Literature Review Memo on SDGs and Procurement · In this study, we explore whether the SDGs could be a useful organizing framework and guidepost for sustainable procurement programs

25 MARCH 2020

Literature Review Memo on SDGs and Procurement

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

- Lead author: Anastasia O’Rourke (IEc)

- Research and editorial support from: Justine Huang (IEc), Fiona Schmid

(UNEP intern), Marie Strauss (UNEP intern) and Ju Hee Ahn (UNEP Intern).

- Overseen by: Farid Yaker (UNEP) and Tim Hopper (Microsoft)

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INTRODUCTION

Through procurement of goods and services, organizations have a large impact on the economy, society and the environment. Government procurement, for example, can reach upwards of 20% of annual GDP in some countries1 and is a key contributor to economic growth. Procurement decisions can have tremendous impact on the direction and scale of that development around the world. Recognizing this, many government institutions have leveraged their public procurement to advance public policy objectives, such as supporting small business development and/or minority and women-owned firms.

An important framework for understanding and organizing the sustainability policy agenda is the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). The SDGs are a widely acknowledged and increasingly important framework for communicating what we are all aiming towards for sustainability. The SDGs were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, forming a set of 17 objectives as “a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030” (UNDP, 2019). The 17 goals are supported by 169 targets and another 232 measurable Indicators for countries to measure and report progress on.

This project, undertaken in the framework of the monitoring interest group of the One Planet SPP Programme,2 explores the current literature and tools connecting the SDGs and large-scale institutional procurement. It includes references and tools that either explicitly focus on SDGs and procurement or those that implicitly connect the two areas, even if they do not use the “SDG” terminology to describe sustainability policy and strategic goals.

Sustainable procurement is often linked to policy goals, such as strengthening local economies, encouraging more sustainable patterns of consumption and production, mitigating climate change and increasing economic competitiveness. Sustainable procurement can potentially also contribute to creating markets for more sustainable goods and services, helping to build a viable market for them.

Procurers could direct suppliers to deliver more environmental, social, and economic beneficial outcomes, contributing to achieving the SDGs. In fact, we could argue that without engagement of the large-scale procurers, reaching the SDGs will be impossible, if not significantly delayed, given the out-scale influence this group has on the shape and direction of economies and markets.

SCOPE OF THE LANDSCAPE REVIEW

In this study, we explore whether the SDGs could be a useful organizing framework and guidepost for sustainable procurement programs to guide procurement reform in the direction of supporting broad-based policy goals, as captured by the SDGs. We also explore whether the SDGs provide a useful framework to measure and communicate on

1 OECD, 2017, Government at a Glance.

2 The One Planet Network Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) programme is a voluntary global multi-stakeholder

collaborative platform, that brings together and scales up existing initiatives and partnerships and facilitates new projects

and activities with the potential to accelerate the transition to sustainable consumption and production by setting the

agenda and implementing sustainable public procurement as well as monitoring progress towards SDG12.

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/sustainable-public-procurement

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/sustainable-public-procurement

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the sustainability outcomes achieved by sustainable procurement programs, and/or whether there are any tools currently available that guide procurers to understanding their outcomes vis-a-vis the SDGs.

We assume that the audience for this work is not limited to government procurement, but also could be procurement teams working in the private sector and non-profit organizations who are also engaged in sustainable procurement, sourcing and supply chain management.

As a first step in this exploration, Microsoft and the United Nations Environment Programme commissioned Industrial Economics Inc (IEc) to undertake a scoping study to answer the following research questions:

1. What types of guidance, methods, and tools are currently available that help procurement, supply chain and sourcing teams take actions that advance progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and/or being more sustainable?

2. Who are the organizations, initiatives or individuals that we might collaborate and partner with to advance the SDGs with procurement, sourcing and supply chain functions?

As written, the SDGs do not provide direct guidance to procurement professionals on what to do or how to act to advance on meeting these goals. Given the wide variety of procurement processes and needs, we further hypothesize that translation and guidance will be needed to use the SDGs to guide procurement activity, and this should ideally be supported by interactive, technology enabled tools rather than a one-size-fits-all static guidance document.

In this memo, we summarize the results of our research on the current landscape answering each of these two questions, and provide some examples of guidance, methods and tools throughout. We provide the full list of 252 references in Appendix 1.

METHODS

To search for literature and tools that connect the SDGs and procurement, we first developed a list of keywords and search terms, as shown in Tablet 1. We developed a literature tracking worksheet, with a set of fields that captured key information on each reference. Our search terms included: Sustainable Development Goals, SDG, Sustainable, Green, Procurement, Purchasing, Supply Chain, and Sourcing.

EXHIBIT 1. LIST OF KEYWORDS AND SEARCH TERMS USED IN ONLINE LITERATURE RESEARCH

KEYWORDS EXAMPLE SEARCH TERMS

Sustainable Development Goals/SDGs SDG & Procurement Sustainable SDG & Purchasing Green SDG & Supply Chain Procurement SDG & Sourcing Supply Chain Sourcing

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Between August-November of 2019, the IEc team, with the support of an intern at UNEP, conducted desktop internet research. In addition, IEc added a set of relevant calculator tools to the list that we had previously identified.

Literature was organized into a spreadsheet by tracking author, date, organization, title, weblink, and notes. The IEc team then classified each tool by type: Tool, Guide, Calculator, Report, Standard, Website, Database, Conference, Webinar, and Other. IEc also classified each reference based on its focus, noting if the reference:

• Had a sector focus, and if yes, which sector

• Had a regional or country focus, and if yes, which region or country it covered

• Explicitly focused on the SDGs

• Explicitly focused on procurement, supply chain or sourcing

• Was a tool, and/or interactive

• Provided guidance.

Once we had an overview and conceptual map of the key groups of references, we then classified all of them into each group and analyzed the results. We also noted key emergent themes that may direct future work in this area and shape a potential new project in this field, as presented in this memo.

Several important limitations to this study should be noted. We limited the research to tools and studies provided in English, with some brief overview and search for references in German and French that directly addressed SDGs and procurement. We conducted the research in the latter half of 2019, which therefore represents only a snapshot in time. We conducted the study primarily through internet published resources, and did not query the academic literature in any depth. We limited the study to only those tools that are publicly available. Therefore, we did not conduct an in-depth review of tools that contain proprietary approaches to sustainable procurement and may include some connection to the SDGs.

SUMMARY FINDINGS FROM THE LITERATURE

We identified and reviewed a total of 252 references. Of these:

• 165 were published between 2015 and 2019

• 17% were guidance, 38% were interactive tools, 16% were calculators, and 15% were reports

• 26% had a sector focus

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EXHIBIT 2. TOTAL NUMBER OF REFERENCES BY TYPE

EXHIBIT 3. NUMBER OF REFERENCES BY YEAR

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EXHIBIT 4. PERCENTAGE OF REFERENCES FOCUSED ON SDGS

EXHIBIT 5. PERCENTAGE OF REFERENCES FOCUSED ON PROCUREMENT/SUPPLY CHAIN

36% SDG Focused

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EXHIBIT 6. PERCENTAGE OF REFERENCES FOCUSED ON SECTOR

Most of the references focused on various aspects of sustainable procurement and/or provided tools to measure the potential environmental, economic or social outcomes associated with an action, such as buying eco-labelled products. We found eight references directly connecting procurement or supply chain activities with the SDGs, most of which were published in 2018 or 2019.

EXHIBIT 7. PERCENTAGE OF REFERENCES FOCUSED ON BOTH SDG AND PROCUREMENT/SUPPLY

CHAIN

For example, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), as supported by UNOPS’ 2020 The Future of Public Spending: Why the way we spend is critical to the Sustainable Development Goals, investigates the potential for government spending practices to help address a critical spending gap that countries face in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and address how social, environmental and economic

26% Sector Focused

74% Not Sector

Focused

% Sector Focused

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50%

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13%

Types of References Focused on Both SDGs and Procurement

Conference Tool Report Project/Program

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sustainability objectives can be achieved through procurement.”3 An interesting finding of this study is that “digital technologies can help to advance sustainable purchasing, whether through mediating government-vendor relationships, analysing contracts, or monitoring supply chains and identifying corruption.” UNOPS is also currently developing the “SustainABLE” tool with the aim to “provide project partners, developers and others working in the development sector with practical actions that will help achieve the SDGs” and with a primary focus on procurement.4

The other tools that directly connect the SDGs and procurement are all tools that have been updated to now showcase sustainable procurement or supply chain activities overlaying the SDGs as a framework.

A subset of references are those that guide organizations on taking action on the SDGs. Some of these have supply chain/procurement activities woven into a strategy that seeks to translate the SDGs as policy goals to actionable steps and activities for companies. For example, the SDG Compass seeks to connect business strategies with global priorities, using the “SDGs as an overarching framework to shape, steer, communicate and report their strategies, goals and activities.” Companies are encouraged to start assessing their impacts by conducting a high-level mapping of their value chain to identify areas with a high likelihood of either negative or positive impacts on the issues that the SDGs represent. This approach recognizes that the largest sustainability impacts for companies sometimes reside many tiers down into a supply chain, though falling short of providing actionable steps for procurers and supply chain or sourcing managers to take if and when they recognize these impacts and opportunities for improvement. The SDG Action Manager, a tool provided by the UN Global Compact and B Lab, helps companies to self-assess their actions towards the SDGs. The interactive platform embeds supply chain issues as a set of potential actions across all the SDGs, but doesn’t state what steps procurers or supply chain managers should take to address these issues.

A subset of the literature covered reflects the current guidance available for advancing sustainable procurement policies, activities and programs. A wide range of organizations produced such guidance, including the UNEP in the framework of the One Planet Network SPP Programme, ICLEI’s Procura+ Programme, The Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council, ISO Standard 24000 and many others. Guidance typically centers on how to establish and implement a sustainable procurement program, and what steps to take to integrate into existing procurement processes so that efforts meet legal and procedural norms, and are effective. In addition to guidance, many different tools have been developed to support the institutional procurers’ journey towards sustainability, such as catalogues of more sustainable goods, services and companies, and ratings of suppliers’ sustainability performance.

Another subset of the literature covered was a set of interactive tools that facilitate sustainable procurement such as calculators that can be used to variously measure sustainable procurement activities; for example, buying more environmentally friendly products. We identified only one such tool that directly connected the SDGs and

3 Economist Intelligence Unit, 2020, The Future of Public Spending https://unops.economist.com/digital-essay-the-future-of-

public-spending/

4 UNOPS 2019 SustainABLE, https://sustainable.unops.org

https://unops.economist.com/digital-essay-the-future-of-public-spending/


https://sustainable.unops.org/

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procurement (the Blab/UNGC’s SDG Action Manager). However, many of these tools could potentially be applied to measure environmental, social or economic outcomes connected to procurement and connect these outcomes to the SDGs.

OBSERVATIONS AND THE PATH FORWARD

Is there space for a new tool or guidance for how procurers can contribute to the SDGs?

We found few guidance documents or interactive tools that directly connect the SDGs to procurement, with a few notable exceptions. The tools that we did find were created on pre-existing platforms, such as B Lab’s self-assessment questionnaire and platform, which took many years and significant resources to develop. Other providers of tools already guiding sustainable procurement and supply chain management actions may follow suit, layering in the SDGs as a reference point. For example, tools such as supplier ratings’ programs could be adapted so that they directly showcase how suppliers are addressing various SDGs. Likewise, sustainable procurement guidance and standards could be adapted to cast policy goals in light of the SDGs.

A persistent challenge to the emerging sustainable procurement programs is how to measure and communicate the progress and actual environmental, social, and economic outcomes of program activities. How do we measure whether procurers’ sustainability related policy goals are met? A report commissioned by the UN Environment Programme and SPLC in 2016 articulated this measurement challenge, and reported on what kinds of methods and tools could potentially support outcome measurement and communication.5 This study found that while presenting outcomes of an SPP programme can help to garner support within an organization and to continuously improve programs, actually making such measurements is both difficult and costly. The authors wrote: “Progress toward effective implementation of SPP is slowed by the dearth of data, methods, and a shared framework for communicating SPP benefits. Conducting measurements, and providing communications that meet the needs of various stakeholders to SPP, can be challenging. While some existing measurement methods and benefits calculators are available, as a whole, the landscape remains fragmented and sometimes contradictory.”

As many of the references reviewed note, several barriers impede progress in measuring the sustainability impacts or outcomes of procurement. First, the sheer volume and complexity of procurement data, the number of vendors, and the multiple tiers of supply chains that span the globe mean that it is very difficult to have any visibility into upstream or downstream impacts of the goods and services bought, used, and then ultimately disposed of. Second, there are numerous different sustainability impacts and aspects that may be occurring within different regions and different time spans. Stakeholders may have different perspectives on which of these sustainability issues should be a priority, and which ones are appropriate for institutional procurers to address.

5 UNEP and SPLC, 2016,

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/sites/default/files/measuring_and_communicating_the_benefits_of_sustainable_public

_procurement_spp_baseline_review_and_development_of_a_guidance_framework.pdf

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/sites/default/files/measuring_and_communicating_the_benefits_of_sustainable_public_procurement_spp_baseline_review_and_development_of_a_guidance_framework.pdf

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/sites/default/files/measuring_and_communicating_the_benefits_of_sustainable_public_procurement_spp_baseline_review_and_development_of_a_guidance_framework.pdf

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A strategy for the Monitoring interest group of the One Planet Network SPP Programme is to pro-actively partner with some of the high quality pre-existing tools and initiatives that already have built a substantial audience in the procurement community, in order to help adapt these tools to better reflect and report the SDGs.

Partnering with existing tools and initiatives would enable the group to direct resources towards solving some of the methodological challenges of measurement and coming up with a common framework and approach, rather than directing resources towards building a complex, interactive tool and then trying to reach large numbers of procurers to use it. This approach would also allow the One Planet Network to continue to communicate and connect to procurement audiences on SDG topics, provide guidance, share best practices and build capacity in procurement teams to advance on contributing to the SDGs.

Another complementary strategy could be to investigate the opportunities by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain in order to help solve the significant measurement and data challenges faced in advancing sustainable procurement activities and measuring outcomes. This strategy would position the topic of sustainable procurement as a challenge for which forward looking technologies and innovative businesses may help to solve, and in doing so, help attract a new set of actors keen to showcase their technologies’ ability to advance the SDGs.

APPENDIX

# AuthorYear/ Last

Update Title Weblink Abstract / Summary Type of Reference Focus on SDGs

Focus on Procurement/ Supply

Chain1 1_Global Compact UN Global

Compact - How Your Company Can Advance Each of the SDGs

https://www.unglobalcompact.org/sdgs/17-global-goals

Provides initiatives and resources for each of the 17 SDGs and suggestions to guide companies and other stakeholders to action-oriented platforms and tools that support SDG implementation.

Guide y

2 2_Global Compact/KPMG

2015 SDG Industry Matrix

https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/3111

Showcases industry-specific examples and ideas for corporate action related to the SDGs. Presented in a series of publications, each matrix highlights bold pursuits and decisions made by diverse companies for each SDG.

Guide y

3 3_Global Compact/GRI/WBCSD

2015 SDG Compass https://sdgcompass.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/019104_SDG_Compass_Guide_2015

df

The SDG Compass provides guidance for companies on how they can align their strategies as well as measure and manage their contribution to the realization of the SDGs.The guide presents five steps for companies to maximize their contribution to the SDGs. Companies can apply the five steps to set or align their course, depending on where they are on the journey of ensuring that sustainability is an outcome of core business strategy.

Guide y

4 4_WRI 2019 Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas

https://www.wri.org/our-work/project/aqueduct

Aqueduct provides a comprehensive and granular database with global coverage of current and future water risk indicators, including measures of water supply, demand, stress and flood risk, among others. Aqueduct leverages the most recent science and climate models included in the IPCC AR5 to provide credible metrics that track water risks at a scale appropriate for developing sound business and investment strategies

Tool

5 5_Alliance for Water Stewardship

2019 AWS International Water Stewardship Standard

http://www.allianceforwaterstewardship.org/

The AWS International Water Stewardship Standard (AWS Standard) is an international, ISEAL-compliant, standard that defines a set of water stewardship criteria and indicators for how water should be stewarded at a site and catchment level in a way that is environmentally, socially, and economically beneficial. The Standard provides water stewards with a six-step continual improvement framework that enables sites to commit to, understand, plan, implement, evaluate and communicate water stewardship actions.

Tool

7 7_Danish Institute for Human Rights, UNICEF

2013 Children’s Rights in Impact Assessment

ps://www.unicef.org/csr/css/Children_s_Rights_in_Impact_Assessments_Web_161213.pdf

Children’s Rights in Impact Assessments’ is designed to guide companies in assessing their policies and processes as they relate to their responsibility to respect children’s rights and their commitment to support children’s rights. This tool should be used as part of ongoing assessments of human rights impacts, as outlined in the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The criteria it offers can be used to review critical areas of potential or actual impact on children’s rights, based on the Children’s Rights and Business Principles.

Guide

8 8_Aviva Investors, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Calvert Investments, EIRIS, The Institute for Human Rights and Business, VBDO

2018 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB)

https://www.corporatebenchmark.org/

The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) is the first open and public benchmark of corporate human rights performance. Grounded in international and industry-specific standards on human rights and responsible business conduct, the CHRB Methodology focuses on companies’ policies, processes, practices, as well as how they respond to serious allegations. The CHRB assessment is based on publicly available information.

Website

9 9_Conservation Biology Institute

2010 Data Basin https://databasin.org/

Data Basin is a science-based mapping and analysis platform that supports learning, research, and sustainable environmental stewardship.

