Measuring your company’s sustainability
Measuring an SME’s sustainability is an essential step in adapting its activities to sustainable development principles.
To improve a company's sustainability, it is necessary to identify how the materials and components used during production influence its environmental performance. These measurements should be taken at four levels of production:
- Production factors
- Operational processes
- End product
- Tools
What is to have an impact, must be possible to evaluate: This also applies to sustainability. A uniform scale is needed so that SMEs in particular can benefit directly from their sustainability. Private providers offer companies a range of tools. These are not validated by the federal government. One example is the esg2go – Rating & Reporting System from the Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS), an associated institute at the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR).
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Measuring the sustainability of production factors
By using sustainability measurements in their production factors, SMEs can improve their performances and reduce their costs.
Measuring the sustainability of an end product
To measure the sustainability of an end product, a company must not only take its composition into account, but also its use.
Measuring the sustainability of operational processes
The company’s operational processes have a marked influence on its global environmental performances, hence the advantage in measuring sustainability.