By influencing the behaviour of your suppliers towards the environment, you can shape a more sustainable way of doing business.
When purchasing new equipment, choose items that are certified as energy efficient and consider the equipments' life-cycle costs in your buying decision process.
All furniture, fixtures and fittings have socio-economic and environmental impacts associated with their manufacture, use and disposal. By considering these issues as part of the purchasing process, you can greatly reduce your overall environmental impact.
Some energy efficient certifications:
- Energy Star (US)
- European Energy Label (EU)
Givvable is an automated data platform that helps organisations understand the sustainability profile of their suppliers and supply chain. It captures, tracks and reports on the credentials of suppliers, that are the strongest indicators of whether a supplier is taking action on sustainability. Givvable covers local to global and SME to MNC suppliers, ensuring it has the widest coverage of supplier sustainability data globally.
Givvable will help you:
EcoVadis rates more than 100,000 businesses on their sustainability performance, which helps improve the sustainability performance of global supply chains.