Tool

Reference and Tools covering SDGs, Sustainable Procurement, and Procurement/Supply Chain/Sourcing. Research conducted August 2019-January 2020 by Industrial Economics, Inc. with support from UN interns.

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https://sdgcompass.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/019104_SDG_Compass_Guide_2015.pdf















https://databasin.org/

https://databasin.org/

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Chain10 10_WRI 2013 Weaving

Ecosystem Services into Impact Assessment

https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/weaving_ecosystem_services_into_impact_assessment.pdf

The Ecosystem Services Review for Impact Assessment (ESR for IA) provides practical instructions to environmental and social practitioners on how to incorporate ecosystem services throughout environmental and social impact assessment.

Guide

11 11_WRI 2013 Food Loss and Waste Protocol

http://www.flwprotocol.org/

The Food Loss & Waste Protocol (FLW Protocol) is a multi-stakeholder effort to develop the global accounting and reporting standard for quantifying food and associated inedible parts removed from the food supply chain (referred to for simplicity sake as ‘food loss and waste’). It will enable a wide range of entities - countries, companies and other organizations - to account for and report in a credible, practical and internationally consistent manner how much food loss and waste is created and identify where it occurs, enabling the targeting of efforts to reduce it

Standard

12 12_GEMI, CH2M, WBCSD, IPIECA

2016 GEMI Local Water Tool (LWT)

http://gemi.org/localwatertool/

The tool helps companies assess impacts, risks and opportunities, and manage water-related issues at specific sites; to provide a common and consistent “visualization platform” for internal and external communication; to provide interconnectivity between global and local water risk assessments and a uniform approach between site assessments; and to form a central repository of information to create reports for multiple water questionnaires.

Tool

13 13_San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, Calvert Group Ltd., Verite

2010 Gender Equality Principles (GEP) Self-assessment

https://sfgov.org/dosw/gep-assessment-tool

The Assessment Tool is a diagnostic tool developed to assist companies in implementing and promoting the GEP by helping companies assess how well gender equity principles are integrated into workplace practices and company operations. It allows companies to: • Establish a baseline,• Identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement,• Leverage extensive indicators and resources, and• Set concrete goals and objectives to strengthen gender-related policies, practices, and organizational culture. Progress can also be measured and compared by different divisions and over time. The Assessment Tool is for a company’s internal review only. Companies do not receive a final grade or total score.

Tool

14 14_WBCSD, WRI 2001 Greenhouse Gas Protocol

https://ghgprotocol.org/

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. A decade-long partnership between the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the GHG Protocol is working with businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.

It serves as the foundation for nearly every GHG standard and program in the world - from the International Standards Organization to The Climate Registry - as well as hundreds of GHG inventories prepared by individual companies.

The GHG Protocol also offers developing countries an internationally accepted management tool to help their businesses to compete in the global marketplace and their governments to make informed decisions about climate change.

Standard

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# AuthorYear/ Last



Chain15 15_WRI 2014 Global Forest

Watchhttps://www.globalforestwatch.org/

Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an interactive online forest monitoring and alert system designed to empower people everywhere with the information they need to better manage and conserve forest landscapes. Global Forest Watch uses cutting edge technology and science to provide the timeliest and most precise information about the status of forest landscapes worldwide, including near-real-time alerts showing suspected locations of recent tree cover loss. GFW is free and simple to use, enabling anyone to create custom maps, analyze forest trends, subscribe to alerts, or download data for their local area or the entire world. Users can also contribute to GFW by sharing data and stories from the ground via GFW’s crowdsourcing tools, blogs, and discussion groups. Special “apps” provide detailed information for companies that wish to reduce the risk of deforestation in their supply chains, users who want to monitor fires across Southeast Asia, and more. GFW serves a variety of users including governments, the private sector, NGOs, journalists, universities, and the general public.

Tool

16 16_The Consumer Goods Forum

2011 Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 2.0

https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CGF-Global-Protocol-on-Packaging.pdf

The Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability was created to provide the consumer goods and packaging industries with a much needed common language with which to discuss and assess the relative sustainability of packaging. That common language consists of a framework and a measurement system. The metrics presented in the report deliver the measurement system, which, alongside the framework, offer a standardised way to address a range of business questions about packaging sustainability, either within a company or between business partners.

Standard y

17 17_Danish Institute for Human Rights

2017 Human Rights and Business Country Guide

https://globalnaps.org/human-rights-and-business-country-guides/

The Human Rights and Business Country Guide provides country-specific guidance to help companies respect human rights and contribute to development. The Country Guide provides a systematic overview of human rights issues for particular attention by companies. For each issue, the Guide provides guidance on how to ensure respect for human rights in company operations or in collaboration with local suppliers and business partners.

Guide


2006 Human Rights Compliance Assessment

http://hrca2.humanrightsbusiness.org/docs/file/HRCA%20Quick%20Check_English.pdf

The Human Rights Compliance Assessment (HRCA) is a diagnostic tool designed to help companies detect potential human rights violations caused by the effect of their operations on employees, local residents and all other stakeholders

Tool

19 19_International Business Leaders Forum/International Finance Corporation/UN Global Compat

2010 Human Rights Impact Assessment and Management (HRIAM)

https://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/human_rights/GuidetoHRIAM.pdf

HRIAM is designed to be a practical tool that enables companies to identify, understand, and evaluate actual or potential human rights impacts of a project at each stage of development and operations. This approach links human rights assessment to existing management processes.

Tool

20 20_Initiative for Global Development

2013 Impact Measurement Framework

https://www.igdleaders.org/initiatives-term/impact-measurement/

igdIMPACT is the Initiative for Global Development’s (IGD) practical, business-oriented approach to impact measurement. Designed with direct input from businesses, sector-specific measurement frameworks help companies map potential (or realized) impacts to key business drivers and performance metrics. Sector-specific frameworks are currently available for the agribusiness, financial services, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), information and communications technology (ICT), and power sectors.

Guide

21 21_Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)

2015 Impact Reporting & Investment Standards (IRIS) - IRIS+ and the SDGs

https://iris.thegiin.org/

IRIS is the catalog of generally-accepted performance metrics that leading impact investors use to measure social, environmental, and financial success, evaluate deals, and grow the credibility of the impact investing industry. IRIS+ and the SDGs desdribes core concepts behind impact performance measurement toward the SDGs through the IRIS+ Core Metrics Sets and the IRIS Catalog of Metrics

Guide y

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https://www.globalforestwatch.org/

https://www.globalforestwatch.org/















https://iris.thegiin.org/%C2%A0

https://iris.thegiin.org/%C2%A0

# AuthorYear/ Last



Chain22 22_Pacific Institute 2016 Interactive River

Basin Databasehttp://riverbasins.wateractionhub.org/

This database provides the first-ever compilation of the world’s river basins developed specifically for corporate disclosure. It features a comprehensive list of river basins worldwide, including their names, boundaries, and other helpful information.Many companies provide location-specific information in their water reporting. However, they often don’t have a common reference point for the places they talk about. Because of this, they often refer to the same place by different names, or to different places using the same name.This database solves that problem by allowing you to Find Basins by Latitude / Longitude Points and Find Basins by Country.

Database

23 23_International Organization for Standardization

2015 ISO 14000 Series https://www.iso.org/iso-14001-environmental-management.html

The ISO 14000 family of standards provides practical tools for companies and organizations of all kinds looking to manage their environmental responsibilities.

Tool

24 24_Ecometrica 2012 Normative Biodiversity Metric (NBM)

https://ecometrica.com/assets//Update-and-Guidance-on-Ecometricas-Normative-Biodiversity-Methodology-final_kv4Feb2014.pdf

The Normative Biodiversity Metric methodology assesses the land a company owns with a measure of ecosystem pristineness combined with a measure of endangered species presence. These variables give each piece of land a score. Businesses report on changes of the biodiversity score on their owned land annually.

Guide

25 25_USAID 2011 Poverty Assessment Tools

https://www.povertytools.org/

USAID Poverty Assessment Tools (PATs) are free, easy to use tools for assessing poverty levels of any group of people. Development practitioners use PATs to assess their success at reaching out to poor and very poor people, to compare poverty levels of those who are engaged in different practice areas, or track changes in poverty level over time. Each PAT survey consists of 10-25 questions. Results can be analyzed in our custom data entry templates or within your own analysis software.

Tool

26 26_Grameen Foundation

2005 Poverty Probability Index (PPI)

https://www.povertyindex.org/

The Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®) is a poverty measurement tool for organizations and businesses with a mission to serve the poor. The PPI is statistically-sound, yet simple to use: the answers to 10 questions about a household’s characteristics and asset ownership are scored to compute the likelihood that the household is living below the poverty line – or above by only a narrow margin. With the PPI, organizations can identify the clients, customers, or employees who are most likely to be poor or vulnerable to poverty, integrating objective poverty data into their assessments and strategic decision-making

Tool

27 27_WRI/WBCSD 2016 Sustainable Procurement of Forest Products

http://sustainableforestproducts.org/

The Guide is designed to help sustainability and procurement managers make informed choices on the forest products they buy. It identifies key issues that underpin responsible procurement of wood and paper-based products, provides resources and advice that address each issue. This toolbox helps to develop and implement procurement policies that reduce risk and create transparency throughout supply chains and ultimately support sustainable forest management.

Guide y

28 28_Transparency International

2013 Business Integrity Toolkit

https://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/tools/business_integrity_toolkit/0

This checklist is based on TI's Business Principles for Countering Bribery and is designed for companies to assess their anti-corruption policy, implementation and monitoring and review mechanisms. It should be read in conjunction with Transparency International's Self-Evaluation Tool.

Tool

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http://riverbasins.wateractionhub.org/

http://riverbasins.wateractionhub.org/

https://www.iso.org/iso-14001-environmental-management.html














# AuthorYear/ Last



Chain29 29_BIER 2015 True Cost of

Water Toolkithttps://www.bieroundtable.com/work/water-stewardship/ ; https://www.bieroundtable.com/sustainable-development-goals/

BIER provides several tools and publications related to water stewardship in the beverage industry: True Cost of Water Toolkit; Performance in Watershed Context; A Practical Perspective on Managing Water-Related Business Risk and Opportunities in the Beverage Sector; A Practical Perspective on Water Accounting in the Beverage Sector; World Class Water Stewardship in the Beverage Industry: Water Efficiency and Beyond. The True Cost of Water Tool helps companies calculate the true cost of the water they use on a facility by facility basis.

Tool

30 30_OXFAM, UN Global Compact

2015 The Poverty Footprint

https://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/human_rights/PovertyFootprint.pdf

A partnership-based assessment tool that enables companies and civil society partners to understand impacts on poverty all along a companies value chain. The Poverty Footprint provides a comprehensive overview of factors that influence poverty, helps companies establish pro-poor business strategies, and promotes greater corporate transparency and meaningful stakeholder engagement.

Tool

31 31_International Organization for Standardisation

2017 ISO 20400 https://www.iso.org/standard/63026.html

ISO 20400:2017 provides guidance to organizations, independent of their activity or size, on integrating sustainability within procurement, as described in ISO 26000. It is intended for stakeholders involved in, or impacted by, procurement decisions and processes.

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32 32_UNGA 2015 WSIS - SDG Matrix

https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/sdg/

This is a new tool developed by a number of United Nations agencies based on their expertise and mandate to map how ICTs may contribute to the implementation of the new SDGs. The Matrix serves as an easy reference for stakeholders engaged in shaping the future of both, the SDGs and the WSIS processes beyond 2015 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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33 33_Blab 2019 B Impact Assessment

https://bimpactassessment.net/

A tool for businesses to assess their overall impact, with publicly available benchmarks that allow for comparison and tools to help businesses improve their impact over time

Tool

34 34_Bertelsmann Stiftung and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

2018 SDG Index and Dashboards Report 2018

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sustainabledevelopment.report/2018/2018_sdg_index_and_dashboards_report.pdf

Country Focus. The SDG Index and Dashboards Report 2018 presents a revised and updated assessment of countries’ distance to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It includes detailed SDG Dashboards to help identify implementation priorities for the SDGs. The report also provides a ranking of countries by the aggregate SDG Index of overall performance.

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35 35_PRé Sustainability

2018 Making the SDGs relevant to business

https://www.pre-sustainability.com/download/Making-the-SDGs-relevant-to-business_public-version.pdf

This short report summarises the current knowledge on the interests of companies and policymakers to link the UN Sustainability Goals (the SDGs) to business needs and explores the interest in using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a tool to support the use of SDGs.

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36 36_GRI/UN Global Compact

2017 Business Reporting on the SDGs

https://www.globalreporting.org/resourcelibrary/GRI_UNGC_Business-Reporting-on-SDGs_Analysis-of-Goals-and-Targets.pdf

Produced by GRI and UN Global Compact, with the technical assistance of PwC, this Analysis of the Goals and Targets is sometimes referred to as the SDG “bible” because of its sheer volume with 223 pages. It makes a detailed analysis of possible qualitative and quantitative indicators per SDG, at the level of the 169 targets and how they can be linked to a wide array of reporting standards, like GRI, CDP, etc.

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37 37_PWC 2015 SDG Selector https://dm.pwc.com/SDGSelector/

An online tool from PwC that filters the SDGs according to relevance per industry sector. Tool y

38 38_Future-Fit Foundation

2015 Future Fit and the SDGs

https://futurefitbusiness.org/sdgs/

A webpage that provides links between the SDG's and the 8 Future-Fit principles and 21 Future-Fit Goals. The Future-Fit Business Benchmark is a Goal-based method based on the Natural Step Framework.

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Organization for Standardization

2018 ISO 26000 and the SDGs

https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/store/en/PUB100401.pdf

In the report ISO 26000 and the SDGs13 published by the ISO 26000 Post Publication Organisation, a rough mapping is made between the SDG's and the 37 "issues of social concern" referred to in clause 6 of that standard. The supplementary publication Linkages between ISO 26000:2010 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 14 contains a 1:1 mapping.

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40 40_PWC 2016 Navigating the SDGs:a business guide to engaging withthe UN Global Goals

https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/sustainability/publications/PwC-sdg-guide.pdf

The report articulates a strong business case for SDG engagement before going on to highlight the key challenges posed by each of the 17 goals while also exploring how each goal matters for business and what business can do to contribute to its realization. It also empahsizes the interconnected nature of the SDGs, underscoring key linkages between the goals, as well as positioning a number of case studies of business engaging in meaningful action in support of specific goals.

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The Human Rights Guide to the SDGs

http://sdg.humanrights.dk/en

This guide illustrates the human rights anchorage of the 17 goals and provides concrete links between 156 of the 169 SDG targets and the existing range of human rights instruments and labor standards, underlining the fact that human rights and the SDGs are tied together in a mutually reinforcing way. Through highlighting the intersections at which these two agendas overlap, the guide provides a useful companion piece for companies looking to develop a human rights-based approach to sustainable development programming.

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42 42_Business & Sustainable Development Commission

2016 SDGs & Sectors: A review of the business opportunities

http://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-bsdc/SDG-Sectors.pdf

This report maps the Global Goals that most strongly impact industrial sectors, while identifying those that have cross-cutting or enabling relevance. The report analyses each sector with a focus on four business drivers covering innovation and market development, efficiency and cost savings, reputation management, and risk reduction. For each sector it translates relevant Goals into opportunities and risks and provides some key facts that illustrate the opportunity or risk.

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43 43_Ericsson/The Earth Institute

2016 How Information and Communications Technology canAccelerate Action on the Sustainable Development Goals

https://www.ericsson.com/assets/local/news/2016/05/ict-sdg.pdf

This report highlights the role that the ICT sector has in contributing to the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals. It identifies potential indicators that the sector could use to map its level of contribution while also providing a deep-dive analysis on the linkages between ICT and a selection of priority SDGs. This is backed up by a number of detailed case studies. The report concludes with a set of recommendations made to the industry in terms of the sort of innovation and action it should be looking to undertake to make a meaningful contribution across a spectrum of development areas.

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44 44_World Economic Forum/SDSN/UNDP/Columbia Center on Sustainable Investmetn

2016 Mapping Mining to the SDGs: An Atlas

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IP/2016/IU/Mapping_Mining_SDGs_An_Atlas.pdf

This study, which was finalized in July 2016, draws linkages between the mining industry and the SDGs. It dedicates a chapter to each of the SDGs focusing on the contribution the mining industry can make to that goal and identifying opportunities for how mining companies can collaborate with other stakeholders and leverage resources to address the goals. Each chapter also includes case studies from which to draw in building innovative, systematic and sustained collaborative efforts. The Atlas is based on desktop research and interviews with over 60 global experts from industry, civil society, governments, academia, international organizations and financial institutions. A useful resource in terms of enhancing awareness of SDG-related risks and opportunities faced by the mining sector, and a strong springboard for wider discussion

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45 45_United States Council for International Business (USCIB)

Business for 2030 http://www.businessfor2030.org/

This site showcases a wide variety of examples of business’ past and continuing contributions to sustainable development through the lens of the SDGs. Case studies are categorized according to which SDG and which individual target they contribute to, allowing for easy navigation and allowing visitors to seek inspiration for action linked to a specific theme or interest area. The site also has a geographic filter which allows users to browse solutions according to the regions on which they have impact. Companies can either use the site as a reference point for potential engagement ideas, or those companies with inspiring stories to share can also submit their own case studies.

