The UK and Australia each passed their modern slavery acts and Canada is the latest country to follow suit. The legislation is aimed at tackling the issue of child labor and forced labor within global supply chains – an industry that generates $236 billion per year and entraps millions.
In this guide, we take a look at this regulation and what it means for those who do business in Canada.
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Welcome to the 9th edition of the EcoVadis Global Supply Chain Sustainability Risk & Performance Index, covering 49,000 ratings conducted in 2024 and 159,000 since 2020.
The 2025 U.S. Business Sustainability Landscape Outlook gathered insights from 400 U.S. executives at companies with over $1billion in revenue, across industries including consumer, industrial, techno
Cut Scope 3 emissions, reduce costs and build resilience with EcoVadis’ 3-step framework for supply chain decarbonization — powered by reliable carbon data and targeted supplier engagement.
Self-assessment questionnaire (SAQ) models have long been failing both sides of the supply chain. Buyers struggle with poor data quality, hidden risks and systems that can’t scale.
Is your supply chain at risk? Modern slavery is a global crisis, but businesses can fight back. This guide provides a practical four-step framework for eradicating exploitation.
This ebook showcases EcoVadis' proven four-step framework for building a more resilient supply chain. You'll gain insights into the tools and capabilities needed to navigate today's risk landscape.
We outline what is known about the Omnibus Simplification Package, the potential implications for sustainability reporting and due diligence, and what businesses should consider to remain prepared.
This ebook explores four major supply chain risks reshaping business in 2025 – and why ESG visibility is key to resilience, compliance and smarter supplier due diligence in a hyper-risk world
This guide helps EcoVadis customers leverage data from the EcoVadis Ratings Platform to answer key supply chain questions in THESIS assessments.
This report explores the collaborative decarbonization progress being made by leading companies and 22,000 suppliers rated multiple times through the EcoVadis Carbon Action Manager since its launch.
The accelerating biodiversity crisis is threatening global value chains. Here we explore how companies are addressing it by using nature-based solutions to protect ecosystems and enhance performance.
Learn how leaders are delivering on sustainability and scope 3 decarbonization goals while driving long-term resilience, competitive differentiation and measurable ROI.
Learn how to conduct a CSRD-compliant double materiality analysis with this step-by-step guide.
This ebook explores four major supply chain risks reshaping business in 2025 – and why ESG visibility is key to resilience, compliance and smarter supplier due diligence in a hyper-risk world.
Discover how EcoVadis helps procurement teams manage ESG risk, supplier compliance, and sustainability goals in this Spend Matters analysis.
This report highlights how EcoVadis is helping companies worldwide accelerate the sustainability transformation—and how these efforts are enabling us to drive progress on our four purpose objectives.
This ebook explores how more than 125 chemical companies and their procurement teams are using EcoVadis solutions to assess the sustainability performance of their suppliers and drive improvement.
With data from 125,000+ supplier sustainability ratings since 2019 (38,000 in 2023 alone), the Index reveals supply chain ESG insights that procurement teams can gain across regions & industries.
In this report, our first ever, we aim to be fully transparent about the journey toward our purpose, highlighting not only our successes but also our challenges.
This report explores how we are collaborating with the 1,200 buyers and more than 130,000 suppliers in our network to accelerate sustainable change and scale positive social and environmental impact.
