How green can you be? October 19, 2026 By Seawork Press IB Eminox. Exhaust emissions technology firm Eminox has announced a new partnership with EcoVadis, a French sustainability ratings platform designer that has a subsidiary in London. Eminox says it is working with Paris-based EcoVadis, which it says 'provides a globally recognised framework for evaluating sustainability performance across areas including environmental, social, ethical and supply chain practices'. Lincolnshire-based Eminox says the deal has come about following growing expectations from customers, partners and other stakeholders for businesses to demonstrate their sustainability performance.

Making lasting change: inside Stok's 2025 Impact Report. Tavia Danch Transparent ESG reporting enhances stakeholder trust while driving action. A recent study even found that sustainability report readers read sustainability disclosures as much as financial disclosures and interact more with sustainability information. As a small business and consultants who guide organizations through ESG program development and implementation, reporting is one part of a much bigger question: how can a strong ESG program protect and create value for its business while helping Stok deliver greater value for its clients and stakeholders? WHAT'S THE VALUE OF AN ESG STRATEGY AND ROADMAP? Building strategy, systems, and accountability into an ESG roadmap makes reporting possible and enables organizations to use what they learn to make smarter investments for greater impact. An ESG strategy and roadmap create value by: * Aligning sustainability efforts with strategic business priorities. * Streamlining resources to the most material topics driving business and stakeholder value. * Developing a baseline of existing ESG performance to track future progress and develop the business case and ROI narrative. * Streamlining KPIs to reduce data tracking efforts to only the most crucial and value-add information. * Developing clear and consistent reporting metrics to communicate to all parties responsible for tracking and reporting. Stok's services for ESG program implementation. Repeat steps one through four every three to five years. Stok's lessons learned along its ESG journey. Listen to stakeholders to focus on what matters most. To establish a strong foundation for its ESG strategy, Stok conducted a competitor analysis, evaluated its alignment with leading ESG frameworks, and completed a materiality assessment. Stok conducted extensive stakeholder interviews and engagement activities across the business to gather diverse perspectives and better understand stakeholder expectations. These insights helped align its priorities with the issues that matter most to its stakeholders, its operations, and its long-term success. Use frameworks to set targets, shape strategy, and meet evolving stakeholder expectations. Stok's early ESG initiatives were largely shaped by Stok's strategic vision, reporting through its B Corp certification and Just label, and an embodiment of its core value to demand better. As Stok began to mature its ESG strategy, Stok selected EcoVadis as a framework to assess its current state, identify priorities alongside its materiality assessment, benchmark performance, and measure progress over time. One driver of its decision to use EcoVadis was a request by a major client partner. Additionally, from its firsthand experience with navigating clients through the framework, Stok consider it a top global supplier sustainability rating method that can provide its clients and partners with an independent, credible assessment of its performance. An EcoVadis ranking helps strengthen its market position as a sustainability consultant whose clients use impact reporting to evaluate suppliers in alignment with their own sustainability commitments. Stok began with a gap assessment with extensive cross-functional team engagement. Its gap assessment provided actionable recommendations that informed its ESG roadmap, while stakeholder engagement helped Stok identify and connect initiatives already underway across the organization. By documenting existing practices and accomplishments, Stok strengthened its ESG story and developed its 2025 Impact Report. The report provides a comprehensive view of its progress, supports its upcoming EcoVadis submission, and helps Stok meet evolving stakeholder expectations. More importantly, the process demonstrated how a framework can go beyond a reporting exercise to serve as a catalyst for alignment, action, and continuous improvement. Turn ambition into action with a roadmap. A roadmap acts as a planning tool that turns long-term goals into actionable initiatives across the organization. By engaging with business units throughout the planning process, teams can identify opportunities, align priorities, and verify that ESG initiatives are incorporated into annual work plans and budgets to create an actionable ESG roadmap. During its most recent gap assessment, Stok identified several opportunities related to strengthening its employee health and safety practices, as well as improving its sustainable procurement approach. Stok worked with the responsible team members to sort opportunities by level of effort: quick wins Stok could implement immediately, and larger initiatives to build into next year's budget and planning. The roadmap also helps Stok understand the resources, expertise, and collaboration needed to successfully implement initiatives. By aligning these priorities with business objectives, Stok create opportunities for team members across the organization to contribute to, build ownership within, and continuously improve its program. Focus on standardized, comparable metrics that matter. EcoVadis helps Stok measure and track progress on its sustainability journey through a standardized assessment framework and industry-specific benchmarking. The assessment provides a clear view of its performance relative to peers, helping Stok identify strengths and opportunities for improvement while prioritizing the actions that can drive the greatest impact. It also helps Stok stay informed about evolving stakeholder expectations and emerging sustainability trends within its industry, keeping its strategy focused, relevant, and aligned with what matters most to its clients and stakeholders rather than trying to track and report on everything. Share progress through reporting. Its materiality assessment and EcoVadis gap assessment helped shape the content and focus of its impact report. Together, they informed the topics most important to its stakeholders and its business, enabling Stok to tell a more meaningful and strategic story about who Stok is, its culture, and its commitment to creating a radically better world for all. Making lasting change with stok impact. Inside Stok's 2025 Impact Report, you'll discover some of its proudest recent achievements - aligned with the priorities of Stok team members and its external stakeholders - including: 2025 Impact by the numbers. Carbon Neutral Stok has achieved carbon neutrality across Scopes 1, 2, and 3 with the support of RECs and verified carbon credits and has committed to continue operating as a carbon-neutral company into the future. Learn more about Stok's approach to carbon neutrality. 