups, companies >2yrs and investors. Application: Company level |
CRD Analytics | Dependant on services required |
| SASB Materiality Map® | Sustainability accounting tool | SASB’s Materiality Map® identifies sustainability issues that are likely to affect the financial condition or operating performance of companies within an industry. It is free and comprehensive, overlooks several industries. Gives you option to view the data on industrial and sectoral levels. This tool had been intensively reviewed.
Useful for: Startups, companies >2yrs and investors. Application: Company level |
SASB | Free |
| Quantis develops customised sustainability solutions software | Hybrid tool | Fuelled by a solid LCA and IT expertise, Quantis develops tailored solutions to help clients reach their objectives. A customized tool delivers full ownership, higher usage adoption and efficiency, as well as flexible evolution.
Useful for: Startups, companies >2yrs, political community, procurement and investors. Application: Company level |
Quantis | |
| Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF) |
Hybrid tool | The Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF) is a multi-criteria measure of the environmental performance of a goods/services-providing Organisation from a life cycle perspective. 7 impact categories are considered: Climate change; ozone depletion; ecotoxicity - fresh water; human toxicity - cancer effects; human toxicity - non-cancer effects; particulate matter/respiratory inorganics; ionizing radiation - human health effects; photochemical ozone formation; acidification; eutrophication - terrestrial; eutrophication - aquatic; resource depletion - water; resource depletion - mineral and fossil and land use. Comprehensive and scientific approach, integrating life cycle thinking. The tool is free but requires data and possible a practitioner.
Useful for: Startups, companies >2yrs, political community, procurement and investors. Application: Company level |
OEF | Dependant on services required |
| Circulytics | Hybrid tool | Ciculytics support's a company's transition towards the circular economy, regardless of industry, complexity and size. This tool reveals the extent to which a company has achieved circularity across its entire operations. It does this by using enablers and outcomes. Measures a company's entire circularity; supports decision making and strategic development for circular economy adoption; demonstrates strengths; provides optional transparency to investors and customers about a company's circular economy adoption; delivers clarity about circular economy performance. The tool is free but requires an application process
Useful for: Startups, companies >2yrs, political community, procurement and investors. Application: Company level |
Ellen Macarthur Foundation | Free |
| SDG Action Manager | Hybrid tool | The SDG Action Manager brings together B Lab’s B Impact Assessment, the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact, and the Sustainable Development Goals, to enable meaningful business action through dynamic self-assessment, benchmarking, and improvement. It is informed by the work and feedback of a range of stakeholders, including experts in corporate sustainability, civil society, UN, and academia. The tool can find your starting point; understand and share your impact; set goals and track improvement.
Useful for: Startups, companies >2yrs, political community, procurement and investors. Application: Company level |
UN Global Compact | Free |
| Worldwide Generation G17Eco | Monitoring and marketplace ecosystem platform | Automates the mapping, monitoring, measuring, managing and marketing of any stakeholder's contribution to the UN SDGs. The platform is comprised of many layers of technology infrastructure, taxonomies, governing councils and interoperability with sectors, systems and apps. This level of interconnectedness and standardisation aims to unlock trusted, comparable and real-time data and impact measurement to empower our decision making of where to invest, divest, manage risk and create effective sustainable solutions at scale.
Useful for: Startups, companies >2yrs, political community, procurement and investors. Application: Company level |
World Wide Generation | Free |
| Sedex | Hybrid tool | Sedex is a membership organisation that provides an online platforms for companies to manage and improve working conditions in global supply chains. We provide practical tools, services and a community network to help companies improve their responsible and sustainable business practices, and source responsibly. It is a due diligence tool which auditors use to assess the performance of a site remotely through the use of video conferencing. Supplier membership enables you to share data about your business with customers, improve ethical practices and demonstrate sustainable performance. Buyer membership helps your business gain visibility of your supply chain, identify risks within your own business and take action to ensure you're sourcing responsibility and minimising business and ethical risks.
Useful for: Startups, companies >2yrs, political community, procurement and investors. Application: Company level |
Sedex | Annual membership subscription |
| EcoVadis | Hybrid tool | Ecovadis helps manage your network by sharing your performance with your stakeholders or monitoring the performance of your own upstream, value chain. Allows your business to collaborate on sustainability with a common platform, universal scorecard, benchmarks and performance improvement tools.
Useful for: Startups, companies >2yrs, political community, procurement and investors. Application: Company level |
Ecovadis | Dependent on company size |
| GreenMark | Hybrid tool | Green Mark provides an online process that identifies cost savings and provides template guidance to help you develop an environmental management system. Save money through reducing your impact, receive marketing material and increase employee engagement.
Useful for: Startups, companies >2yrs, political community, procurement and investors. Application: Company level |
Greenmark | Dependent on company size |
