Reviewing and updating an approach to evaluate sustainability certifications
Summary
The client had a high profile sustainability strategy some of which is delivered through the use of sustainability certifications. To ensure that certification met criteria that aligned with the company’s sustainability strategy the client required support to review, critique and redesign their approach to evaluating sustainability certifications.
How we helped
Little Blue Research provided a review of the client’s current approach to the evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of different sustainability and ecocertifications. The team were tasked with providing a series of recommendations and suggesting how the evaluation approach could be redesigned based on the
findings of the review.
Client description
Confidential
Confidential
Case study details
Evidencing impact & green claims: peer review
Standards and certifications
Global
Capital(s)
Challenges
• Developing objective criteria to allow for consistent evaluation of certifications
• Adapting the evaluation approach to account for a range of environmental and socially-focused frameworks
Outcomes
• Recommendations for redesigning the certification evaluation approach and the
provision of a evaluation template with scoring.
• A roadmap for suggested future updates to the certification evaluation approach.
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