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Hidden in Plain Sight: The EcoVadis Documentation Gaps Costing You Points

Written by The transformacy Team

EcoVadis scores aren't decided by what you do. They're decided by what you can prove.

Most businesses going through assessment are doing far more sustainability work than their score reflects. The gap between the two is almost always documentation. Evidence that doesn't quite meet the threshold. Policies without quantative targets. Frameworks referenced but not formally aligned with. The work exists. The points don't.

And the bar is moving. EcoVadis now weights public disclosure more heavily than internal documents, expects formal compliance with frameworks like GRI and ESRS rather than passing reference, and operates a percentile-based scoring system.

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What you’ll learn in the webinar: 

  • Where points quietly slip away. The evidence requirements businesses most often miss and the documentation patterns that show up again and again in underperforming scores.

  • Framework alignment vs framework reference. How EcoVadis is now distinguishing between businesses that reference GRI, ESRS or ISO standards and those formally aligned with them, and why that distinction is now worth real points.

  • The rising threshold problem. What the move to percentile-based scoring means in practice, and why last year's documentation may not hold this year's medal.

  • What strong evidence actually looks like. The traits of documentation that consistently scores well, and the patterns that flag a weak submission to assessors.