Frequently asked questions about score4more and participation in the German Sustainability Award
The sustainability profile presents industry-specific measures, solutions and key figures for the company in a structured manner. It simply summarizes the contents of the sustainability report or the published sustainability performance of the company.
Key sustainability issues vary from industry to industry. In the social sector, social sustainability issues are essential; in energy-intensive industries, it is climate and energy issues. These industry specifics are mapped via the profile.
You select the industry in which your company is predominantly active, i.e. generates the majority of sales or value added.
If your company has different divisions or sub-companies that operate in different industries, a division can also create its own profile in another industry. The prerequisite is that there is a definable sub-subsidiary and the sustainability performance of the sub-subsidiary is published independently, e.g. via the sub-subsidiary's own sustainability report. The profile for the subcompany is created by a separate user and with a different company name.
Selecting the industry of your company in the signup process displays example sustainability areas that are common for that industry. Try selecting various industries to evaluate which suits your business best. In addition, it is also possible to display all industries at a glance.
To switch to another industry with your business, please contact us through score4more's support options.
With the EU regulation on more extensive reporting requirements (CSRD), the quality and significance of data from sustainability reports will continue to increase. score4more aims to make the database from sustainability accessible and actionable. The profile information is validated internally as well as by external industry professionals.
Many companies and especially small, sustainability-oriented SMEs do not yet have a sustainability report or a declaration on the German Sustainability Code. Companies without a report can nevertheless create a profile and alternatively provide the best possible published source via URL link where the information provided in the profile can be found. This can be, for example, sustainability descriptions on the company's website.
Do you already have a sustainability report or integrated report? Then this is your reporting source. Enter the URL link to their most recent report here, as well as the year to which the information in the report refers. DNK users enter the link to the most recent statement in the DNK database. If you do not yet have a report, enter an alternative URL link to published sustainability information, such as more detailed descriptions on your website. In this case, select 2022 as the reference year as the last available completed calendar year.
The year of foundation is important information, especially for the German Sustainability Award, since there is a separate competition for startups, e.g. the Next Economy Award, to which companies can be invited. It is additionally relevant in order to be able to analyze transformation speed by company age across all companies.
For better comparability, the greenhouse gas emissions of the previous three years are queried at the beginning of each calendar year. For the year 2023, this means the years 2022, 2021 and 2020. If you have not yet measured certain years and/or scopes, you can indicate this by clicking the 🛇 symbol in edit mode. If you already have more recent figures that you can base on publicly available sources, please feel free to indicate this in the tab "German Sustainability Award" under additional information.
Please name only published services. This creates the same data basis and conditions for all companies. Your score4more profile is currently public, ensure no confidential information is published to your profile.
The sustainability profile is only visible to you and the score4more team, which analyzes the described performance. In the course of the cooperation with the German Sustainability Award, the information in the profile is made available to the DNP to determine nominees and award winners. In the future it will be possible to control the visibility of your profile. To make it avaialble to to the public, your business partners only, or hide it completely.
In the first step, score4more offers the creation of a sustainability profile. The analysis team at score4more provides scoring as an analysis service for the German Sustainability Award. In the future, it will also be possible for companies to receive a scoring based on the sustainability services provided via the platform.
The common goal of sore4more and the DNP is to bring sustainability and transformation to the breadth of business. This requires a scalable data platform and scoring methodology to analyze a large number of companies. Here, the DNP uses score4more's platform, which can not only technically map a large number of companies, but methodically shares the DNP's focus on trailblazers and transformational examples.
You create a sustainability profile for your company in your industry via score4more. You can edit your profile details until the deadline set by the German Sustainability Award (DNP) on 19.05.2023. After the deadline, your company's profile will be automatically included in the DNP preliminary evaluation and will be analysed using the score4more scoring methodology. This process is free of charge.
The advantage of the score4more platform is that you can create a profile at any time and the profile can always be considered for the DNP competition. I.e. if you create a profile after the deadline, it can be used directly for next year's DNP.
Yes, DNP participants only need registration and your sustainability profile on score4more to participate in the DNP. Profile creation and application to the DNP will always remain free of charge and without additional obligations. Additional paid features will be availabe in the future on an opt-in basis.
The profile focuses on a few key issues for your company's chosen industry and is based on the EU reporting standard ESRS. This makes industry-specific issues more comparable across different companies. If your company has sustainability services that are not requested in the profile, we provide additional fields and document upload options available under the tab "German Sustainability Award".
Yes, you can specify additional sustainability achievements here that you consider relevant for the DNP jury. This can be on the one hand a text of maximum 2,000 characters, on the other hand a document (PDF, JPEG or PNG) with a maximum size of 20MB. For the uploaded file, the first 10 pages will be considered by the jury.
For registration and creation of a sustainability profile you use the platform and services of score4more. As with other online platforms, the legal basis is governed by score4more's GTC and privacy policy, e.g. the technical availabilities of the services or due diligence and data protection issues.
Problems with the login can have several causes:
It is only possible to be assigned to a single company profile. Use a different e-mail address to create another company profile if needed. It is also only possible to create one profile for a company. The error message "Company already exists" indicates that another employee of your company has already created a profile for your company.
If you have forgotten your password, you can request a new password in the login area under "Forgot password".
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