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).