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Institute for Sustainable Development

2019 SDG Knowledge Hub

https://sdghub.com/project/sdg-knowledge-hub/

The SDG Knowledge Hub is an online resource center for news and commentary regarding the implementation of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Managed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), it provides insight into developments at UN, government and NGO level regarding the SDGs. A useful resource for businesses that are looking to gain detailed insights into SDG developments at the policy level to inform long-term strategy setting. IISD also provides a regular newsletter compiling latest developments in this space.

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47 47_Sustainable Development Solutions Network

2015 SDG Guide https://sdg.guide/ This resource serves primarily as a preliminary guide for states and governments on how to get started with implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, it also provides a useful entry point for business with regard to understanding in detail the background behind the goals and enhancing appreciation of the sorts of issues that governments will be looking to address as they work to take action around the SDG agenda. It is particularly useful in introducing the general concepts and history behind sustainable development, and explains the evolution from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals, while discussing the importance of goal-based planning. The guide also reflects the universality of the SDG agenda by recognizing countries’ different starting points.

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48 48_World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

2016 Delivering on the SDGs: The inclusive business approach

https://www.wbcsd.org/Programs/People/Social-Impact/Resources/Delivering-on-the-SDGs-The-inclusive-business-approach

This issue brief (8 pages) highlights how inclusive business solutions can deliver both business and societal value, in full alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).It articulates the business case for targeting the base of the economic pyramid, illustrates how inclusive business solutions link up to each of the 17 SDGs, and presents an overview of common internal and external challenges faced by companies when developing and scaling these solutions. In addition, the short brief presents the WBCSD’s work in this domain and its existing partnerships with institutions.

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49 49_World Business Council for Sustainable Development

2016 Business and Human Rights: From Principles to Action

https://www.wbcsd.org/Programs/People/Social-Impact/Resources/Business-Human-Rights-From-Principles-to-Action

This issue brief sets out to succinctly highlight some of the key developments that have characterized the business and human rights landscape in the relatively short period since the UNGPs were launched, exploring areas in which business has made progress in the implementation of this agenda, and identifying enduring challenges moving forward.In doing so, it draws upon analysis of human rights reporting trends among the membership of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). It also frames the evolving business and human rights discussion in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals which have introduced a new sustainable business paradigm since their launch in September 2015.

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50 50_The International Council for Science

2017 A Guide to SDG Interactions: from Science to Implementation

https://council.science/publications/a-guide-to-sdg-interactions-from-science-to-implementation/

This paper from the International Council for Science explores in detail the nature of the interlinkages that exist between the SDGs. Focusing its analysis around SDG2, SDG3, SDG7 and SDG14, it investigates and evaluates the degree of linkage that exists between each of these goals and the other 17, ultimately pointing to high levels of inter-dependence and connectivity. The report emphasises the point that a scientific analysis of these various interactions (an approach which in currently under-utilized) has an important role to play in supporting coherent and effective decision-making with regard to the goals. Fostering an understanding of possible trade-offs as well as synergistic relations between the different SDGs, it argues, is crucial for achieving long-lasting sustainable development outcomes.

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51 51_Oxfam 2017 Raising the bar: rethinking the role of business in the Sustainable Development Goals

https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/raising-bar-rethinking-role-business-sustainable-development-goals

This paper by Oxfam acknowledges the important role that businesses can play in contributing to the delivery of the SDGs, while also cautioning business against approaching the SDGs too superficially. It provides useful insight into how business action on the SDGs is being perceived by this and other civil society stakeholders and food for thought regarding what constitutes meaningful business alignment in this space.

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the 2030 agenda for sustainable development

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_436923.pdf

This publication produced by the International Labour Organization (ILO) takes a deep dive into SDG 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth. It highlights key elements and issues that will have to be addressed if SDG 8 is to be achieved while also drawing clear links between SDG 8 and the rest of the Global Goals. A useful resource for any company looking for expert perspective on the importance of SDG 8 and the scale of the challenge in realizing it.

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53 53_UNDP, Business Call to Action, Deloitte

2017 Uncharted Waters: Blending value and values for social impact through the SDGs

https://www.businesscalltoaction.org/sites/default/files/UncharteredWatersReport_January2017_web.pdf

UNDP, Business Call to Action and Deloitte have published a paper and accompanying toolkit for business to understand why and how they can embrace a journey towards the SDGs, and why inclusive business ventures can accelerate both business growth and social impact. Key themes in the paper include: Why the SDGs should matter to business; how the pursuit of the SDGs through inclusive business can increase growth and competitiveness; how to identify the degree to which your company might be ready to start developing inclusive business opportunities; and how to start, develop, refine and optimize such inclusive venture.

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54 54_Business Fights Poverty, Mars, ABInBEv

2017 Harnessing the SDGs to Strengthen Smallholder Supply Chains: A Guide for Business

http://reportregister134.pages.ontraport.net/%20

This publication by Business Fights Poverty, produced in collaboration with Mars and ABInBev, looks to support companies that are seeking to connect their support for the SDGs with their work with smallholder producers to amplify sustainable development impact and business benefits. It explains how the SDGs link to smallholder sourcing programmes and provides suggestions on how companies can harness the SDGs in their smallholder supply chains for greater commercial and societal impact, with practical advice and examples to inform company action.

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55 55_Deloitte 2017 2030 Purpose: Good business and a better future

https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/About-Deloitte/gx-2030-purpose-report.pdf

This report by Deloitte underlines how commercial success and a commitment to sustainable development are becoming ever more interdependent, with business increasingly facing a need to explicitly connect what they do to the contribution they make to the wider world. This contribution cannot be a by-product of the business model; it needs to be a driving force that helps shape strategy – part of the company’s purpose. The report goes on to articulate the benefits of identifying a purpose that can be linked to the SDG agenda – a so called “2030 purpose”. It then explores to what degree companies are currently integrating the SDGs into their thinking around purpose and highlights various steps through which companies can identify and implement a strong 2030 purpose.

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56 56_WBSCD 2017 CEO Guide to the SDGs

https://docs.wbcsd.org/2017/03/CEO_Guide_to_the_SDGs/English.pdf

The CEO Guide to the SDGs sets out clear actions that CEOs can take to begin to align their organizations with the SDGs and plot a course towards unlocking the value they represent. It draws on the landmark research of the Business & Sustainable Development Commission which has found that achieving the SDGs could be worth at least US$12 trillion a year in market value by 2030 and create 380 million jobs in the process. Highlighting the critical role for business in realizing the SDGs, the Guide also explores the business implications of the SDGs across the spectrum of risk, opportunity, governance & transparency, and the need for collaboration.

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58 58_IPIEA, IFC, UNDP 2017 Mapping the oil & gas industry to the SDGs: An Atlas

http://www.ipieca.org/resources/awareness-briefing/mapping-the-oil-and-gas-industry-to-the-sustainable-development-goals-an-atlas/

IPIECA has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to develop a shared understanding of the implications of the SDGs for the oil and gas industry and how the industry can most effectively contribute. This “Atlas” presents the SDGs goal by goal, focusing on the contribution the oil and gas industry can make to each goal by integrating it into core business operations and by identifying opportunities for oil and gas companies to collaborate with other stakeholders and leverage experiences and resources. Each chapter also includes case studies of innovative and sustained efforts by companies, often working collaboratively. It also presents examples of good practice and resources on sustainable development that are useful for the industry

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Global Environmental Strategies

2018 SDGs Interlinkages and Data Visualization

https://sdginterlinkages.iges.jp/visualisationtool.html

This interactive and innovative resource, compiled by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, enables the exploration and visualization of linkages between different SDG targets for nine Asian countries including Japan, China, India and Republic of Korea. Users can select a particular SDG target and explore how each target interacts with those for other goals in particular geographies. It also presents time series data running from 2001 to 2014. While predominantly designed to aid governments in policy making, this tool also has useful implications for businesses that are looking to identify how their interactions with certain goals stand to impact upon the wider SDG network of goals targets. This tool also allows users to compare indicator-specific data and target-specific interlinkages among countries.

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60 60_Business & Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC)

2017 Better Business, Better World: Latin America and the Caribbean

http://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-bsdc/BSDC1017_LATAM_final3.pdf

This report is part of a series of reports, first launched in January 2017, which makes the business case for the Sustainable Development Goals: 17 objectives to eliminate poverty, improve education and health outcomes, create better jobs and tackle environmental challenges by 2030. The research shows companies pursuing strategies aligned with the SDGs could open economic opportunities across 60 “hot spots” worth more than US$12 trillion and generate up to 380 million jobs globally by 2030

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61 61_University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

2017 Towards a Sustainable Economy: The commercial imperative for business to deliver SDGs

https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/resources/publication-pdfs/towards-a-sustainable-economy

This report provides a compelling case for business to lead the shift to a sustainable economy that delivers the SDGs. It analyses key trends that are set to shape the business operating environment during the next decade and explores different 2030 scenarios in which the SDGs are either met or neglected. Ultimately it highlights a wealth of opportunities that could be unlocked by achieving the Goals. It also identifies eight key actions that businesses can take to integrate in order to drive the systemic change that is necessary to move towards the delivery of the SDGs.

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62 62_World Resources Institute

2018 Climate Watch – NDC-SDG Linkages

https://www.climatewatchdata.org/ndcs-sdg

Climate Watch is an online platform designed to empower policymakers, researchers, media and other stakeholders with the open climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change. The NDC-SDG Linkages resource brings together dozens of datasets for the first time to let users analyze and compare how Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement align with the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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63 63_UN Global Compact

2017 Blueprint for Business Leadership on the SDGs: A Principles-Based Approach

https://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/publications/Blueprint-for-Business-Leadership-on-the-SDGs.pdf

The Blueprint for SDG Leadership is a comprehensive resource that provides a framework for companies to take leading action in support of the achievement of the Global Goals. It goes through each of the SDGs in turn and highlights potential actions that business can take in order to advance the realization of the goal in question. In doing so it also draws upon instances of best practice and also invites companies to consider to what degree their actions satisfy the five leadership qualities of ambition, collaboration, accountability, consistency, and intentionality.

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64 64_Moving forward with SDGs: Metrics for Action

2017Moving forward with SDGs: Metrics for Action

https://us.spindices.com/documents/education/education-moving-forward-with-sdgs-metrics-for-action.pdf

In this short paper ‘Moving forward with SDGs: Metrics for Action’, S&P Global outlines a best practice criteria for SDG action, including: total value creation, material, quantifiable outcomes, measurable against targets, market context and value chain.The paper argues that applying an SDG lens to the evaluation of business investments can provide a broader perspective on potential business and social value. Business investments often provide additional value beyond simply a financial return. Using the SDG lens, companies can start to articulate to market participants how their investments are providing additional value, including positive impacts on the SDGs.

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65 65_Corporate Citizenship

2017 Accelerating Corporate Leadership on the Global Goals

https://corporate-citizenship.com/wp-content/uploads/Accelerating-Progress-on-SDGs-2017.pdf

Since 2015, Corporate Citizenship has been sharing insights on the SDGs and their implications for business. Now in its third year, this annual practitioner study shows some alarming trends in how action on the Global Goals is evolving. TAME framework outlines how business can contribute to the Global Goals.

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Chain67 67_Silicon Valley

Community Foundation (SVCF)

2017 The UN SDGs: A Why, When and How Guide for Business

https://interactivepdf.uniflip.com/2/88537/1089511/pub/document.pdf

This report, published by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF), is based on the premise that since the SDGs are relatively new, many business leaders are still trying to figure out what the SDGs mean for their companies. The publication aims to increase discussions among businesses about the SDGs and help companies implement plans that contribute to the SDGs. The report details why the SDGs matter to the private sector, and how both startups and large companies can get involved with the 2030 agenda. The report recommends that companies: define priorities; seek feedback and input from a range of stakeholders about the SDGs; turn priorities into actionable and time-bound goals aligned with the SDGs; incorporate the SDGs into non-financial reporting using an analysis from the UN Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative; and build on partnerships, unify sectors and engage employees to further goals, and craft corporate social responsibility programs.

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68 68_WBCSD/ERM 2018 SDG Sector Roadmap Guidelines

https://docs.wbcsd.org/2018/04/SDG_roadmap%20Guidelines.pdf

These guidelines provide a structured framework and approach that companies can follow as they embark upon SDG road-mapping for their sector.This framework leads companies through a process of establishing their sector’s current level of interaction with the SDGs throughout the value chain; identifying the sector’s most significant opportunities for impact; and establishing key action items and monitoring systems in order to chart a course towards the sector’s 2030 vision.

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69 69_The Danish Institute for Human Rights & the Universal Rights Group

2017 Human Rights and the SDGs: Pursuing Synergies

https://www.universal-rights.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/RAPPORT_2017_HUMAN-RIGHTS-SDGS-PURSUING-SYNERGIES_03_12_2017_digital_use-2.pdf

This report by the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Universal Rights Group provides a summary of an open-ended meeting held on June 29, 2017 in Satigny, Switzerland, which considered how to leverage the interdependent and mutually reinforcing nature of human rights and sustainable development. Demonstrating that 90% of the SDG targets are embedded in human rights treaties, the report ‘unpacks’ the issues related to the convergence of human rights and the SDGs agendas, in order to contribute to the realization of both agendas in a integrated and mutually reinforcing manner.

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70 70_SDSN, Bertelsmann Stiftung

2019 Sustainable Development Report 2019

https://www.sdgindex.org/

The Sustainable Development Report 2019 presents an updated SDG Index and Dashboards for all 193 UN member states with a refined assessment of countries’ distance to SDG targets. It frames the implementation of the SDGs in terms of six broad transformations. The transformations address major synergies and trade-offs across the interventions required to achieve the goals. Above all, they are aligned with ways in which governments and businesses are organized.

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71 71_The Danish Institute for Human Rights

2019 Responsible business conduct as a cornerstone of the 2030 Agenda – a look at the implications

https://www.humanrights.dk/sites/humanrights.dk/files/media/dokumenter/udgivelser/hrb_2019/responsible_business_conduct_as_a_cornerstone_of_the_2030_agenda_dihr_2019.pdf

This discussion paper aims to provide practitioners working with business, human rights and/ or sustainable development with an overview of the connections between human rights, responsible business conduct and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda). It looks at the opportunities that an integrated approach brings for the realisation of human rights and sustainable development and the possible implications of an integrated approach in practice.

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72 72_Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan

2018 The Guide for SDG Business Management

https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2019/pdf/0531_001a.pdf

This guide compiles the results of discussions held during several meetings of the SDG Management / ESG Investment Study Group, established by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in November 2018. It outlines approaches companies can apply to successfully incorporate SDGs into their management, as well as perspectives investors may take in assessing such business initiatives.

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Chain73 73_KPMG and

Textile Exchange2018 Threading the

Needle: Weaving the Sustainable Development Goals into the Textile, Retail and Apparel Industry

https://textileexchange.org/threading-the-needle-weaving-sdgs-in-the-textile-retail-and-apparel-industry/

The report offers SDG guidance to apparel, retail and textile suppliers, brands and retailers on business considerations and opportunities for shared value, an SDG engagement model, best practices and multi-stakeholder initiatives, and considerations for top sourcing countries. The proposed “SDG engagement framework” focuses on eight SDGs where the industry can have the most direct impact. The report provides representative case studies in which the SDGs are being implemented by companies. These examples are intended to demonstrate the first steps that companies can take to integrate the SDGs into their core business and value chain.

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74 74_Grupo de Acción de Responsabilidad Social (RSE) en empresas públicas and Forética

2019 Practical guide for the contribution of public companies to the 2030 Agenda

https://www.foretica.org/guia_practica_contribucion_empresas_publicas_ods_foretica.pdf

This Spanish language resource serves as a guide to advance in the integration of the SDGs into strategic decisions making of public companies. It aims to provide a self-diagnostic tool to analyze how companies are promoting their responsible management and define what future priorities should be to ensure Spain’s compliance with the SDGs.It includes six key steps:Step 1: Establishment of a commitmentStep 2: Materiality analysis and identification of the relevant SDGsStep 3: Development of objectives of contribution to the SDGs and indicators for measurementStep 4: Internal training and awarenessStep 5: Internal follow-up of the contribution to the SDGsStep 6: Reporting and external communication

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75 75_International Chamber of Commerce

2015 Business Charter for Sustainable Development

https://cdn.iccwbo.org/content/uploads/sites/3/2015/09/ICC-Business-Charter-for-Sustainable-Development-Business-contributions-to-the-UN-Sustainable-Development-Goals.pdf

Based on existing positions and on content drawn from, inter alia, the Green Economy Roadmap and the Business Charter for Sustainable Development, this document aims to link ICC’s work to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and to serve thereby as business input document into the “UN SDGs Summit”.

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76 76_GRI/UN Global Compact

2018 Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting

https://www.globalreporting.org/resourcelibrary/GRI_UNGC_Reporting-on-SDGs_Practical_Guide.pdf

This Practical Guide outlines a three-step process to embed the SDGs in existing business and reporting processes.Step 1 addresses the process of prioritization of impacts and the identification of SDGs for a company to act and report on. Step 2 looks at how to set business objectives, select disclosures and analyze performance. Step 3 offers tips and guidance on reporting and improving SDG performance.

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77 77_Business for Social Responsibility United Nations Global Compact

2015 Supply Chain Sustainability: A Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement, Second Edition

https://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/supply_chain/SupplyChainRep_spread.pdf

Illustrates how companies can implement the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact throughout their supply chains and integrate sustainability into procurement strategies. In 2015, the guide was revised to ensure the inclusion of and alignment with relevant standards and initiatives, and also to reflect current and emerging trends within this area. It includes several updated and new company example

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2018 Decent Work in Global Supply Chains — A Baseline Report

https://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/publications/Decent-Work-in-Global-Supply-Chains_UN-Global-Compact.pdf

Summarizes data of bilateral interviews with supply chain, procurement, and sustainability executives of companies that participate in the UN Global Compact Action Platform on Decent Work in Global Supply Chains. The report presents insights into some of the key challenges and opportunities that companies face in their efforts to develop more sustainable procurement strategies. It also offers practical examples of steps taken to combat pressing human rights issues in supply chains, such as modern slavery, child labour and non-compliance with employment standards, and references relevant initiatives and resources for further guidance on these issues.

