What’s up in other sectors?

What’s up in other sectors, outside ‘events’, in terms of ESG reporting?

 

The pattern is consistent across sectors

In every major industry, the same journey is playing out: voluntary ESG reporting → procurement pressure → regulatory mandate → structured data infrastructure, becoming commercially essential.

Yes, there’s a mixture of performance management and accreditations in here… read the arguments for & against each here.

 

Automotive

CDP runs the dominant supply chain emissions disclosure platform. BMW, Volkswagen and Toyota require tier-1 and tier-2 suppliers to disclose through CDP. It’s essentially become the de facto ESG data layer for automotive supply chains globally.

EcoVadis originated largely in automotive and manufacturing — Renault, PSA and Schneider Electric were early adopters. It scores suppliers on E, S, G and ethics, and is now used by 100,000+ companies across sectors. (60% of the UK’s Power 30 Most Sustainable Agencies hold an EcoVadis accreditation)

Catena-X is an automotive-specific data ecosystem — a consortium including BMW, Mercedes, Bosch and BASF – built partly to standardise carbon footprint data across the automotive supply chain.

 

Consumer goods / retail

Sedex (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) is the dominant platform with over 75,000 members sharing supply chain ESG data, particularly on labour standards. Used heavily by Tesco, Unilever and Marks & Spencer.

HowGood provides ingredient and product-level sustainability scoring for consumer food and beverage brands, used by major retailers to assess and compare product ESG performance at SKU (barcode) level.

The Sustainability Consortium produces THESIS scorecards used by Walmart to measure supplier sustainability performance across product categories.

 

Food & Beverage

Foodsteps does for F&B what Track does for events – carbon footprinting at product and menu level, used by Compass Group, Sodexo and independent restaurants.

Klimato helps sustainability teams turn food and purchase data into credible Scope 1–3 reporting—structured, traceable, and ready for real scrutiny – at consumer menu level.

Foundation Earth runs an eco-label scoring system for food products sold in retail, rating environmental impact across the supply chain.

ProTerra and Rainforest Alliance operate certification and data systems for agricultural supply chains,  offee, cocoa, soy, with commercial consequences for brands that can or can’t demonstrate responsible sourcing.

 

Aviation

CORSIA (Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation) is the ICAO-mandated framework – every airline operating international routes must measure and offset emissions above a baseline.

RightShip and Verifavia provide emissions verification for aviation and maritime, turning compliance data into commercial credentials.

 

Financial services

MSCI ESG Ratings, Sustainalytics (Morningstar), Refinitiv ESG Scores and Bloomberg ESG Data are all essentially ESG data infrastructure businesses –  scoring companies so that investors can make ESG-aligned capital allocation decisions. Combined they influence trillions in AUM.

 

Construction / real estate

BREEAM (UK) and LEED (US) are the building-level equivalents — certification systems that have become procurement requirements for major occupiers. GRESB benchmarks ESG performance of real estate and infrastructure funds.

What this tells us about event:decision’s position

So the subject matter is consistant – structured data through an ESG lens.

The difference, and the opportunity for the event sector, is that event:decision is product specific, rolling up event performance into how well your company actually performs compared to industry.

EcoVadis, for example scores a venue or an AV company or event agency as a generic supplier. The accreditation has no understanding of what an event actually is, how it performs, what the relevant ESG levers are at event level, or how to benchmark one event against another in the same sector.

event:decision scores your actual output – the output your customer actually receives, and influences future buyer behaviour.

None of those companies existed before their sector needed them. event:decision is building the infrastructure before the event sector fully realises it does.