Kickstart your Supplier Climate Intelligence
with the right plan

In order to make a quick start in climate transformation, small and medium-sized companies in particular often still lack the appropriate know-how and resources. This is where the Climate Readiness Check comes into play and helps with a free and secure self-test of the climate maturity of one’s own company. It is accessible to companies of all sizes and industries, can be completed in less than 5 minutes, and offers initial insights as well as benchmarks and quick wins for improvement.

The Climate Performance Assessment (CPA) assesses companies on their strengths, opportunities, risks and potential issues with respect to climate change.

It is based on recognised global reporting standards such as the TCFD, SBTi, GRI and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, and implemented as a structured questionnaire encompassing climate-related topics of key importance.

Through validating and analyzing the primary data collected in the assessment, we calculate a Climate Performance Rating, which gives an overview of the performance in the assessment. The primary data is also used for producing a range of benchmarking scores and related insights, giving the relative performance of the company against its peers, particularly within a company’s supply chain.

The CPA is suitable for companies numbering above 50 employees across all industries. However, it should only be used to assess companies, and not facilities, company groups or other levels of inquiry. If you would like to assess these, please contact us and we can provide the appropriate assessment for that purpose.

The time taken to complete the assessment varies between companies but typically can take anywhere from between 60 to 180 minutes.

The Climate Intelligence Platform enables enterprises to manage climate-relevant supplier data through a secure and efficient SaaS technology. The software tool provides validated data on suppliers’ climate maturity across key impact dimensions: Governance, Strategy, Transparency, Metrics & Targets and Decarbonization Measures. Via individual Climate Scorecards the platform maps the supplier data to the latest reporting requirements, ensuring integrity and reliable climate strategies while transitioning into a low carbon economy.

The corporate carbon footprint is a great starting point for climate transformation and amongst the most important indicators for measuring a company’s direct climate impact. However, you should have in mind that measured CO₂ emissions are backward-looking, a so-called “lagging KPI”, and only indicate what happened in the past. For a holistic understanding of the company’s climate performance, you instead also want to target future climate potentials and risks, and therefore have to focus on forward-looking metrics, so-called “leading KPIs”. These are part of the following areas: Governance, Strategy, Transparency, Metrics & Targets and Decarbonization Measures. These dimensions draw a picture of the direction a company will most likely steer towards over the next few years, and help you to holistically assess the real progress of your company’s and your supply chain’s climate transformation.

The Climate Performance Assessment asks companies whether they have calculated their corporate carbon footprint and, if so, what the result was. However, we do not offer the carbon accounting services ourselves, but if required, we are happy to refer you to one of our partners.

Successful climate transformation requires real change and innovation in your organization. Setting up a climate management system allows you to continuously improve your company’s climate performance.

The Climate Performance Assessment assesses the holistic climate management maturity of your company and its compliance with globally recognized climate reporting standards – focusing on all 5 critical dimensions of a company’s climate performance: Governance, Strategy, Transparency, Metrics & KPIs and Decarbonization Actions.

Your individual Climate Scorecard conveys benchmarks and recommendations in each of the 5 dimensions. These enable you to take immediate actions in order to continuously improve your company’s climate performance, based on a plan-do-check-act (PDCA) management cycle.