Elevate Your Environmental Performance with Sedex's Environment Self -Assessment Questionnaire
Tomas Novotny
Sustainability Expert
Thursday, 15 August 2024
About 3 minutes
For years, Sedex has been a leader in empowering businesses to achieve their social and environmental goals. We’ve helped countless organisations gain deep insights into their supply chain. Now, we’re excited to announce a significant expansion of our environmental capabilities with the introduction of the Environment Self-Assessment Questionnaire (ESAQ).
Deepening our environmental commitment
The ESAQ reflects Sedex’s commitment to continually evolve and meet the ever-growing demand for robust environmental data within supply chains. This new tool builds upon our existing expertise, providing a comprehensive solution for holistic sustainability management.
Why develop an ESAQ?
The ESAQ addresses the critical need for standardised and structured environmental assessments, ensuring consistent and comparable data across your supplier base. This streamlined approach saves you time and effort by centralising social and environmental data collection and analysis within a single, user-friendly platform.
Key benefits
- Time and effort savings: Streamline the process of collecting social and environmental data from your suppliers within one platform, reducing administrative burdens.
- Consistent framework: Employ a standardised assessment method to evaluate environmental performance consistently.
- Regulatory compliance: Align data collection with key global frameworks (SBTi, CDP, ISSB) and regulations (SB-253, SB-261, CSRD, LkSG, CSDDD)
- Supplier insights: Gain a deeper understanding of your suppliers’ environmental maturity.
- Support and guidance: Help your suppliers track and improve their environmental performance.
- Integrated data analysis: The ESAQ is part of the Sedex platform, allowing for seamless comparison with other SAQ data across ESG topics. This integration provides comprehensive insights and supports decision-making through tools like Radar and Analytics. (Coming Winter 2024)
What will your business gain?
The ESAQ provides valuable insights into your suppliers’ environmental practices, helping you identify areas for improvement and track your progress towards environmental targets. It equips you with the data needed to make informed decisions and drive your sustainability initiatives forward. Learn more in our blog about how you can enhance supply chain sustainability with environmental data.
Collect comprehensive environmental data
With the ESAQ, you can gather a wide range of environmental data from your suppliers, including:
- Environmental commitments (policies, targets, and measures)
- Compliance with relevant national and local laws
- Permits and licensing
- Management systems and processes
- Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3)
- Waste, energy, chemical, air pollution and water management
- Biodiversity and deforestation data
Overcome common challenges
The ESAQ is designed to help you overcome common obstacles in environmental data collection and management:
- Supplier transparency: Address challenges in obtaining comprehensive environmental information from suppliers with our standardised question methodology.
- Data accessibility: Improve access to and integration of disparate supplier data into one centralised platform for analysis.
- Resource constraints: Mitigate limitations in internal capabilities and resources for effective data management by providing a user-friendly platform that streamlines data collection and reporting processes.
- Regulatory compliance: Navigate complex and evolving environmental regulations with greater ease by aligning your data collection with key regulatory requirements and reporting standards.
- Data quality: Improve the accuracy and reliability of supplier-provided data through consistent reporting practices.
Join us in building a more sustainable future
The ESAQ marks a significant step forward for Sedex and our commitment to environmental sustainability within supply chains. Contact our team or your Account Manager to learn more about how Sedex can support your organisation’s social and environmental goals.
