The benefits and challenges of Sustainable Procurement and how to achieve your goals 

August 26, 2022 EcoVadis EN


As a result of mounting environmental and social challenges affecting the entire globe, many organisations now place sustainability as a priority within their strategic goals. In this landscape, procurement has an enormous role in embedding sustainability into everyday practices and across the wider supply chain. Most of our impact on the environment and communities sits in the supply chain. We cannot become truly sustainable without our suppliers.

Sustainable procurement is an approach to the procurement process that embeds ESG (environmental, social, and governance) issues and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices at the heart of its specifications and process. How can it be achieved? What are some of the benefits and challenges that businesses need to understand?


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