The EcoVadis sustainability audit evaluates environmental impact, labour and human-rights practices, ethics, and sustainable procurement. Moreover, each company receives a customised questionnaire adapted to its size, location, and sector.
Ecovadis Audit
As an EcoVadis sustainability consultancy with extensive experience in Corporate Social Responsibility, we can help you achieve the highest possible score in your EcoVadis audit. This involves:
- Comprehensive guidance for completing the EcoVadis questionnaire, including the collection and structuring of all CSR-related information.
- Completing the evidence-based EcoVadis assessment through the EcoVadis platform. This evaluation provides scores from 0 to 100 and, when applicable, EcoVadis medals (Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum). Moreover, we advise you throughout the entire process to help you significantly improve your score.
- Developing the required policies and procedures that document the system used to comply with EcoVadis requirements.
- Designing science-based targets (SBT), including an action plan aligned with climate science to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with global warming-limitation objectives.
- Consultancy to achieve EcoVadis certification and prepare your Social Responsibility Report in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) requirements.
With more than five years of experience supporting companies in their EcoVadis evaluations, our track record and success cases speak for themselves.
What Does the EcoVadis Audit Provide?
Achieving a sustainability rating through an EcoVadis audit provides your organisation with:
- Increased sales opportunities and enhanced reputation, as the sustainability rating is recognised across all types of companies—large or small, public or private.
- Clear visibility of your sustainability performance, since you can compare your score with sector benchmarks. Consequently, this strengthens stakeholder engagement and promotes continuous improvement toward global best practices.
- More sustainable procurement decisions, while also encouraging your commercial partners to align with your sustainability practices.
- Greater transparency and reduced corporate risks, positively influencing your environment and fostering innovation.
- Stronger supplier sustainability, using purchasing influence to drive partners beyond simple compliance and towards genuine responsible practices.
FAQs on EcoVadis Certification
What Is EcoVadis?
The EcoVadis certificate is an international assessment that rates a company’s sustainability performance through the ecovadis.com platform. It evaluates environmental impact, labour and human-rights practices, ethics, and sustainable procurement. Moreover, these criteria are based on global sustainability standards such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions, GRI sustainability reporting standards, IQNet SR10, Forética’s SGE21, and ISO 26001.
EcoVadis is designed to support continuous improvement in sustainability and to promote transparency towards customers.
EcoVadis Certification
To obtain EcoVadis certification, you must follow these steps:
- Register on the EcoVadis platform. If you wish, we can help you achieve the highest possible score.
- Prepare all required documentation, including the policies, procedures, and records requested by EcoVadis.
- Complete the EcoVadis questionnaire, which varies depending on the company’s size, location, and sector. It typically covers four main themes: Environment, Carbon Footprint and GHG Emissions, Labour and Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. Once submitted online, your answers are evaluated through the audit.
- EcoVadis Audit. This is where your final EcoVadis rating is communicated: Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze. The EcoVadis recognition demonstrates your commitment to sustainability and continuous improvement to business partners and stakeholders.
EcoVadis medals are valid for one year, after which companies must undergo a new evaluation.
EcoVadis Consultants
As a sustainability consultancy, EmasConsultors is the best EcoVadis consulting partner to help you obtain EcoVadis certification, thanks to:
- Our more than 20 years of CSR consulting experience across multiple sectors, supporting organisations in achieving strong EcoVadis performance.
- Full adaptation to each client, as we listen carefully to your needs and deliver a proposal tailored to your company’s reality. We work with all sectors and company sizes.
- Guaranteed success, since our extensive experience enables us to ensure a very strong EcoVadis score, significantly enhancing your reputation with customers.
- Proven CSR expertise in leading Social Responsibility standards such as EcoVadis, SMETA, IQNet SR10, GRI Reporting, and CSRD.
Contact us—we are the EcoVadis consultants you should choose, whether you are in Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, Valencia, or any other location.
EcoVadis Platform
The EcoVadis platform is the website where all actions are managed—from completing the questionnaire to obtaining EcoVadis certification. Moreover, as EcoVadis sustainability consultants, we assist you throughout the entire process to ensure you successfully pass the EcoVadis audit.
EcoVadis Audit Success Stories
We have numerous EcoVadis success stories, including EcoVadis Barcelona with RedNess (textile), MAITSA (freight forwarder), Arsel Group (security and facilities), and Ebader (travel-retail furniture); EcoVadis Girona with Max Plastic (plastic solutions); EcoVadis Madrid with Onet Ibérica (cleaning services); and EcoVadis Spain with PAPRIMUR. Moreover, these projects demonstrate our strong expertise across multiple sectors and locations.