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Chain79 79_UN Global

Compact2007 Unchaining Value

– Innovative Approaches to Sustainable Supply


This report explores how supply chains function in order to identify new approaches to building sustainability capacity at the local supplier level, as well as identifying initiatives that will encourage and enable consumer demand for more sustainable solutions.

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80 80_Business for Social Responsibility

2010 New Models for Sustainable Procurement

https://www.bsr.org/reports/BSR_New_Models_For_Sustainable_Procurement.pdf

This paper explores recent developments and best practices in supply chain transparency, supplier engagement, and responses to shifts in trade and globalization.

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2015 Support your SME Supplier

https://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/supply_chain/SMEsinSupplyChain.pdf

Calls companies to take action and provides guidance on how companies can support their SME suppliers to incorporate sustainability into their strategies and operations. It offers good practices, the business case for action and further resources that may be of assistance to companies in this endeavour.

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82 82_Global Environmental Management Initiative

2015 Pilot GEMI Supply Chain Sustainability (SCS) Tool

http://gemi.climateearth.com/pages/welcome

This tool is designed as a guide to help support and assist with strategic sourcing and procurement by providing a tool to help provide visibility into supply chain sustainability. The SCS Tool is a browser-based tool supporting the user by allowing them to enter individual purchase categories or a purchase portfolio, estimate over all CO2e and water impacts and then select alternative strategic purchasing scenarios for each of the three featured categories. The tool estimates results of each scenario or combination of scenarios to provide visibility and help companies engage and focus on their supply chains to design more sustainable strategies"

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86 86_UrbanWINS and ICLEI Europe

2017 How can urban metabolism lead to a circular economy and a more sustainable future for cities?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD2BCsZX6Xc

UrbanWINS seeks to develop and test methods for designing and implementing eco-innovative strategic plans for waste prevention and management. In-depth analysis of urban waste management in 24 European cities. Support setup of SDG plan for Gothenburg. How can urban metabolism push circular economy? Toolbox to map urban metabolism = Toolbox for Circle Regions (helps to generate projects).

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87 87_Ecovadis Sustainable Procurement Diagnostic

https://www2.ecovadis.com/sustainable-procurement-diagnostic#signup

Quick self-assessment & learning tool; benchmark your maturity in those areas: Vision and Strategy, Sustainable Procurement Policies, Organization and Resources, Tools and Procurement Integration, Supplier Engagement and Capacity Building, Reporting Transparency.

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88 88_UrbanWINS and ICLEI Europe

2017 How can cities tackle food waste?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_wxFAffl1U

Presents some of the initiatives being implemented to minimise food waste. To achieve SDG 12.3: By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses. Reduce GHG emissions (food waste = 8% of GHG emissions); lower costs; feed people; how to create a food waste strategy?

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89 89_GLCN 2018 Sustainable Procurement Profiles

http://glcn-on-sp.org/about/publications

This website is providing information on the Sustainable Procurement Profiles of 12 of the participating cities. In the reports you’ll find the procurement approach in every city, their sustainable procurement strategy, what they actually purchase sustainably (transport, energy & buildings, waste, city stock items, etc.), how they purchase it and what the challenges are for the future. Moreover, you find the Annual Activity Report 2016.

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Chain95 95_Maplecroft 2018 Tools for building

ethical and sustainable supply chains

https://www.maplecroft.com/insights/podcasts/tools-for-building-ethical-and-sustainable-supply-chains/

Manage supply chain risk factors in regard to sustainability. The podcast explores the exploding sophistication in the ability to gain insights into supply chain risks. The panel examines new tools and methods that can be combined to ease the assessment and remediation of hundreds of supply chain risks – from use of illegal and unethical labour practices to hidden environmental risks.

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97 97_BuyZET 2019 Procuring zero emission delivery of goods and services

http://www.buyzet.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/POLIS_BUYZET-Handbook_EN_web.pdf

This guide is designed to assist city administrations to use their public procurement activities strategically to help: Reduce traffic in urban areas, and & promote the use of zero emission vehicles in urban logistics.

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98 98_OsloRegion 2019 Zero Is The New Hero: Big Buyers Joining Forces To Achieve Zero Emission Construction Sites

http://osloregion.org/events/zero-is-the-new-hero-big-buyers-joining-forces-to-achieve-zero-emission-construction-sites/

Oslo’s green governance has led to significant reductions of CO2 emissions and a key factor for the city's ability to do so is a strategic and deliberate approach to green innovative procurements. Oslo has created a market by having several public builders unite to much more rapidly achieve zero-emission construction vehicles in Norway. This session will discuss how cities can create sustainable markets and solutions through green innovations and a more strategic approach to procurement.

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100 100_Refresh 2019 FORKLIFT - Valorisation spreadsheet tools

https://eu-refresh.org/sites/default/files/D6.10%20REFRESH%20_FORKLIFT_Annexes%20.pdf

FORKLIFT is a spreadsheet learning tool that indicates life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and costs for using selected food side flows allowing users to indicate life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and costs. It allows users to interpret the results regarding the effects of intervention with the additional effect of making it possible to compare the results with alternative products available on the market. The aim of FORKLIFT is to provide a tool for policy makers, researchers, professionals, businesses and other interested parties that are interested in accessible life cycle thinking of using food side streams without doing a detailed Lifecycle Assessment (LCA).

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101 101_Refresh 2018 FoodWaste EXplorer

https://ws.eurofir.org/foodwasteexplorer/

FoodWasteEXplorer is a tool for those exploring how food waste might be better used, e.g. citrus peel limonene can be used to make medical plastic. Potentially, a fruit juice producer could use FoodWasteEXplorer to identify this and start the process towards alternative uses. FoodWasteEXplorer is free-of-charge for researchers, government agencies and industry including SMEs, and the general public. Filters can be applied to retrieve selected subsets of data, such as side stream (e.g. peel, stalks, seeds) and component groups (e.g. vitamins, minerals), and search results can be exported for further offline analysis.

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104 104_Sustainable Purchasing leadership Council

2019 Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council Summit 2019, SDG Session

https://www.sustainablepurchasing.org/summit19/

Several plenary discussions about the topics SDGs and sustainable procurement, for example: Transforming the sustainability of local economies and global supply chains requires a lot of coordination and innovation by many stakeholders. Today, global frameworks are increasingly enabling organizations to align their sustainability transformation efforts with deep system-change. One such framework is the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Javette Hines, Citi’s Director, Head of Supply Chain Development, Inclusion and Sustainability, will discuss the ways in which alignment with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals helps bring Citi’s sustainable procurement and supplier diversity efforts into focus and enable clear, consistent movement toward desirable long term outcomes.

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Chain105 105_Gaia 2019 Pathways to

urban sustainability: How science can contribute to sustainable development in cities

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/oekom/gaia/2019/00000028/00000002/art00010#

Pressing sustainability challenges reinvigorate calls for scientific actors to strengthen their profile as change agents. Focusing on the urban context, we point to four forms of science-policy-society interactions as key pathways to advance the sustainability transformation in cities.Recent years have seen a considerable broadening of the ambitions in urban sustainability policy-making. With its Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)11 Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, the 2030 Agenda stresses the critical role of cities in achieving sustainable development. In the context of SDG17 on partnerships, emphasis is also placed on the role of researchers and other scientific actors as change agents in the sustainability transformation. Against this backdrop, this article sheds light on different pathways through which science can contribute to urban sustainability. In particular, we discern four forms of science-policy-society interactions as key vectors: 1. sharing knowledge and providing scientific input to urban sustainability policy-making; 2. implementing transformative research projects; 3. contributing to local capacity building; and 4. self-governing towards sustainability. The pathways of influence are illustrated with empirical examples, and their interlinkages and limitations are discussed. We contend that there are numerous opportunities for actors from the field of sustainability science to engage with political and societal actors to enhance sustainable development at the local level.

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106 106_The Sustainability Consortium & Supply Shift

2019 The Sustainability Insight System (THESIS Index)

https://www.supplyshift.net/thesis/

The THESIS Index helps retailers and suppliers manage the transparency and sustainability of all the products they make and sell. It includes key performance indicators for over 120 different consumer goods categories, which help business decision-makers focus on the issues that matter and the suppliers that matter. The THESIS Index puts sustainability at the heart of procurement conversations, helping companies capture the rewards from improved resource efficiency, lower supply chain risks and new markets for sustainable products.

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108 108_Climate Earth Sustainable Supply Chain Management

https://www.climateearth.com/supply-chain-solutions/supply-chain-footprint/#toggle-id-3

This tool helps businesses to understand and track their supply chains in order to make changes and achieve a more sustainable approach: 1) Provides an environmental life cycle assessment of your whole upstream supply chain including every purchase category and can include every supplier. 2) Dashboards and data visualizations facilitate rapid analysis of your whole supply chain. 3) Impacts are reported by a variety of dimensions, such as by department, by region, by purchase category, and by supplier. 4) Cost effectively update your customized database on a regular basis for reporting and tracking improvements. 5) Engage suppliers with an automated supplier data collection system. --> Offers an addiotional feature: Deep Dive is built for companies that need a full environmental supply chain analysis that includes environmental impacts by tier and country. Deep Dive allows users to know what commodities and impacts are critical so they can focus their strategy on targeting the right impact in the right tier and country.

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109 109_Supply Shift Supply Shift https://www.supplyshift.net/get-started/

To find out where the supply chain's issues are, in order to set goals to minimise negative impacts on society/environment. SupplyShift provides a cloud-based platform to seamlessly gather intelligence about partners and put it to work to strengthen the business. It focuses on 6 core values: responsible sourcing, risk assessment, traceability, certification and audit management, compliance & non-financial assessment.

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110 110_B Corporation 2019 B Lab B Impact Assessment Tool

https://bcorporation.net/news/b-lab-partners-united-nations-global-compact-develop-online-platform-sdg-focused-impact

B Impact Assessment to allow companies around the globe to manage their impact through performance on the SDGs.

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https://www.supplyshift.net/get-started/

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Chain113 113_TheGlobalSDG

Awards2019 The Global SDG

Awardshttps://globalsdgawards.com/

The Global SDG Awards was created to act as a catalyst for positive change. By turning sustainability into a competitive race to the top, we hope to increase the rate of SDG adoption, foster the inclusion of new reporting metrics based on SDG indicators and create a platform to recognize outstanding corporate efforts. The Global SDG Awards are evaluated by teams of expert judges working from the private sector. Our esteemed panel of 65+ judges is currently represented by experts from 17 different countries. We are strong proponents of diversity and inclusion, and recognize the value that multiple viewpoints and perspectives bring to an organization. As such, we strongly encourage nominations from sustainability leaders and social entrepreneurs in South America, the Middle-East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region.

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114 114_2degrees 2017 2degrees https://www.2degreesnetwork.com/

2degrees works with its clients to drive progress against the UN Sustainable Development Goals, helping them to cut costs, risks and environmental impacts from their operations, buildings and supply chains. Our digital platforms use the scalability of technology and digital tools to solve complex problems collectively. 2degrees offers a network of forums to discuss sustainable products, and a marketplace for sustainability service/product providers and seekers. Our intelligence comes from the crowd, which is continually evolving from practitioners on the ground across industries and sectors. This is unique to 2degrees and proven to deliver measurable results for our clients.

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115 115_Autocase 2019 Autocase https://autocase.com/

You know that sustainable designs deliver more value, but can you quantify just how much and for whom? With Autocase, you can automatically cost-justify smarter building and infrastructure designs for your clients, investors, or the neighboring community. Using economic analysis, Autocase combines project specifications with industry-validated data to measure the value of net financial, social and environmental impacts affecting all stakeholders. For buildings: Understand the long-term financial, social, and environmental impacts from capital investments to prioritize projects, shape design, and engage stakeholders around value drivers such as improved health and productivity of occupants, energy savings and renewable generation, water conservation, passenger experience, and broader community co-benefits. For sites: Provide cost-effective, sustainable, and resilient stormwater management, watershed/sewershed, and land planning solutions for your project or client by incorporating social, environmental, and financial value into the design and stakeholder outreach process.

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116 116_GeSi 2017 Better World GeSI Programme

https://gesi.org/tool/detail/better-world-programme

The +Better World GeSI Programme, supported by the Sustainable Development Platform (SDP), was developed to support companies to drive value through good sustainability management. It assists companies to improve their performance and to generate bottom line business benefits for themselves and their suppliers through the implementation of best in class sustainability practice. The programme enables organisations to respond quickly and effectively to issues such as climate change, energy efficiency, e-waste management, resource efficiency, circular economy, eco-design, responsible supply chain practices and human rights. The +Better World Programme is aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Progress is quantified and fed-back to sponsoring brands. The +Better World Programme enables a transparent and measured management approach, ensures progress across the broad range of sustainability risks and opportunities and allows good and transparent reporting in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

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118 118_BuildingGreen 2019 BuildingGreen https://www.buildinggreen.com/about

BuildingGreen helps architects, designers and other sustainability professionals make their projects greener and healthier. Our focus is on helping you design and build from a whole-systems perspective. We support teams that use an integrative process that reduces ecological impact—or even provides regenerative support for ecosystems—and that maximizes return on investment, both financially and in benefits to occupants.

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120 120_CDP 2019 CDP Supply Chain Tool

https://www.cdp.net/en/supply-chain

Our supply chain program works with over 100 purchasing organizations and more than 10,000 suppliers to identify and manage climate change, deforestation and water-related risks. CDP works by: 1. gathering environmental performance data from companies, cities, states, and regions; 2. transforming that data into detailed analysis on environmental risks, opportunities, and impacts; 3. allowing investors, businesses, and policymakers to use data to make better decisions.

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https://globalsdgawards.com/

https://globalsdgawards.com/

https://www.2degreesnetwork.com/

https://www.2degreesnetwork.com/

https://autocase.com/

https://autocase.com/




https://www.buildinggreen.com/about

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Chain122 122_The David

Brower CenterClimateEarth https://www.climate

earth.com/Climate Earth combines the art of big data analytics with the science of life cycle assessment, creating cost effective solutions to help you manage environmental impacts throughout your company’s product portfolio and supply chain. Climate Earth offers Environmental Product Decalarations (Instant on-demand EPDs, Smartphone instant on-demand EPDs, EPD Standard) and Supply Chain Solutions (Sustainable Supply Chain assessment, climate change risk management assessment, natural capital measurement/management system for supply chain).

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123 123_ConnXus 2010 ConnXus https://connxus.com/

ConnXus powers sustainable global supply chains through a suite of software solutions designed to give procurement professionals, diverse suppliers, and small businesses the tools they need to innovate, source, track, and connect. Giving procurement professionals everything they need in one place. ConnXus unifies all your procurement functions of supplier risk, sustainable sourcing, supplier relationship management, supplier diversity and supplier development.

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124 124_CSR Hub 1996 CSR Hub https://www.csrhub.com/

CSRHub is the world's largest sustainability business intelligence database. Our ratings and tools help professionals benchmark, evaluate, and improve company sustainability performance. CSRHub rates 12 indicators of employee, environment, community and governance performance and flags many special issues. CSR Hub contains ratings and rankings of 18,019 companies from 133 countries, driven by 556 CSR/ESG data sources.

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126 126_EcoChain Technologies BV

2012 EcoChain https://www.ecochain.com/en/home

Environmental management software: The software starts when you enter the amount of energy and materials in use and divide them across the company, the processes and, finally, across the products and materials. Once you have entered the data, EcoChain calculates the environmental impact at every level. It shows you the environmental impact of the value chain, the company, the processes, and the products. EcoChain shows you exactly how and where the environmental impact arises. You gain detailed insights into the environmental impact generated by suppliers, transportation, energy, and your own operational processes. EcoChain allows every company to create a Life Cycle Analysis of their product portfolio.

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127 127_Ecodesk 2019 Ecodesk https://www.ecodesk.com/

Ecodesk's software helps businesses improve and simplify the reporting of their supply chain's sustainability performance. Steps include scoping (establishing goals and data collection strategy), data collection and reporting (using Ecodesk's cloud-based platform), analysis and actions. The Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi) was developed by Carbon Disclosure Project, UN Global Compact, World Resources Institute and the WWF. Its goal is to help organisations set ambitious and meaningful GHG reduction targets. As well as being good for the planet, it also makes perfect business sense. Companies that set science-based targets help to build long-term business value and safeguard their future profitability in four important ways; Drive innovation. Save money. Increase competitiveness. Build credibility and influence evolving public policy.

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128 128_Ecomedes 2014 Ecomedes https://www.ecomedes.com/

Ecomedes has built the largest (and still growing) collection of sustainable high-performance products. Containing over 500,000 products across 250 categories, with 10,000 brands we provide the required product documentation and certifications for project submittal. Ecomedes automates compliance and contribution analysis for Federal Green Procurement standards, LEED, The Living Building Challenge and the WELL Rating System. Ecomedes also provides total cost of ownership and return on investment.

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129 129_EcoVadis 2011 EcoVadis http://www.ecovadis.com/

EcoVadis brings Buyers and Suppliers together to efficiently drive CSR & sustainability performance across 180 sectors and 150 countries. EcoVadis offers a CSR analysis scoring system, covering 21 criteria across four themes of environment, fair labor practices, ethics/fair business practices, and supply chain. This methodology is applied in synchronization with the other components of the EcoVadis process to deliver reliable results and a great experience, including account management, supplier onboarding, training, consulting, integration and custom IT services, and partnership.

