Sustainability terms, in plain language.
Short definitions that say what each term means and why it matters, whether you met it in a report, a customer request, or your own reading. No jargon explaining jargon.
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Carbon Reduction Plan (UK procurement)
A UK Carbon Reduction Plan is a supplier's published PPN 006 statement of its emissions, net-zero commitment, reduction targets, completed and planned measures, and senior approval for specified central government procurements.
Chain of custody for sustainability claims
A sustainability chain of custody sets the rules for carrying a defined material characteristic through purchases, processing and sales, including what may be mixed, how quantities are converted and which claim the records support.
Supplier code of conduct
A supplier code of conduct sets the labour, health and safety, environmental, ethics, record-keeping, and subcontractor rules a buyer expects its suppliers to follow and be able to prove.
Supplier engagement target
A supplier engagement target commits a company to having a defined share of suppliers, measured by spend or value-chain emissions, complete a specified sustainability action by a target date.
Supplier self-assessment questionnaire (SAQ)
A supplier self-assessment questionnaire (SAQ) is a supplier-completed form that tests named environmental, labour, ethics and governance practices against supporting documents for a specific company or site.
Sustainability assurance
Sustainability assurance is an independent assessment of defined sustainability information against named criteria, ending in a report that states the provider's conclusion and level of assurance.
Sustainability contract clause
A sustainability contract clause makes environmental or social duties binding in a commercial agreement by defining the required data, targets, records, reporting dates, cooperation and remedies.
Sustainability criterion in a tender
A sustainability criterion in a tender is a scored or pass-fail environmental or social requirement that a bidder must answer and support before a buyer awards the contract.
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