Impact frameworks and methodologies

Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as Global Goals, are a set of 17 integrated and interrelated goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that humanity enjoys peace and prosperity by 2030.

Reporting on the SDGs is important in communicating to stakeholders the company's commitment to contributing to the Global Goals, claiming accountability and responsibility to take the necessary actions, and measuring progress over time.

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PearlPoints guides sustainability across two key needs:

Understanding and measuring life cycle impacts
A farmer's approach to ESG

Businesses are increasingly required to report how their commitments contribute to climate and biodiversity goals. Global initiatives such as the Science-Based Targets (SBTi) and the GHG Protocol are helping businesses set meaningful targets and monitor progress to make change.

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Environmental, Social and Governance reporting

ESG is designed to incorporate the needs of nature and people into a company or organization's strategy. It takes a holistic view of impacts and uses metrics that can deliver long-term, enduring sustainability and community outcomes, including environmental actions but also policies for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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ReCiPe methodology

ReCiPe is a method for life cycle impact assessment developed in 2008 by RIVM, Radboud University Nijmegen, Leiden University, and PRé Sustainability. ReCiPe transforms the long list of impacts that arise from production activities, documented in a life cycle inventory, into a range of key indicators and indicator scores. These indicator scores express the relative severity on an environmental impact category.

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