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https://www.climateearth.com/

https://www.climateearth.com/

https://connxus.com/

https://connxus.com/

https://www.csrhub.com/

https://www.csrhub.com/

https://www.ecodesk.com/

https://www.ecodesk.com/

https://www.ecomedes.com/

https://www.ecomedes.com/

http://www.ecovadis.com/

http://www.ecovadis.com/

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Chain130 130_Ekobai

HoldingsEkobai B2B Directory

http://www.ekobai.com/

Find certified products and companies at ekobai.com: B2B directory of Fairtrade, FSC and other certified products and organisations. 1) for suppliers: - A free way to promote your company and products to thousands of global buyers.- Be part of our exclusive club of leading suppliers with sustainability certifications.- A free, secure internal mailing system so buyers can contact you directly. 2) For buyers: - search for, selected and contact qualified, certified suppliers in minutes! Over 75,000 listed companies from 50 countries. - Need confidentiality? Use our customized sourcing, saves you time and money! - Let us help you with practical sustainable procurement action plan.

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131 131_Wolters Kluwer 2000 Enablon http://enablon.com/company

This software company provides products for companies to manage their environmental and social performance. Tool

132 132_GeSi E-TASC (Electronics-Tool for Accountable Supply Chains)

http://gesi.org/platforms/e-tasc-12

E-TASC (Electronics-Tool for Accountable Supply Chains) is both a community and a technology and is the ICT industry standard solution for improving the environmental and social practices within the supply chain. The solution was created for ICT (Information and Communication Technology) companies to effectively implement a common approach for assessing and monitoring suppliers Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices as a means to identify supply chain risk and drive performance.

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134 134_FFC 2004 Fair Factories Clearinghouse (FCC)

http://www.fairfactories.org/Home/Our-Vision-Mission

Our mission is to facilitate informed ethical business decisions for a better and more livable world. We build scalable software that facilitates continuous improvements in social, environmental and security issues. This results in safer, more humane working conditions for workers in consumer goods production supply chains. The configurability of the FFC software adapts to each client's unique needs allowing them to execute their own CSR approach. Our software enhances the capacity of business to conduct ethical sourcing more efficiently. We promote collaboration among companies to improve workplace conditions.Corporate compliance is becoming more complex as the public and governments increasingly demand that companies monitor and manage their entire supply chain to ensure adherence to social, environmental, security, and safety requirements for products they manufacture and source globally. The FFC helps companies and business organizations stay ahead of this trend by providing collaborative, flexible, and cost-effective technology, training tools, and solutions for efficient and effective management of supply-chain compliance.

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135 135_Fair Labor Association

2012 Fair Labor Association Safeguards

http://www.fairlabor.org/transparency/safeguards

FLA's Sustainable Compliance methodology (SCI) advances workers’ rights by effecting progressive and sustained improvements in employment practices and working conditions. SCI is designed to move the field of social compliance beyond policing and band-aid fixes. We have found that the conventional framework for conducting audits is useful for remedying immediate problems in the workplace and has, over time, succeeded in protecting workers from the most egregious violations of labor rights. However, conventional audits do little to prevent recurring violations or drive sustainable and progressive improvements in working conditions. This system of assessment helps improve workers' lives by gauging usual and normal working conditions rather than a snapshot on a particular day; and uncovering root causes of problems and providing systemic, sustainable solutions so that problems are fixed in a lasting way.

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138 138_GeSi 2013 GESI Cloud Impact

http://www.gesicloudimpact.org/

This tool allows everyone for the first time dynamically to explore the energy savings, cost savings and GHG abatement potential of moving from on-site computing to cloud computing, across 11 different countries. The new tool features three distinct levels of detail aimed at providing a user experience from the quick, simple and powerful infographic results view, to the in-depth equations and data view showing how the outcomes are calculated.

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139 139_HKS 2019 GIGA Mindful Materials

http://www.mindfulmaterials.com/

Mindful MATERIALS is an initiative developed within the design industry to provide a common way for manufacturers to clearly communicate transparency and optimization information for their building products. Through mindful MATERIALS, manufacturers enter product information directly into an online database, indicating which disclosure documents and certifications apply to each product. This database, managed by GIGA, gives designers a single place to search for product information. In parallel, the database corresponds to a labeling system that is physically represented in design resource libraries, placing this material attribute information at designers’ fingertips.

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Chain140 140_SustainIt. 2019 Go Market Wise http://www.go

marketwise.comGoMarketWise is a sustainability matchmaking service, which compares business' requirements against the software vendors in the market.

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142 142_GoodGuide 2008 Good Guide https://www.goodguide.com/about#/

Through a variety of sources, GoodGuide collects data on chemical ingredients used in consumer products. We aggregate product information and convert that into ratings that can be used by non-scientists to easily evaluate products. A program that helps clients design, build, and evaluate their ethics and compliance programs. GoodGuide provides consumers with product information to help guide more informed buying decisions. We believe educated consumers make better choices and will help drive the development of safer, healthier, and more sustainable products. Our team comprises over 50 scientific and regulatory professionals with deep expertise in chemicals and chemical-containing products. The team includes: chemists, toxicologists, lifecycle assessment and regulatory experts.GoodGuide uses product ingredient information coupled with authoritative sources for chemical regulations to rate products so that consumers can have instant access to credible product information that is easily understood. GoodGuide collects product ingredient information through publicly available data (found on ingredient labels and websites) or directly from the manufacturer. Each product page will indicate the source of the product information.The GoodGuide website and mobile app are used daily to help consumers decode product labels, research ingredients, and make informed product-purchasing decisions. With GoodGuide, you can:- Understand the source for how product information was collected (publicly available or manufacturer disclosed) and become educated on the efforts manufacturers are making to be more transparent to the public about how they are making their products.- Use our ratings to quickly compare products on the market within a given product type or usage (example: shampoos).- Find out whether a product contains ingredients with identified health hazards.- Rely on our science expertise to interpret complex information about potential hazards of different chemicals.- Get advice while shopping by using the GoodGuide iOS App, Product Scanner for Android, or the mobile website.

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143 143_GoodCorporation Ltd

2000 GoodCorporation http://goodcorporation.com/

GoodCorporation helps organisations to design, build and embed ethics and compliance programmes. We evaluate and benchmark these programmes for regulators, businesses and external advisers. Today’s businesses operate in a global, interconnected market place with increasing transparency and ever-rising expectations of behaviour. A company’s approach to ethical issues such as bribery and corruption, labour standards, environmental impact, health and safety can make or break reputations.

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145 145_GreenPagesDirectory

2014 Greenpages Directory

http://greenpagesdirectory.net/home

We are North America's fastest growing online search directory for sustainable purchasing and healthier living.We make relevant information more easily accessible to improve your purchasing decisions. We connect people seeking healthy options with companies offering innovative products and services, along with the most current information in the field of sustainability. GreenPages Directory filters and categorizes information related to sustainability and provides a forum for exchanging information and ideas.We make it possible for companies to communicate their environmental and social commitments, geographic location, certifications, standards, charitable activities and quantifiable benefits by selecting from a variety of search parameters on an intuitive, user-friendly interface they can easily manage and modify. Users can then refine their searches based on these criteria.Companies who join our directory can advertise through us online by choosing from a variety of advertising options, as well as showcase their products and services, giving small and large companies equal access to interested consumers.

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http://www.gomarketwise.com/

http://www.gomarketwise.com/

https://www.goodguide.com/about#/

https://www.goodguide.com/about#/

http://goodcorporation.com/

http://goodcorporation.com/



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Chain146 146_HPD 2019 Health Product

Declarationshttps://www.hpd-collaborative.org/

The HPD Open Standard is a standard specification – composed of a format and instructions – for the accurate, reliable and consistent reporting of product contents and associated health information, for products used in the built environment. The HPD Open Standard specification is harmonized with programs of International Living Future Institute, Cradle-to-Cradle Product Innovation Institute, Clean Production Action, BIFMA, LEED, WELL and a growing number of rating and certification standards in the building industry.

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147 147_GeSi 2017 ICT Assessment Methodology

https://gesi.org/tool/detail/evaluating-the-carbon-reducing-impacts-of-ict-an-assessment-worksheet

The ICT Assessment Methodology is a tool developed to provide immediate guidance on the process of identifying and quantifying the carbon-reducing effects of implementing an ICT solution.

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148 148_ISO 2010 ISO 26000 http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/iso26000.htm

ISO 26000 provides guidance on how businesses and organizations can operate in a socially responsible way. This means acting in an ethical and transparent way that contributes to the health and welfare of society.

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149 149_Humanity United

2019 Know the chain https://www.knowthechain.org/resources/

KnowTheChain is a resource for companies and investors to understand and address forced labor risks within their global supply chains. Through benchmarking current corporate practices and providing practical resources that enable companies to operate more transparently and responsibly, KnowTheChain drives corporate action while also informing investor decisions. KnowTheChain is committed to helping companies make an impact in their efforts to address forced labor.

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150 150_LaborVoices Inc

2017 LaborVoices http://www.laborvoices.com/

LaborVoices provides companies with an early warning system based on direct feedback from workers, by repeatedly polling workers through their mobile phones to obtain strong safety standards and decent working conditions.

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151 151_Measurabl 2013 Measurabl https://www.measurabl.com/

Sustainability management begins with collecting data. Measurabl continually checks for discrepancies and irregularities so your reports are always up to date and investment-grade. Measurabl connects directly to your utilities, making it easy to monitor energy and water use. Collect data for a single building, or an entire real estate portfolio with a few clicks. Import utility data directly into Energy Star Portfolio Manager and eliminate manual errors for good.

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152 152_Mindclick 2011 Mindclick https://mindclick.com/

MindClick’s powerful analytics connect the actions of suppliers with the needs of purchasers, driving improvement and helping organizations cost-effectively buy smarter and do no harm. Services include: Supply Chain Engagement: We tailor our stakeholder engagement expertise, a robust suite of powerful data collection, survey and analysis tools, and access to our supplier sustainability database to help you measure, align and improve performance.Performance Improvement: MindClick’s powerful analytics combine supplier ratings, your procurement spend, and economic and social ROI measures to help you set improvement targets. We support supplier performance improvement through our web based platform – sharing best practices and providing resources, training tools and guidance.Integration with Procurement: Our information tools are customized to fit the way you do business. Ranging from annual assessments, to integrated information tools for use in contracting, to real-time point of purchase details, we provide the information you need, in the format you need, when you need it.

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153 153_MitraStar Technology Corp

MitraStar http://www.mitrastar.com/abouttitle.php?lang=eng&ctwo=q4qzastawtgaseaswgse

This technology company has built a "green cooperative information system" to control each stage of the supply chain from raw materials to disposal to ensure green requirements are met.

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https://www.hpd-collaborative.org/

https://www.hpd-collaborative.org/







http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/iso26000.htm



https://www.knowthechain.org/resources/



http://www.laborvoices.com/

http://www.laborvoices.com/

https://www.measurabl.com/

https://www.measurabl.com/

https://mindclick.com/

https://mindclick.com/

http://www.mitrastar.com/abouttitle.php?lang=eng&ctwo=q4qzastawtgaseaswgse




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Chain154 154_Oracle 1977 Oracle http://www.oracle.c

om/us/products/applications/peoplesoft-enterprise/enterprise-performance-management/064749.html

This company provides supply chain analytics to help reduce inventories and operational costs, and improve customer service. Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment. We see sustainability as a natural extension of business operations and address sustainability challenges with solutions that can be easily integrated with a company’s core business activities.

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155 155_Peer Aspect 2011 Stacks Data (FKA Peer aspect)

https://welcome.stacksdata.com/

This software company provides tools for customers to more efficiently and effectively achieve compliance. Tool

156 156_Pharos Systems International

2019 Pharos https://pharos.com/ We are a cloud services and technology company specializing in print management software and solutions. We work with many of the world's largest global brands in financial services, healthcare, insurance, government, manufacturing, and higher education. We help these organizations make their printing more secure, cost-effective, user-friendly and sustainable. We can do the same for you! Sustainability is in our DNA. With our solutions and expertise, we help government agencies, universities and corporate enterprises to create a more efficient and sustainable print environment for their organization. This saves them a lot of money and helps shrink their ecological footprint. Our commitment to sustainability extends to our customers, partners, and the broader community in which we live. That’s why Pharos is proud to be a benefit corporation and a Certified B Corp. Benefit corporations are leading a global movement to redefine success in business by voluntarily meeting higher social and ecological standards of transparency, accountability, and performance. We strive to inspire and challenge all businesses to compete not only to be the best in the world, but to be the best for the world.

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157 157_Practice Greenhealth

2019 Practice Greenhealth Cost of Ownership Calculator

https://practicegreenhealth.org/gco

Many medical devices cost more than the purchase price when considering usage, maintenance and disposal costs. Practice Greenhealth and our partners have developed the the Greenhealth Cost of Ownership (GCO) Calculator that brings these hidden costs to the surface. Using a standardized framework, the tool helps purchasers assess and compare costs, and make cost-saving decisions.

Tool y

158 158_ProductBio 2018 ProductBio http://productbio.com/

ProductBio's data-driven tools represent best-in-class information available for Environmentally Preferable Purchasing decisions. ProductBio's tools include: 1. Benefits and Liabilities (B&L) Calculator: Measure, track, benchmark, and report on cost savings and benefit gains across managed procurement categories. Balance your sustainability budget against financial budget constraints.2. Environmental Purchasing (EPP) Policy Builder: Access trusted buyer specification language from 450+ standards and ecolabel certifier data partners covering 1000+ categories to build your EPP criteria and connect them to hotspot impact targets.3. The "Dollars Well-Spent" Greener Product Finder: Find best-fit products with attributes most conformant to both your EPP criteria and cost constraints from a 5 million product database ready for procurement systems.

Tool Y y

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http://productbio.com/

http://productbio.com/

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Chain159 159_SPLC ratings

guide2007 RepRisk ESG Risk

Platformhttps://www.reprisk.com/our-clients#supply-chain

RepRisk helps you to identify, assess, and monitor ESG and business conduct risks in your business and investments. Business conduct risks related to human rights, labor, the environment, and corruption can translate into reputational, compliance, and financial risks for a company. How a company manages such issues is recognized as a long-term value driver and is directly linked to their operational excellence and social license to operate.RepRisk can help you navigate this landscape. We offer a suite of due diligence solutions that facilitate your risk management and compliance processes, from initial risk screening to systematic integration, to the daily monitoring of risks. Since 2006, we have helped some of the world’s leading financial institutions and corporates reduce blind spots and shed light on the ESG and business conduct risks related to their clients, investments, and business relationships. RepRisk serves supply chain managers and procurement professionals at multinational companies, providing them with an efficient, systematic tool that facilitates the identification and assessment of ESG and business conduct risks in their supply chain, and supports supplier selection, onboarding, monitoring, and engagement processes. RepRisk serves supply chain managers and procurement professionals at multinational companies, providing them with an efficient, systematic tool that facilitates the identification and assessment of ESG and business conduct risks in their supply chain, and supports supplier selection, onboarding, monitoring, and engagement processes.

Tool Y

160 160_Responsible Business Alliance

2004 Responsible Business Alliance Assessment

http://www.responsiblebusiness.org/standards/assessment/

The self-assessment is designed to help members identify their greatest social, environmental and ethical risks in their supply chains so they can take action to remedy existing Code of Conduct violations, and put in place systems to prevent violations from occurring in the future. The self-assessment is primarily a tool for members own due diligence by providing a mechanism to assess their own risk management systems and identify gaps. As members’ supply chains change (for example, suppliers change or materials used by suppliers change), their risks will subsequently change and require a re-assessment of risks to workers’ rights and the environmental health of surrounding communities. 2019 Launched an innovation project for automatic supply chain monitoring to monitor global supply chains against ESG and business conduct risks.

Tool Y

161 161_RobecoSAM 2019 RobecoSAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment

http://www.robecosam.com/en/sustainability-insights/about-sustainability/corporate-sustainability-assessment/index.jsp

The RobecoSAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) is an annual evaluation of companies’ sustainability practices. Each year we ask over 3,400 companies around the world listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexbetween 80-120 industry-specific questions focusing on economic, environmental and social factors that are relevant to the companies’ success, but that are under-researched in conventional financial analysis.

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162 162_SAI 2019 SA8000 Standard http://www.sa-intl.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&PageID=937

It is one of the world’s first auditable social certification standards for decent workplaces, across all industrial sectors. It is based on the UN Declaration of Human Rights, conventions of the ILO, UN and national law, and spans industry and corporate codes to create a common language to measure social performance. SA8000 measures social performance in eight areas important to social accountability in workplaces, anchored by a management system element that drives continuous improvement in all areas of the Standard.

Tool N y

163 163_SAP 2015 SAP Product Stewardship Network

https://psn.hana.ondemand.com/; https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/PLM/Overview+-+SAP+Product+Stewardship+Network

SAP Product Stewardship Network is an online collaboration community that enables companies and their supply chains to exchange sustainability data efficiently. SAP Product Stewardship Network can be used as a stand-alone solution as well as in connection with our environment, health, and safety (EHS) management software. Product offerings include sustainability assessment, conflict minerals assessment, compliance declaration, and community forum.

