Learn More About Green Light
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What is it?
Green Light is the industry’s first proprietary sustainable procurement platform based on third party ratings.
The platform enables Staples Promo to assess and optimize the sustainability of our supply chain.
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Why is it important?
Green Light provides EcoVadis scores for our supply chain partners, ensuring 100% transparency across the entire value chain.
The platform upholds sustainability standards by using objective metrics based on international guidelines to measure data and drive continuous improvement in responsible business practices for participating suppliers.
Green Light Assessments
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What are they?
Green Light is powered by EcoVadis, the world’s leading sustainability ratings agency, ensuring trusted and transparent sustainability assessments.
EcoVadis formulates custom assessments for each supplier based on their size, industry, and country of operation.
The custom assessments provide ratings that offer a comprehensive view of our suppliers' sustainability efforts, identifying areas for improvement and tracking progress over time.
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Why are they important?
EcoVadis assessments cover key sustainability criteria to evaluate the overall sustainability performance of suppliers.
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How are they scored?
EcoVadis assessments are scored on a scale from 0 to 100, with ratings based on a supplier’s performance across key sustainability criteria, including environmental, social, and ethical practices.
Ratings
Below is a comprehensive evaluation of our supply chains for each of our three regions based on sustainability performance across key criteria, reflecting our commitment to responsible sourcing and ongoing transparency.
Canadian Suppliers
Environment
54.3Labor & Human Rights
61.3Ethics
49.1Sustainable Procurement
50.4Overall
55.5We worked with Green Light supplier partners to improve performance across all four pillars to 55.5
Global Suppliers (Excluding North America)
Environment
60.0Labor & Human Rights
58.6Ethics
61.4Sustainable Procurement
54.6Overall
58.6Aggregate global Green Light suppliers sustainability decreased 0.6% relative to the 2023 baseline due to the
US Suppliers
Environment
49.8Labor & Human Rights
55.4Ethics
47.9Sustainable Procurement
46.9Overall
51.1U.S. Suppliers with multiple EcoVadis audits
Spend
Our sustainability commitment is reflected in our procurement spend, with
2022 Baseline
2023 Performance
Spend with Green Light suppliers grew to 65%
2024 Performance
Spend with Green Light suppliers grew to 73%
2025 Goal
Our goal is to conduct
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For more information about our Green Light Responsible Sourcing program, reach out to supply.chain2@staples.com.
