Several standards have been developed for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainably:

• ISO 26000
  this is the international guidance for the social responsibility of companies and organisations
• CSR Performance Ladder
  this is a Dutch standard based on ISO 26000
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  these goals have been drawn up by the United Nations

These standards focus on the environment and climate as well as on social and social-economic topics (like employment).

Part of meeting these standards concerns formulating sustainability indicators and setting quantifiable, measurable sustainability targets. By doing so you make the impact of your company/organisation and the improvement in its scores visible.

The Envirometer helps you with:

• Selecting measurable environmental indicators
• Selecting measurable social and socio-economic indicators
• Monitoring progress toward achieving your targets
• Communicating internally and externally about your scores

Selecting measurable environmental indicators

The first step is to understand the environmental impact and carbon footprint of your company/organisation. The Envirometer provides this insight, allowing you to more quickly choose the right environmental indicators to evaluate progress.

These are the steps you need to take:

• Enter amounts relating to energy, water, waste and transport in the Envirometer.
• The results are visualised in the environmental data charts.

Donut chart of your environmental impact

Selecting environmental indicators

Selecting measurable social and socio-economic indicators

Social and socio-economic indicators are often more difficult to determine than environmental indicators. To help you get started, the Envirometer contains a list of social and socio-economic indicators for which you can enter the data yourself.

These are the steps you need to take:

• Select relevant topics from a list of suggestions.
• Adjust and add sustainability indicators.
• Collect data to determine your baseline measurement for the indicators.

Select relevant social/socio-economic indicators

Monitoring progress toward achieving your targets

You determine your ambition for each selected sustainability indicator and, after entering your data, the Envirometer automatically creates colourful goal-line charts for your scores compared to your targets. All your scores are summarised on a target dashboard.

Goal-line charts with traffic light colours

Target dashboard

Communicating internally and externally about your scores

Transparency is an important principle in CSR and corporate sustainability. The Envirometer offers several options to communicate and publish your sustainability scores:

• You can download individual data visuals (in PDF, PNG or HTML) to include in your report or on your webpage.
• You can download a PDF report with a selection of data visuals.

Sustainability and CSR tips and guide

You will find helpful tips in:

• Ten tips on sustainability goals to help you compile a useful set of sustainability indicators.
• Stimular’s Guide to CSR with tips and practical examples