Tool N Y

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Chain164 164_Sedex 2019 Sedex Analytics http://www.sedexgl

obal.com/about-sedex/#sthash.KBCeLLa2.dpuf; https://www.sedexglobal.com/our-services/sedex-analytics/

We’re home to one of the world’s largest collaborative platforms for sharing responsible sourcing data on supply chains, used by more than 50,000 members in over 150 countries. PRODUCTS: (1) Our Sedex Advance product is one of the largest collaborative platforms in the world for buyers, suppliers and auditors to store, share and report on information quickly and easily. (2) SMETA is one of the most widely used social audit procedures in the world. It provides a globally-recognised way to assess responsible supply chain activities, including labour rights, health & safety, the environment and business ethics.

Tool N y

165 165_New Earth 2010 Social Hotspots Database

https://www.socialhotspot.org/

The Social Hotspots Database aims to foster greater collaboration in improving social conditions worldwide by providing the data and the tools necessary for improved visibility of social hotspots in product supply chains. The SHDB offers a Risk Mapping Tool to visualize and communicate the social risks present in product supply chains. The SHDB Risk Mapping Tool helps you identify: Where country and sector social risks are at their highest; Which issues rise to the top, among Human Rights, Labor Rights and Decent Work, Local Community, Governance and Health and Safety; How to address these risks with Standards or Certifications that address them.

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168 168_Supplier Gateway

2017 Supplier Gateway https://www.suppliergateway.com/

PLatform for supplier management, including diversity goals. The SupplierGATEWAY Supplier Data Management System (SDMS) helps you to engage suppliers, collect critical capabilities, compliance and product data to support your sourcing, purchasing, supplier management, and compliance/reporting processes.

Tool N Y


2018 UPR-SDG Data Explorer

https://sdgdata.humanrights.dk/

Uses an algorithm to automatically identify links between the SDG targets and recommendations from the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The tool aims to facilitate follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda at the global, regional and national levels. Users can explore links between the 169 SDG targets and UPR recommendations for specific regions, countries or groups.

Tool Y

172 172_General Services Administration

2013 Sustainable Facilities Tool (SFTool)

https://sftool.gov/ SFTool is an online portal that offers a variety of tools (primarily for Federal purchasers) grouped into the following areas of focus: 1) Understanding Federal requirements; 2) Project planning and development; 3) Procurement; 4) Operations and Maintenance

Tool N Y

174 174_GeSI 2015 Sustainablility Assessment Framework (SASF)

http://sasframework.gesi.org/

The Sustainability Assessment Framework (SASF) project set itself the ambitious goal of developing a comprehensive assessment tool to evaluate the sustainability performance of ICT products and services. The SASF is a comprehensive assessment tool: it covers environmental, human rights and utility aspects as well as benefits. The assessment is structured as a questionnaire and results in a product scoring system. Each aspect is subdivided into criteria, which again are divided into sub-criteria. Sub-criteria contain indicators, which form the basis of the questionnaire. The indicators are weighted according to their impact on sustainability performance.

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175 175_Sustrana 2010 Sustrana http://www.sustrana.com/

Sustrana is a software company that provides sustainability management solutions. Our online sustainability management system enables companies to build highly effective sustainability programs in less time for less money. Features of the online platform include: Roadmap for creating a plan of action, hands-on tools to collaborate and build, a process for making steady progress, education for each step of the way, expert advice.

Tool n Y

177 177_UL WERCS Studio https://www.ul.com/apps/wercs-studio

WERCS Studio software is designed to help you efficiently manage your environmental health and safety (EHS) initiatives and mitigate risks of noncompliance. This hazard communication and chemical data management software is comprised of more than 30 scalable modules that provide the most comprehensive and flexible automated solutions available. WERCS Studio software is well-equipped for global business needs, including more than 5,000 global regulations and 21,000 certified safety phrases in 45 languages. Plus, the solution goes well beyond the SDS. Whether it’s raw material introduction, report creation, or distribution and workflow management, we offer the functionality to streamline hazard communication processes.

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https://sftool.gov/



http://www.sustrana.com/

http://www.sustrana.com/

https://www.ul.com/apps/wercs-studio

https://www.ul.com/apps/wercs-studio

# AuthorYear/ Last



Chain178 178_Thinkstep Thinkstep SoFi http://www.sofi-

software.com/america/index/

SoFi Enterprise: Integrate reporting and sustainability performance management for your entire organization and your value chain with SoFi Enterprise. A flexible platform connected to your ERP system and meters covering all environmental and social aspects of your business. SoFi Enterprise includes powerful performance analytics, planning and project management tools as well as industry-leading content libraries for benchmarking and best practice projects reducing your impact. SoFi Professional: Sustainability reporting software. Accelerate and enhance your carbon, sustainability or building portfolio reporting with SoFi Professional solutions. Certified by the Global Reporting Initiative and CDP these ready-to-go solutions include all important carbon and sustainability indicators and the latest GRESB questionnaire to save you time and money.

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179 179_Toxnot 2016 Toxnot https://content.toxnot.com/supply-chain

Toxnot’s software streamlines supplier data collection, compliance assessment, sustainability, and product reporting. We make it easy to stay organized, increase responses from your suppliers, automate complex reporting, and protect proprietary information. Everything is searchable, taggable, and secure.Choose safer chemical alternatives, analyze entire supply chains, quickly produce reports like Declare Labels and HPDs. Toxnot can handle the most granular chemical formulations from your suppliers so you can make compliance decisions easily. Toxnot is an industry-leading technology company with a mission to improve health & sustainability across global supply chains. We work with global manufacturers and suppliers to help the world design and build better products. Our founders, Pete Girard and Bill Hoffman created software platform that can ultimately be used to clean up the toxic chemicals in our world’s supply chains. Together they lead a movement to disrupt the notoriously complex supply chain chemical hazard landscape and build creative solutions for businesses of all kinds.

Consulting N Y

180 180_Trucost 2019 Trucost SDG Evaluation Tool

https://www.trucost.com/

Trucost provides environmental data, tools, and insight for investment decision making. Service offerings include carbon and natural capital investment metrics platform, verification of green bonds, investment products, and carbon pricing investor toolkit. Trucost also helps inform business decisions along the value chain through impact measurement, natural, social, and human capital valuation, sustainable supply chain metrics, and assurance and reporting services. To help companies align strategies with the SDGs, Trucost has launched an SDG Evaluation Tool. The tool provides a quantitative analysis of corporate performance on the SDGs across the value chain, from raw material inputs to product use and disposal, within the context of a company’s geographic operations.With the Trucost SDG Evaluation Tool you can:Determine which SDGs are relevant to business operations, supply chains and productsIdentify opportunities to create business value from SDGsPrioritize investment in SDGs where it matters mostReport progress on business alignment with SDGs in a way that is holistic and robust

Tool Y Y

181 181_Spot UL 2019 UL Spot https://www.ul.com/apps/spot-product-database

Search more than 40,000 Energy Star® and Safer Choice Certified products. SPOT features thousands of products that comply with EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Program guidelines. Find GREENGUARD, ECOLOGO, and EPEAT products. SPOT features thousands of products that comply with EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Program guidelines. Search for GREENGUARD, ECOLOGO, and EPEAT products today.

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182 182_UN 2000 UN Global Compact

http://www.unglobalcompact.org/AboutTheGC/TheTenPrinciples/index.html

A framework sponsored by the UN to promote responsible business practices and UN values among the global business community and the UN System. The multi-year strategy of the UN Global Compact is to drive business awareness and action in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

Tool Y

183 183_Verego 2016 Verego http://verego.com/vision-values/

An organization that has created standards for leadership, ethics, people, community, and environment and certifies companies to these standards. Uniting the Global Economy to promote the Responsibility Movement.

Tool N

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https://content.toxnot.com/supply-chain

https://content.toxnot.com/supply-chain



https://www.ul.com/apps/spot-product-database



http://verego.com/vision-values/

http://verego.com/vision-values/

# AuthorYear/ Last



Chain185 185_Verisk

Analytics2015 Verisk Climate http://benchmarkwe

b.veriskclimate.com/about-us/

Verisk Climate is company that offers data management and analytics software to optimize business operations and reduce climate impacts.

Tool N

186 184_Verité 2019 Verité https://www.verite.org/

Verité® provides the knowledge and tools to eliminate the most serious labor and human rights abuses in global supply chains. Our vision is a world where people work under safe, fair, and legal conditions. Our Goals: To provide businesses with tools that help to eliminate labor abuses. To empower workers to advocate for their rights. To create publicly-shared resources that enlighten and drive action. To contribute our expertise to government labor and human rights policy.

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187 187_Vertaeon 2017 Vertaeon http://www.vertaeon.com/supply-chain

Vertaeon's solution applies advanced-level analytics and machine learning to aggregate, transform and analyze various large scale and disparate supplier data via a proprietary web-based platform. We have the capability to identify relevant information for various product lines, and to also develop actionable insights once the analysis is completed. This in-depth analytics covers over 100 indicators for risk, compliance and ESG (environmental, social and governance) from external sources and company databases. The solution covers on a consistent and user friendly manner:Environmental footprint - Emissions, GHG; Resource footprint; Regulatory aspects; Risk assessment; Sector benchmarking.

Tool n Y

188 188_GeSI 2018 Sustainable Development Platform (SDP) GESI

http://gesi.org/sdp/ The SDP is an online assessment tool designed to help companies to benchmark their sustainability performance against best practice and suggests priority actions customized by sustainability experts. The economic benefits of their actual improvements are quantified and tracked and the progress is monitored against measurable targets. The recognition and acceptance of corporate responsibility (CR) as a framework to strengthen corporate competitiveness is increasingly recognized and practiced world-wide. Therefore, we developed a pioneering programme, the Sustainable Development Platform (SDP) that collaboratively develops strategic suppliers to achieve best practice in Corporate Responsibility. It is well recognized that CR improvements deliver financial benefits along with environmental and social improvements. The SDP achieves business benefits for the suppliers through cost reduction, risk reduction, increased innovation, and increased positive reputation.

Tool y

189 189_GRI 2016 GRI Standards https://www.globalreporting.org/information/sustainability-reporting/Pages/default.aspx

GRI helps businesses and governments worldwide understand and communicate their impact on critical sustainability issues such as climate change, human rights, governance and social well-being. This enables real action to create social, environmental and economic benefits for everyone. The GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards are developed with true multi-stakeholder contributions and rooted in the public interest. The GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards) are the first and most widely adopted global standards for sustainability reporting. Sustainability reporting enables organizations to consider their impacts of wide range of sustainability issues, enabling them to be more transparent about the risks and opportunities they face.

Standard y

190 190_SASB 2018 Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

https://www.sasb.org/

SASB connects businesses and investors on the financial impacts of sustainability. SASB standards enable businesses around the world to identify, manage and communicate financially-material sustainability information to their investors.

Standard n

192 192_doteco 2017 .ECO system www.go.eco .ECO domain name holders report their commitments against the SDGs. Database y

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https://www.verite.org/

https://www.verite.org/

http://www.vertaeon.com/supply-chain

http://www.vertaeon.com/supply-chain

http://gesi.org/sdp/

https://www.globalreporting.org/information/sustainability-reporting/Pages/default.aspx







http://www.go.eco/

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Chain193 193_Health Care

Without Harm2018 Sustainable

Health in Procurement Project

https://noharm-global.org/issues/global/sdgs-and-procurement

The Sustainable Health in Procurement Project (SHiPP) is a program developed by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), and funded by the Swedish International Development Agency, that aims to reduce the harm to people and the environment caused by the manufacture, use and disposal of medical products and by the implementation of health programs. SHiPP is a four-year project aiming to promote sustainable procurement in the health sector, in the United Nations (UN) Agencies, and in key project countries through the reduction of toxicity of chemicals and materials in health products, the reduction of greenhouse gases in the supply chain and the conservation of resources. The program began its implementation in January 2018. Integrating sustainability criteria into procurement process aligns with and will contribute to results under a number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well which means that SHiPP works in exactly the manner the SDGs are intended to be implemented.

Project/Program Y Y

194 194_UNIDO 2018 The RECPnet We Want: Aligning the Global Network with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

https://www.recpnet.org/uncategorized/recpnet-supports-the-sdgs/

The primary objective of RECPnet is to contribute to the effective and efficient development, application, adaptation, scaling up and mainstreaming of RECP concepts, methods, policies, practices and technologies in developing and transition economies. Additionally, RECPnet aims to facilitate North-South, South-South and South-North-South collaboration, including the transfer of RECP-relevant knowledge, experiences and technologies. The members of the Global Network for Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production(RECPnet) have positioned themselves to an increasing extent as facilitators between business and public institutions, on matters relating to cleaner production and sustainable consumption. Through this, RECPnet is already acting as an important partner in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), helping to translate and optimize the SDGs’ targets and indicators into relevant business metrics and supportive initiatives.

Organization Y

195 195_Fair Trade Advocacy Office

2016 Localising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Fair Trade

https://www.localizingthesdgs.org/library/200/Localising-the-Sustainable-Development-Goals-SDGs-through-Fair-Trade-toolkit.pdf

Fair Trade is an example of the active and inclusive partnerships we need in our pursuit of the SDGs. Fair Trade promotes sustainable and equitable production and consumption patterns that keep our planet healthier and our societies more inclusive. And by better connecting marginalised producers and workers to sustainable value chains, Fair Trade does its fair share to reduce inequalities and help people get out of poverty.

Tool Y

196 196_Ambition to Action

2019 SDG Climate Action Nexus tool (SCAN-tool)

http://ambitiontoaction.net/scan_tool/

The SDG Climate Action Nexus tool (SCAN-tool) is designed to provide high-level guidance on how climate actions can impact achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SCAN-tool aims to be user-friendly and practical and it is meant to support policy makers across different departments and state levels, to achieve greater policy coherence and to improve the efficiency of implementation by providing them with an initial indication of which climate actions may impact -positively or negatively- specific SDG targets.

Tool Y

198 198_UNOPS and ITRC

2019 SustainABLE https://sustainable.unops.org

‘SustainABLE’ will provide project partners, developers and others working in the development sector with practical actions that will help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Tool y y

200 200_UN Global Compact/B Corporation

2020 SDG Action Manager

https://app.bimpactassessment.net/get-started/pa

Launched in 2020. Through this publicly available online platform, businesses will be able to assess, compare, and improve their performance against the SDGs, delivering tangible progress on them by 2030. Companies will also be able to access online resources through the platform to improve their impact and benchmark against key indicators and peers. The online tool will feature select questions from the B Impact Assessment that have been mapped to the SDGs, supplemented by new performance measures based on the expertise of anchor partner the UN Global Compact and other advisors.

Tool y y

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Chain201 201_UN Global

Compact/ B Corporation

2016 Making Global Goals Local Business - Roadmap supply chain

https://www.unglobalcompact.org/take-action/leadership/integrate-sustainability/roadmap/supply-chain

How different functions can be engaged in developing and implementing sustainability strategies within companies; guidance for companies on how to integrate sustainability-related goals and strategies across the organization.

Website y

202 202_UNDP 2015 UNDP Procurement Strategy 2015-2017

https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/procurement/sustainable-procurement.html

Commitment to UNDP’s mission of helping countries achieve the simultaneous eradication of poverty and significant reduction of inequalities and exclusion, as articulated in its Strategic Plan, and to realize the benefits of sustainable procurement

Report y

203 203_UN 2018 SDG Tracker https://sdg-tracker.org/

A free, open-access publication that tracks global progress towards the SDGs; presents data across all available indicators from the Our World in Data database, using official statistics from the UN and other international organizations. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are defined in a list of 169 SDG Targets. Progress towards these Targets is agreed to be tracked by 232 unique Indicators.

Website y

204 204_UN 2019 SDG Summit 2019 https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgsummit

Review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs; declaration for action to deliver the SDGs by 2030 and announcement of actions to advance the agenda

Conference y

205 205_UNDP 2019 SDG Impact Practice Standards for Private Equity Funds

https://sdgimpact.undp.org/practice-standards.html

The Standards for Private Equity have been developed for Fund Managers and other industry actors as a public good to inform practice that can direct and orient investment activities towards achievement of the SDGs. They are designed to facilitate implementation of the principles frameworks already in place and inform performance reporting and benchmarking. They embed the SDGs and IMPs five dimensions within a framework for concrete actions to more fully understanding and comparing SDG related impact. The Standards will be applied to each Fund, recognising that fund managers may manage several funds that may or may not be seeking to apply these Standards

Standard y

206 206_Brookings 2019 Shaping the Global Agenda to Maximize City Leadership on the SDGs

https://www.brookings.edu/research/shaping-the-global-agenda-to-maximize-city-leadership-on-the-sdgs/

Policy implications of mayoral and city leadership on the SDGs based on their experiences and guidance, with associated recommendations to help accelerate and deepen progress on the SDGs at the local level.

Report y

207 207_PWC 2018 Navigating the SDGs: a business guide to engaging with the UN Global Goals

https://www.pwc.com/globalgoals

Practical introduction to the SDGs and their implications for business: how business leaders can take action to mitigate the risks and grasp the opportunities that each goal presents; how to identify and prioritise the SDGs that are important to your business.