4 % Reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions from the 2023 baseline* 2 Carbon credit projects investments 81 % Stok team member engagement score 2665 Learning and Development hours used 91 % Of stok team members acquired new skills through the Individual Learning Plan program 550 Dedicated volunteer hours used by Stok team members to serve the communities and causes they care about 3.7 % Of Stok's annual net operating income donated 3 Pro bono projects completed *Before application of its market-based mechanisms, including renewable energy certificates (RECs) and carbon credits. You'll learn about the goals, programs, and initiatives behind the numbers, like Stok's science-based targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi); its fourth annual greenhouse gas inventory and first decarb audit; an expanded Pro Bono Professional Services program and reimagined charitable giving programs; newly launched decarbonization and data center task forces to strengthen the value Stok deliver to clients; and evolved core values to guide Stok as Stok strive toward its commitment to a radically better world for all. Read THE report. Its goal for impact at Stok includes remaining committed to an ESG program that is credible, measurable, continuously improving, and aligned with its purpose to boldly catalyze an environmentally restorative and socially equitable world. Stok has been proud to undertake the same journey toward meaningful, measured impact that Stok help its clients navigate. Up next, Stok is excited to submit its first EcoVadis submission in 2026 and use the insights to strengthen its strategic roadmap and shape investments in its program. Stok's latest impact report shares its continued progress toward a radically better world for all. Read the full Stok 2025 Impact Report. Explore Stok's 2025 Impact Report.

EcoVadis' Pierre-François Thaler on scaling Scope 3 cuts. September 22, 2026 Pierre-François Thaler, Co-CEO at EcoVadis, tells Sustainability LIVE how global enterprises are transitioning to actionable value-chain decarbonisation With increased scrutiny from international climate disclosures, Scope 3 reporting mandates and stricter supply chain regulations, sustainable procurement has evolved from a corporate social responsibility initiative to a core operational discipline. At Sustainability LIVE during Climate Week NYC, Pierre-François Thaler, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of EcoVadis, explained how global enterprises are moving from transactional compliance to actionable value-chain decarbonisation. In his sessions, Pierre-François emphasised strategies to scale Scope 3 decarbonisation and advance supplier networks beyond basic questionnaires. Pierre-François added that meaningful change in deep-tier supply networks requires a clear roadmap for suppliers. For global sustainability, ratings should drive continuous improvement and build institutional capacity. Building the architecture of sustainable procurement. Pierre-François has over 25 years of experience in procurement, technology, and business development. An electrical engineer with a Master of Science from CentraleSupélec and an MBA from INSEAD, he began his career at the intersection of enterprise software and operational procurement. * Early B2B Platforms: Served as CEO of B2Build SA, establishing Europe's first business-to-business marketplace dedicated to the construction sector. * Ariba (EMEA): Managed Ariba's Procurement BPO business across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, gaining direct insight into enterprise supply chain vulnerabilities and purchasing architectures. * EcoVadis (2007-Present): Co-founded EcoVadis with Frédéric Trinel. Under their leadership, the company grew from a startup to a tech unicorn valued at over US$1bn, earning four consecutive recognitions on the French Tech Next40 index. Pierre-François is recognised as a pioneer in sustainable procurement. He has co-authored research with academic institutions such as INSEAD and HEC Paris, and serves on the strategic advisory board of the Sustainable Procurement Leadership Council in Washington, DC. "Having Pierre-François Thaler on-site at Sustainability LIVE @ Climate Week NYC for the second successive year shows his energy, ambition and desire to support the team in its endeavours to become the ultimate global sustainability ratings platform," says Glen White, CEO of BizClik and Sustainability Magazine; Founder & Organiser of Sustainability LIVE. EcoVadis delivers trusted business sustainability ratings, intelligence, and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains. The platform uses evidence-based assessments to rate organisations across 21 sustainability criteria, organised under four key themes: * Environment * Labour and human rights * Ethics * Sustainable procurement. EcoVadis aligns its methodologies with global standards such as the UN Global Compact, ISO 26000 and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). This approach gives enterprises standardised scorecards, enabling international comparisons of supplier risks, carbon performance and ESG practices. EcoVadis at a Glance * Founded: 2007 * Global valuation: US$1bn+ * Reach: Over 150,000 rated companies across 185+ countries * Active rated subscribers: 100,000+ Strategic alliances: driving ecosystem scale. EcoVadis leverages a global network of strategic consulting and technology partners to turn supply chain intelligence into operational change. By combining EcoVadis' ESG risk data and supplier scorecards with Kearney's procurement and supply chain expertise, the partnership enables Fortune Global 500 clients to: * Embed ESG into Strategic Sourcing: Move green procurement parameters directly into RFP execution, category strategy, and supplier performance management. * Accelerate Scope 3 Decarbonisation: Identify emissions hotspots deep within multi-tier value chains and implement targeted supplier enablement playbooks. * Ensure Regulatory Preparedness: Prepare complex supply networks for evolving mandatory due diligence legislation, such as the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and Supply Chain Act requirements. Through partnerships with global leaders such as Kearney, EcoVadis connects corporate ESG commitments with the daily purchasing decisions of procurement teams worldwide. Company Portals