Certification
Sustainability certification that covers key environmental and sustainability issues
Today, simply reporting a carbon footprint is no longer enough to win stakeholder confidence. Your customers, staff and the wider community expect you to take action and improve on environmental and social factors.
Many businesses are already taking responsible action which is not known to customers and other stakeholders without a certification to communicate this achievement.
Accreditations providing framework for sustainability efforts aimed at larger businesses, such as the Environmental management System ISO 14001, are often expensive and time-consuming for small businesses to obtain.
Your route to sustainability without breaking the bank
Smart Sustainability certification is an affordable and transparent route to a sustainable business. It’s an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your sustainability initiatives and progress across various sustainability issues and to gain competitive edge.
The certification recognises impact across five key sustainability topics and provides a framework towards real action, tangible impact and measurable results.
Working with Avieco has given us simple and practical tools and helped us to build a behavioural change programme that inspired our team to get more involved and take ownership.
Claire Sheldrake
HR Director, CNET Networks
Key sustainability topics
- Carbon footprint
- Waste management
- Social responsibility
- Sustainable procurement (service business only)
- Sustainability of products (products business only)
What will you achieve through our certification?
It’s simple and easy
Achieving Smart Sustainability certification is an easy 5 step process, with support and guidance throughout your sustainability journey:
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Showcase responsibility and commitment in sustainability to your stakeholders, customer and employees
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Take action and collect evidence – take action in line with the guidance for each sustainability topic and collect suitable evidence to prove action.
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Submit draft evidence questionnaires – Complete online questionnaires for each topic and upload required evidence. Feedback will be provided on draft submission prior to final submission, allowing time to rectify response.
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Submit FINAL evidence questionnaires – Finalise evidence following feedback, and submit final responses to online questionnaires along with suitable evidence.
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Achieve certification – On successful completion, you will receive certification deliverables including certificate, emblem and scoring summary report. Market your success to your employees, customers and stakeholders!
Avieco gave us clear direction, we’ve made cost savings, gained promotional opportunities and got our staff involved.
Franck Nicolas
Office for Public Management
Benefits of Smart Sustainability certification:
- Showcase responsibility and commitment in sustainability to your stakeholders, customer and employees
- Futureproof your business through resource and cost savings
- Improve employee engagement and retention
- Differentiate your brand from competitors through leveraging marketing benefits
- Quantify your environmental and social impact
- Improved sustainability management
- Identify areas of priority action for your business
- Improved tender responses
Avieco is one of the leading certification bodies in the UK. Under our previous brand name Carbon Smart we have certified over 1,500 organisations to date. We have helped businesses demonstrate corporate responsibility through sustainability action, as well as reduce their bottom line through resource and cost savings.
With the new Smart Sustainability certification, businesses will demonstrate greater impact, with an emphasis on driving action and measurable results across multiple sustainability topics, and not just carbon footprint.
Avieco really helps us to measure and improve our environmental impact, from flights and fleet to waste and electricity! We are delighted to have improved from Silver to Gold and are looking forward to continue making improvements throughout our business to help improve the environment.
Courtney Asser
Contracts Assistant, Stone & Ceramic Ltd
To begin your journey to becoming Smart Sustainability certified, book a free consultation.
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