Guide y

208 208_SoPac 2015 Step by Step Guide to SDG Reporting

https://www.sopact.com/sdg-reporting

Best practices in SDG tracking and reporting Guide y

210 210_Hermes Investment Management

2019 Engaging for impact

https://www.unpri.org/sdgs/sdg-case-studies/engaging-for-impact

How investors can engage with companies to promote and support sustainable business practices and measure impact

Report y

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Chain211 211_PRI,SSF 2019 TCFD and SDGs:

Using existing global frameworks to ensure more resilient investments

https://www.unpri.org/tcfd-and-sdgs-using-existing-global-frameworks-to-ensure-more-resilient-investments/5093.article

Provided in-depth knowledge and guidance on TCFD and SDGs, helping participants understand how to apply elements of the frameworks within their investment processes

Conference y

212 212_Textile Exchange

2019 SDG Mapping Resource 1.1

https://textileexchange.org/sdg-mapping-by-industry-initiative/

Provides a brief overview of each SDG and its respective targets and progress along with suggestions for the sector and how existing existing industry initiatives can advance the SDGs. Not designed to be a comprehensive list of available tools and initiatives but are representative of the sustainability work being undertaken by the Textile and Apparel industry.

Tool y

213 213_EY and UN Global Compact

2016 How to build responsible and resilient supply chains

https://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/EY-building-responsible-and-resilient-supply-chains/$FILE/EY-building-responsible-and-resilient-supply-chains.pdf

Explores how businesses are embedding sustainability in their supply chains by managing risks and adopting new commitments around human rights, the environment and the well-being of communities; identifies 8 actions companies can take to further embed sustainability in their supply chains

Report y y

214 214_TPI and UNDESA

2018 Maximising the impact of partnerships for the SDGs

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/2564Maximising_the_impact_of_partnerships_for_the_SDGs.pdf

Practical guide to SDG partnership value creation Guide y


2016 Advancing SDG 5 Through Inclusive Sourcing


Explores the business case for inclusive sourcing and opportunities; links Principle 5 of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), which encourages companies to expand on their business connections with women-owned enterprises, to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with particular regard to SDG 5, which aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The webinar addresses socially responsible sourcing practices. Business and supplier representatives present their experiences and programmes.

Webinar y

216 216_Lenzing 2019 Blog: Introducing SDG Decoded

https://carvedinblue.tencel.com/introducing-sdg-decoded/

Will share progress denim mills and brands are making with SDGs and what they're learning, in 2020 Website y

217 217_Global Impact Sourcing Coalition

2019 Impact Sourcing Challenge

https://gisc.bsr.org/impact-sourcing/challenge; https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=25773

Escalating impact sourcing as a way to increase employment and career development opportunities for disadvantaged workers. Aimed for responsible businesses seeking to positively transform employees' lives through their procurement and hiring practices. The Challenge is registered on the United Nations' global registry of voluntary commitments and multi-stakeholder partnerships and is seen as the largest official commitment to UN Sustainable Development Goal 8 and inclusive job creation.

Commitment y

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Chain218 218_World Bank 2015 Sustainable

Development Goals and Open Data

https://blogs.worldbank.org/digital-development/sustainable-development-goals-and-open-data

Open Data offers freely available data meant to help achieve the SDGs and measure progress in meeting them; Open Data is a facilitator of standards, a tool for accountability and an evidence base for impact assessment.

Report y

219 219_UNEP 2012 10YFP - 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/resource-efficiency/what-we-do/one-planet-network/10yfp-10-year-framework-programmes

Generates collective impact through multi-stakeholder programmes and partnerships, which develop, replicate and scale up Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) policies and initiatives at all levels.

Commitment y

220 220_One Planet Network

2019 Global SCP Resource Database

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/knowledge-hub

Resources on sustainable consumption and production from around the world. The One Planet network has formed to implement the commitment of the 10YFP. It is a multi-stakeholder partnership for sustainable development, generating collective impact through its six programmes: Public Procurement, Buildings and Construction, Tourism, Food Systems, Consumer Information, and Lifestyles and Education. The One Planet network is an open partnership, and countries including all relevant stakeholders and organisations are invited to join and actively engage. The strategic objective of the One Planet network over the period 2018-2022 is to be recognised as the lead mechanism to support and accelerate the shift to sustainable consumption and production patterns, becoming the leading implementation mechanism for Goal 12 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Database y

221 221_EcoVadis 2019 Toward Sustainable Public Procurement - A Best Practice Guide

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/toward-sustainable-public-procurement-best-practice-guide

Procurement practices that cities, states and agencies can implement to deliver a major impact on sustainability performance across the world

Guide y

222 222_ISEAL Alliance 2019 ISEAL Sustainability Benchmarking Good Practice Guide

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/iseal-sustainability-benchmarking-good-practice-guide

The Good Practice Guide aims to be a useful reference point for benchmark experts, practitioners and users across sectors and industries

Guide y n


2019 Driving change through public procurement: A toolkit on human rights for policy makers and public buyers

https://www.humanrights.dk/publications/driving-change-through-public-procurement-toolkit-human-rights-policy-makers-public

Explores how public procurement policy makers, buyers & contract managers can implement requirements that suppliers respect human rights; includes how requirements that suppliers respect human rights can be included at each stage of the procurement process and provide examples of how this has been done in practice

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Chain224 224_Inter-American

Development Bank (IADB)

2018 Green Procurement: How to Encourage Green Procurement Practices in IDB Funded Projects?

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/green-procurement-how-encourage-green-procurement-practices-idb-funded-projects

Provides guidelines for borrowing countries and IDB personnel on green procurement practices, so that Bank’s funded projects will reduce the negative environmental impact of goods, works, services and consultancies being contracted; and, also promote more environmentally sustainable actions. Based on good practices and international standards and trends, the document shows how environmental aspects can be considered in the IDB’s programming and in each project cycle.

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225 225_European Commission

2019 GPP support tools by the European Commission

https://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/index_en.htm

The European Commission is providing support to contracting authorities interested in buying green by various means, e.g. voluntary GPP criteria for priority product groups, a GPP Helpdesk guidance documents, best practice cases, a GPP news alert. National GPP criteria for products and services in the public procurement process

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2019 GPP Training Toolkit

https://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/toolkit_en.htm

Designed for use by public purchasers and by GPP trainers, or integration in general public procurement training courses and workshops.

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2017 Public Procurement for a Circular Economy: Good practice and guidance

https://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/pdf/cp_european_commission_brochure_en.pdf

Overview of the practical approaches that can help to embed circularity into procurement processes, with additional resources and initiatives

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228 228_Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data

2016 Open Mapping for the SDGs: A practical guide to launching and growing open mapping initiatives at the national and local levels

http://www.data4sdgs.org/resources/open-mapping-sdgs

Crowdsourced geospatial data, particularly in OpenStreetMap, is helping fill data gaps at the micro level as well as providing insight into SDG progress on a more real-time basis than is possible through annual/bi-annual surveys and periodic censuses. Empowering communities to geo-locate key community assets and vulnerabilities helps decision-makers gauge coverage, gaps, and risks at the ultra-local level. This guide provides a brief compendium of resources for national bureaus of statistics, national mapping agencies, line ministries, and non-government partners to foster the growth of participatory mapping in their countries and develop national roadmaps. It builds on work from Open Cities, Open Government Partnership, Citizen Science initiatives in the White House, the United States Department of State, MapGive, and Missing Maps. Part IV includes a mapping of SDGs and indicators to suggested open mapping projects.

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229 229_ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

2015 Measuring, Monitoring, and Evaluating the SDGs

https://www.localizingthesdgs.org/library/236/ICLEI-SDGs-Briefing-Sheets-06-Measuring-Monitoring-and-Evaluating-the-SDGs.pdf

Examines the role that data and indicators will play in ensuring transparency and accountability in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and for monitoring progress towards the SDG targets at the sub-national level.

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230 230_SDG National Reporting Initiative - Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE)

2018 Strategies for SDG National Reporting

http://reports.opendataenterprise.org/CODE_StrategiesforSDGreporting.pdf

A review of current approaches and key considerations for government reporting on the SDGs Report/Guide y

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Chain232 232_UN DESA 2019 Report of the

Secretary-General on SDG Progress 2019

https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/sustainable/sdg-progress-reports-2019.html

An official document mainly intended to inform the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on progress towards the SDGs. Going beyond the usual data-driven analysis of progress, the special edition addresses the global response to the 2030 Agenda and the gaps and challenges encountered over the first cycle of its implementation. It also describes efforts necessary to accelerate SDG action. It highlights cross-cutting actions to advance progress on all the Goals and targets and help the ones who are falling behind.

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233 233_SPLC 2017 Guidance for Leadership in Sustainable Purchasing, v2.0

https://www.sustainablepurchasing.org/guidance/

Guidance for Leadership in Sustainable Purchasing is a comprehensive handbook for organizations seeking to exercise leadership in sustainable purchasing. It supports organizations working to develop or grow their purchasing efforts into a comprehensive sustainable purchasing program that takes meaningful responsibility for all significant environmental, social, and economic consequences of its spending.

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234 234_EC 2016 Buying Green! Handbook

https://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/buying_handbook_en.htm

The Handbook is the European Commission's main guidance document to help public authorities buy goods and services with a lower environmental impact. It is also a useful reference for policy makers and companies responding to green tenders.

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235 235_UNEP 2012 Sustainable Public Procurement Implementation Guidelines - Introducing UNEP’s Approach

https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/resource/sustainable-public-procurement-implementation-guidelines-introducing-uneps-approach

These Guidelines aim to give direction to governments on designing and implementing sustainable public procurement (SPP) policies and action plans. The aim is to provide countries a common vision, language and framework for SPP and to guide stakeholders on how to effectively pave the way towards SPP implementation

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236 236_NASPO 2011 NASPO Green Purchasing Guide

https://www.naspo.org/green/index.html

NASPO has developed this Green Purchasing Guide for its members and others to use in navigating the sea of information surrounding the adoption of a green purchasing program.This guide is intended to be a straightforward, easy-to-use document.

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237 237_IRCCi 2018 Measuring Effectiveness: Roadmap to Assessing System-level and SDG Investing,

Measuring Effectiveness: Roadmap to Assessing System-level and SDG Investing,

Provides investors with a roadmap for measuring the effectiveness of their system-level investing approaches—asnwering question: "How can I measure whether I, as a longterm institutional investor, have contributed to promoting the long-term wealth-creating potential of the environment, society, or the financial system?"

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238 238_Ulula 2019 Ulula Platform https://ulula.com/ Tool enabling stakeholder engagement along supply chains Tool n y

239 239_RBA 2013 RBA-Online (FKA EICC)

http://www.responsiblebusiness.org/

RBA-Online is an online sustainability data management system designed to help RBA members and their suppliers manage and share sustainability data, including from audits and self-assessment questionnaires that assess risk at the corporate, facility and supplier level.

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240 240_Sustainable Apparel Coalition

2019 HIGG Index https://apparelcoalition.org/the-higg-index/

The Higg Index is a suite of tools that enables brands, retailers, and facilities of all sizes — at every stage in their sustainability journey — to accurately measure and score a company or product’s sustainability performance. The Higg Index delivers a holistic overview that empowers businesses to make meaningful improvements that protect the well-being of factory workers, local communities, and the environment.

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241 241_PSCI 2019 The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI) audit collaboration

https://pscinitiative.org/auditCollaboration

The PSCI has developed guidance tools tailored for our industry for assessing performance and risk Tool y

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Chain242 242_DEFRA 2011 Sustainable

procurement in government: Guidance to the Flexible Framework

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sustainable-procurement-in-government-guidance-to-the-flexible-framework

The framework is a self assessment mechanism that allows organisations to measure and monitor their progress on sustainable procurement over time.

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243 243_IGPN 2011 Green Purchasing & Green Public Procurement Starter Kit

http://www.igpn.org/focus_on/kit/index.html

The Green Purchasing & Green Public Procurement Starter Kit is an interactive web and CD-ROM based package which provides information in interactive modules for: understanding sustainability, green purchasing, green public procurement, eco-materials, eco-components, eco-products, eco-services; how to implement a green purchasing programme in a company; how to implement a green public procurement programme; and some issues in green purchasing & procurement.”

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244 244_RPN 2011 Responsible Purchasing Network: 10 Steps to Starting a Sustainable Purchasing Program

http://www.responsiblepurchasing.org/publications/tensteps.pdf

Used by Practice Greenhealth members, these ten steps are “a helpful guide when starting to use contracting and procurement activities to prevent environmental problems and costs"

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245 245_Carbon Trust 2012 Carbon footprinting software: Footprint Manager, Footprint Expert, Value Chain Manager

http://www.carbontrust.com/software

Value Chain Manager helps large organisations measure, manage and reduce indirect emissions and ultimately capture the associated cost and reputational benefits of doing so.To fully understand the total carbon impact of a company's operations, we recommend that carbon footprint measurement needs to go beyond company-owned operating boundaries and reach into the broader supply and distribution chains, or Value Chain, to cover Scope 3 emissions. In accordance with Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, Scope 3 covers reporting categories beyond the direct Scope 1 and 2 emissions of an organisation to include purchased goods and services, business travel and employee commuting.

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246 246_Catalonia Government

2019 Catalan Government's GHG emissions calculator

https://canviclimatic.gencat.cat/en/actua/calculadora_demissions/

The Calculator is a tool to calculate organisation's GHG emissions. It includes the latest available emission factors, and is intended as a tool to estimate GHG emissions associated to an activity. Specifically, the Calculator does enable you to calculate emissions associated with energy consumption and transport, fugitive fluorinated gas emissions, and emissions from municipal waste management. This is a easy to use calculator, as activity data can be defined with different units. It also includes a Summary with the emissions classified by scopes and categories. The internationally recognised standards ISO 14064, part 1 and ISO 14069 are the methodologies of reference to classify GHG emissions into scopes.

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247 247_UNH 2019 Campus Carbon Calculator (CarbonMAP), Clean Air - Cool Planet; to be replaced by SIMAP (Sustainability Indicator Management and Analysis Platform)

https://sustainableunh.unh.edu/calculator; https://unhsimap.org/cmap/resources/tools

According to AASHE, the Campus Carbon Calculator is compliant with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (a standard procedure for analyzing GHG emissions) and is the carbon inventory tool most commonly used by campuses. Based on data provided by the user, the tool calculates total GHG emissions and the subsets of GHG emissions associated with various categories. The calculator can be used to create a GHG baseline, benchmark performance, set goals, and analyze progress. The most obvious connection to sustainable purchasing is electricity and other resource purchases. According to AASHE, version 6 will allow users to rank carbon-reducing projects according to their relative cost-effectiveness.

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Chain248 248_ICLEI 2014 Clean Fleet LCC

tool, Clean Fleets consortium, c/o ICLEI

http://www.clean-fleets.eu/publications/

With public authorities and fleet operators in mind, this tool has been specially developed to calculate LIFE-CYCLE COST of vehicle fleets for the clean vehicles directive (considering CO2 and other gases emissions and transforming them into costs).

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249 249_American Gas Assocation (AGA)

2012 Natural Gas Fleet Savings Calculator

http://fleetowner.com/running-green/ngv-cost-ownership-calculator

Drive Natural Gas Initiative - spreadsheet-based, total cost of ownership evaluation tool designed to help fleet owners conduct a preliminary analysis of the total costs associated with converting a fleet, or part of a fleet, to natural gas.

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250 250_Environmental Paper Network

2018 Paper Calculator http://c.environmentalpaper.org/home

The Paper Calculator is a tool for measuring the environmental impacts of paper and discovering the best paper choices. Use it to quantify the impacts of your paper usage, and to compare different grades and types of paper with varying amounts of recycled content.

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251 251_ICLEI 2016 GPP 2020 Energy Contracting Calculator

http://www.gpp2020.eu/low-carbon-tenders/measuring-savings/

The carbon savings calculator for energy contracting is based on the CO2-calculator developed by the Austrian Environmental Agency. It was complemented for the purpose of the GPP2020-project.

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252 252_ICLEI 2016 GPP 2020 Office ICT Calculator


This calculator is based on a calculator developed by U.S. EPA and DOE to estimate the energy consumption and operating costs of office equipment and the savings with ENERGY STAR

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253 253_ICLEI 2016 GPP 2020 Street Lighting Calculator


This calculator is based on a calculator developed by the Swedish Energy Agency and the Swedish organisation SEMCO.

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254 254_ICLEI 2016 GPP 2020 Vehicles Calculator


The calculator was developed for the GPP2020-project and is not based on any existing calculator. Calculator

255 255_ICLEI 2016 The Procura+ Manual: A Guide to Implementing Sustainable Procurement

https://procuraplus.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Manual/Procuraplus_Manual_Third_Edition.pdf

Aims to position sustainable procurement in the current economic, political and legal framework. Acts as a central point of reference for public authorities and others wishing to understand and implement sustainable procurement. The Manual continues to offer a clear overview of what sustainable procurement is, how it can be implemented and what the costs and benefits are. It is intended to be used both by those who are new to the field and those who are already familiar with the key concepts, but are seeking examples of sustainable procurement in action and arguments to strengthen it within their own organisations.

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256 256_Harvard 2012 Harvard Life Cycle Costing policy and calculator

https://green.harvard.edu/topics/green-buildings/life-cycle-costing

Designed to aid Harvard decision makers in considering all present and future costs related to new construction, renovation, equipment replacement, or any other project that involves upfront and ongoing expenditures. Method to calculate the full costs and savings of a project including initial costs (present costs), utility, operations & maintenance, and replacement costs (futurecosts) over a set period of time. Our LCC allows for simple analysis of the use of complex district thermal and energy systems with rate information updated annually by E&U.

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Chain257 257_Hewlett

Packard2012 Carbon Footprint

Calculatorhttp://h30248.www3.hp.com/cfc/index.html

Helps customers understand and identify steps to reduce the environmental impact and cost of their computing and printing. The data is based on energy assessments specific to the customer's country or even state—and includes information for 146 countries. Allows users to either review individual products or compare one product against another to understand potential energy savings. For printers, it is possible to evaluate a whole fleet. Customers can compare individual current and legacy HP products. The calculator shows the estimated energy use and cost, and the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Sliders on the screen allow customers comparing printers to vary factors, such as pages printed per year and the lifetime of the equipment, and immediately see the estimated effect on energy use and other factors. PC users can input alternative power supplies, graphics cards, and processors. Shows your current energy consumption and estimated GHG emissions, paper use, and annual cost. It then illustrates how HP business solutions can help you reduce your impact and save money. Alternatively, customers can opt for an advanced path that allows them to input the exact printers they use, resulting in more precise outputs that better reflect the customer's current situation.

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258 258_ICLEI 2017 LCC-CO2 Tool (beta version)

http://tool.smart-spp.eu/smartspp-tool/registration/login.php

Allows you to calculate life cycle costs and CO2 emissions of different products or services and to compare them. Calculator

259 259_Impact Measurement Ltd.

LM3 Online https://www.lm3online.com/

LM3 Online enables any organisation to measure its economic impact by analysing any expenditure on any geographic area using current data. LM3 Online automates the whole process. Simply upload the spending data of the budget you wish to measure, such as a contract or company turnover; specify the target local area, and the system does all the surveying and calculations.

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260 260_ Impact Measurement Ltd.

Impact Predictor http://www.impactpredictor.com/

Private and community sector users can use the tool to demonstrate indicative economic and employment impacts of their approach for the local economy providing a competitive advantage and an evidence base for community benefit. This approach uses the data generated from working with over 100 public, private, and not for profit sector organisations with spending of more than £11billion. We believe that it is essential that this outcome based approach should lie at the heart of Public Sector investment. Only by adopting such objective methodologies can the public sector realistically expect to deliver real value to the communities that they represent.

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261 261_Commonwealth of MA

2001 EnviroCalc, Massachusetts Environmentally Preferable Products (EPP) Procurement Program

https://www.pdx.edu/sites/www.pdx.edu.sustainability/files/envirocalc_2.0.xls

This calculator is designed to help purchasing officials estimate the environmental benefits of their purchases of recycled content and energy efficient products. Purchasing these products helps institutions consume less energy, produce less waste, conserve landfill space, save trees and other natural resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and protect public health. While not all these impacts are easy to quantify, the calculator allows purchasers to estimate some of them.(Includes recycled content and ENERGY STAR products)

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262 262_National Recycling Coalition (NRC)

2007 Conversionator http://philmang.com/work/nrc/shell_pepsi.html

Provides information on the benefits from recycling. Specifically calculates the energy impacts of recycling aluminum cans, paper, glass bottles, and plastic bottles.

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263 263_NIST Engineering Laboratory

2016 Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) Software

http://www.nist.gov/el/economics/BEESSoftware.cfm

A powerful technique for selecting cost-effective, environmentally-preferable building products. The tool is based on consensus standards and designed to be practical, flexible, and transparent. BEES Online, aimed at designers, builders, and product manufacturers, includes actual environmental and economic performance data for 230 building products. BEES measures the environmental performance of building products by using the life-cycle assessment approach specified in the ISO 14040 series of standards.

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Chain264 264_PASS vehicle

toolkitSustainable Vehicle Procurement Toolkit, PASS (Procurement and Sustainable Supply)

http://www.procurementcupboard.org/viewTool.aspx?ToolId=12

The toolkit's aim is to help improve the sustainability of small and medium businesses and their products and services, and to help raise sustainable procurement standards within the public sector. The greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions and safety standards of purchased / leased vehicles have been identified as a gap in information and awareness and this toolkit has been produced with this in mind. The kit consists of seven spreadsheets, each comparing different types of vehicles, with guidance notes on suggested usage.Parameters listed include purchase, delivery, and operating costs; CO2, PM10 and NOx emissions; NCAP safety ratings where applicable (not commercial vehicles). The user can set global factors such as fuel and carbon prices. You can use it in the way that best meets your organisation’s sustainable procurement needs.

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265 265_Practice Greenhealth

2016 Greenhealth Cost of Ownership Calculator

https://practicegreenhealth.org/cost-ownership-toolkit

Helps hospitals and health systems make the best procurement decisions to meet their needs. The tool provides a framework to assess the financial costs and bring hidden costs to the surface, including: Maintenance, Use, Disposal. Looking at the maintenance, use, and disposal costs to an organization means looking at costs, such as: Energy use, water consumption, fuel, and waste disposal; Cleaning; Consumables. The calculator provides a framework to compare products to identify cost savings and best value with the ultimate goal of minimizing an organization’s environmental footprint and improving health.

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266 266_RPN Green Cleaning Pollution Prevention Calculator

http://www.responsiblepurchasing.org/janitor/index.asp

The Green Cleaning Pollution Prevention Calculator quantifies the projected environmental benefits of purchasing and using "green" janitorial services and products. It is designed to forecast the environmental benefits of reducing chemical use by doing some or all pollution prevention measures typically involved in the routine interior cleaning of an office building. This tool also enables users to identify which green cleaning measures will have the greatest impact in reducing their use of hazardous chemicals and in preventing pollution. The Calculator's output applies only to standard office cleaning products and practices, and does not apply to other building maintenance issues, such as equipment maintenance, pest control, or landscaping activities.

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267 267_RPN Hybrid Calculator http://www.responsiblepurchasing.org/calculator/

Use the Hybrid Calculator to compare hybrid electric (HEV) and conventional vehicles. The calculator includes purchase price, fuel costs, repair and maintenance costs, resale value, and applicable tax incentives, and calculates expected lifetime costs for both vehicles, as well as cost and emissions savings from the HEV.

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268 268_Sound Resource Management

2012 Measuring Environmental Benefits Calculator (MEBCalc)

https://zerowaste.com/mebcalc/

Sound Resource Management’s proprietary software for computing the environmental footprint of a community’s municipal solid waste (MSW) management system, from collection through final disposition of each discarded product or packaging material. Environmental impacts covered in the footprint include climate change, public health (respiratory disease, cancer, and toxicity), ecosystem toxicity, waterway nutrification, and acid rain.

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269 269_Super-efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment (SEAD)

2014 SEAD Street Lighting Tool

https://www.superefficient.org/tools/street-lighting-tool

An Excel-based tool for calculating the expected energy use, light performance, and lifecycle cost of street lighting upgrades for the most common road configurations. Provides a quick, easy way for government procurement officials to evaluate the quality, efficiency, technical compatibility, and lifetime cost of different street lighting products.

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Chain270 270_Swedish

Environmental Management Council

2016 Life Cycle Cost Tool

http://www.sustainable-procurement.org/fileadmin/templates/sp_platform/lib/sp_platform_resources//tools/push_resource_file.php?uid=848425e8; https://www.upphandlingsmyndigheten.se/en/subject-areas/lcc-tools/

Tools to estimate the Life cycle costs; general tool as well as a tool for lighting, vending machines, and household appliances

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271 271_DOE Flex Fuel Cost Calculator

http://www.afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/flexible_fuel.html?0/E85/; https://afdc.energy.gov/widget/calc/Flex%20Fuel/

Calculators the cost and emissions of flex fuel vehicles compared to gasoline vehicles. Calculator

272 272_DOE and GSA Federal Automotive Statistical Tool (FAST)

https://fastweb.inel.gov/

Web-based Federal motor vehicle fleet compliance data reporting tool. DOE’s FAST system was developed to assist federal agencies in meeting the data reporting requirements of Executive Order 13149, “Greening the Government Through Federal Fleet and Transportation Efficiency,” The Energy Policy Act of 1992, as amended by the Energy Conservation Reauthorization Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-388), and the General Services Administration’s SF82, “Agency Report of Motor Vehicle Data.” Data collected through the FAST satisfies all of these requirements. DOE compiles inputs annually.

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273 273_GSA Federal Fleet Inventory Tool

https://www.gsa.gov/policy-regulations/policy/vehicle-management-policy/federal-fleet-report

Enables a more robust look into the inventory and operating costs of Federal vehicles. The tool pulls data from the Federal Automotive Statistical Tool (FAST), allowing users and fleet managers to dive into the data in an effort to make better management decisions.

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274 274_EPA 2019 Recycled Content (ReCON) tool

https://www.epa.gov/warm/recycled-content-recon-tool

This tool is designed to assist companies and individuals with evaluating the greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits associated with increasing the recycled content of materials they may purchase or manufacture.

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275 275_EPA 2019 Waste Reduction Model (WARM)

https://www.epa.gov/warm

EPA created the Waste Reduction Model (WARM) to help solid waste planners and organizations track and voluntarily report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions from several different waste management practices. WARM calculates and totals GHG emissions of baseline and alternative waste management practices—source reduction, recycling, combustion, composting, and landfilling. The model calculates emissions in metric tons of carbon equivalent (MTCE), metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2E), and energy units (million BTU) across a wide range of material types commonly found in municipal solid waste (MSW).

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Chain276 276_GEC 2019 Electronics

Environmental Benefits Calculator (EEBC) (EPEAT Calculator)

https://greenelectronicscouncil.org/epeat-benefits-calculator/

The EEBC was developed to assist organizations in estimating the environmental benefits of greening their purchase, use and disposal of electronics.The EEBC estimates the environmental and economic benefits of:- Purchasing Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)-registered products- Enabling power management features on computers and monitors above default percentages- Extending the life of equipment beyond baseline values- Reusing computers, monitors and cell phones- Recycling computers, monitors, cell phones and loads of mixed electronic products

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277 277_EPA 2016 Household Carbon Footprint Calculator

https://www3.epa.gov/carbon-footprint-calculator/

This tool was created for office-based organizations ("offices") located in the United States to assist offices in making decisions to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with their activities. This tool will allow the user to develop an estimate of their GHG emissions from a variety of sources including company-owned vehicle transportation; purchased electricity; waste disposal; and leased assets, franchises, and outsourced activities. It is not intended to address manufacturing operations or service-oriented businesses that use significant quantities of chemicals (e.g., cleaning services).

May be able to use some of the product calcuations

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278 278_EPA 2012 Total Cost of Ownership Calculator Tool for Electronics

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/fec/resources/tco_tool.xlsx

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modeling is a tool that systematically accounts for all costs related to an information technology investment decision. TCO evaluates all costs - direct and indirect - incurred throughout the life-cycle of an IT asset, including acquisition and procurement, operations and maintenance, and end-of-life management.

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279 279_EPA and DOE 1992 ENERGY STAR calculators

http://www.energystar.gov/buildings/facility-owners-and-managers/existing-buildings/save-energy/purchase-energy-saving-products

Excel-based calculator to estimate how much money and energy you can save purchasing ENERGY STAR certified products.

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280 280_EPA 2016 Food Waste Management Cost Calculator

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-01/foodcost3.xls

The Food Waste Management Calculator estimates the cost competitiveness of alternatives to food waste disposal, including source reduction, donation, composting, and recycling of yellow grease. Specifically, the calculator (1) develops an alternative food waste management scenario based on: your waste profile, availability of diversion methods, and preferences; and (2) compares cost estimates for a disposal versus an alternative scenario. The Cost Calculator demonstrates that environmentally and socially responsible food waste management is cost-effective for many facilities and waste streams.

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281 281_EPA Fuel Savings Calculator

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/savemoney.shtml

Measures fuel costs and savings associated with miles per gallon for different vehicles. Calculator

282 282_EPA My Plug-in Hybrid Calculator

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=phev1Prompt

This calculator can help estimate personalized fuel use and costs for a plug-in hybrid based your driving habits, fuel prices, and charging schedule.

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283 283_EPA Trip Calculator http://www.fueleconomy.gov/trip/#?

Calculates fuel used and fuel costs associated with different vehicle options, based on fuel type mpg and fuel price.

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Chain284 284_WRI 2008 Carbon Value

Analysis Tool (CVAT)

http://www.wri.org/publication/carbon-value-analysis-tool-cvat

The Carbon Value Analysis Tool (CVAT) is a screening tool to help companies integrate the value of carbon dioxide emissions reductions into energy-related investment decisions. The tool has two main purposes:1. To test the sensitivity of a project's internal rate of return (IRR) to "carbon value" (the value of GHG emissions reductions). CVAT integrates this value into traditional financial analysis by ascribing a market price, either actual or projected, to carbon emissions reductions.2. To facilitate the development of emissions reduction strategies by developing a Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) across a portfolio of projects. CVAT ranks projects so managers can prioritize them according to their implicit cost per tonne of carbon emission reduction.- CVAT estimates direct and indirect emissions reductions using standards developed by the GHG Protocol Initiative. CVAT can also run a Monte Carlo analysis for key project variables such as carbon value, providing insights into the possible range of a project's IRR.- To analyze a project, CVAT asks for four types of information:1. basic project information,2. some details about the project's design and operation,3. assumptions about future energy prices, and4. foreign exchange rates (for projects denominated in currencies other than US dollars).- CVAT is designed for use by many types of professionals, including project managers, engineers and energy managers in large companies.

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285 285_Northeast Recycling Council (NERC)

2008 NERC Environmental Benefits Calculator

https://nerc.org/documents/fsheets/ma-factsht.html?Green_LinksPage=6

NERC’s Environmental Benefits Calculator (in Microsoft Excel 2003; part of Office Professional Edition 2003) generates estimates of the environmental benefits of a study area, based on the tonnages of materials that are source reduced, reused, recycled, landfilled, or incinerated (includes waste-to-energy). The Calculator is based on per ton figures of the estimated energy use and emissions from several lifecycle analysis studies. The estimates are average figures based on "typical" facilities and operating characteristics existing in the United States. The Calculator incorporates U.S. EPA's most recent WARM Calculator, as well as facts and figures from the U.S. Department of Energy, Steel Recycling Institute, Glass Packaging Institute, and U.S. Climate Technology Cooperation Gateway, to name a few. More facts and figures can be found cited throughout the Calculator.

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286 286_DOD 2016 SCLA (Sustainability Life Cycle Assessment) Tool

http://www.saferalternatives.org/assets/documents/2016-03-10-AAWebinar-Slides.pdf

This tool was designed to help evaluators of alternatives (defense systems) conduct a streamlined life cycle assessment (SLCA), as documented in the Department of Defense Guidance "Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment Process for Evaluating Sustainability in DoD Acquisitions". It is important to note that the results of this SLCA, as detailed in the Guidance, are presented as relative values - meaning in comparison to all other alternatives - and should not be interpreted as absolute values for individual alternatives. Thus, this tool is only intended for comparative analyses between two or more alternatives.

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287 287_Topten 2019 Topten Pro https://www.topten.eu/private/page/pro

European web portal helping buyers, professionals, public procurers and large buyers to procure the most energy efficient products available in Europe. Simple to follow guidance based on public procurement rules, Topten Pro guidelines display criteria that can be inserted directly into tender documents, in order to buy the most energy efficient products on the market.

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288 288_World Bank 2019 Sustainable Procurement Guide

http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/788731479395390605/Guidance-on-Sustainable-Procurement.pdf

This Guidance is written for World Bank (Bank) staff and Borrowers responsible for implementing Bank Investment Project Financing (IPF). It provides an introduction to public sector sustainable procurement. It gives practical how-to advice and supports good sustainable procurement practice. It informs practitioners how to include sustainable factors into procurement processes, as well as providing incentives for vendors to offer more sustainable products and services. The content of this guidance is non-mandatory and is provided as illustrating good practice only.

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Chain289 289_EIU and UNOPS 2020 The Future of

Public Spending: Why the way we spend is critical to the Sustainable Development Goals


Investigates the potential for less wasteful, more efficient government spending practices to help address a critical spending gap that countries face in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and how social, environmental and economic sustainability objectives can be achieved through procurement.

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290 290_IFAC 2020 Sustainable Development Goals Disclosure (SDGD) Recommendations

https://www.ifac.org/knowledge-gateway/contributing-global-economy/publications/sustainable-development-goals-disclosure-sdgd-recommendations?utm_source=IFAC%20Main%20List&utm_campaign=386cb78202-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_17_01_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cc08d67019-386cb78202-80485275

Reinforces the use of the SDG framework for integrated reporting. Offer a new approach for businesses and other organisations to address sustainable development issues aligned to the three most influential and popular reporting frameworks. They attempt to establish a best practice for corporate reporting on the SDGs and enable more effective and standardized reporting and transparency on climate change, social and other environmental impacts.The SDGD Recommendations call on organisations to consider sustainable development risks and opportunities relevant to their long term value creation strategy and communicate the actual or potential impacts on achievement of the SDGs. This will require relevant and material disclosures about the factors that influence long term value creation (or destruction) for the organisation and society or that have an impact (positive of negative) on the achievement of the SDGs in the annual report. These Recommendations are built upon a suggested five-step approach for contributing to the SDGs aligned with long-term value creation. Responses to the consultation have been published in Sustainable Development Goals Disclosure (SDGD) Recommendations: Feedback on the consultation . They show strong support for alignment of SDGD Recommendations with other key reporting frameworks/standards (those of the Task force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, the Global Reporting Initiative and the International Integrated Reporting Council). Respondents agreed that accountability for value destruction and negative impacts are critical.

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291 291_Volans 2020 Procuring a Regenerative Economy

https://volans.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Procuring-a-Regenerative-Economy-FINAL.pdf

Provides support for strategy to use sustainable procurement “as a catalyst for the development of a regenerative economy." A contribution towards the Tomorrow’s Capitalism Inquiry, which seeks to identify practical pathways towards a future in which markets incentivise economic, social and environmental regeneration. Challenges procurement/business leaders to shift their approach in service of a more responsible,resilient and – ultimately – regenerative economy. Explores the powerful role that purchasing can play as a catalyst for the development of a regenerative economy.

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