Thanks to the tireless dedication of several Webcorians across various teams, Webcor has earned a Bronze Medal from EcoVadis, a third-party environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rating system.

EcoVadis’s ratings and insights aim to enable all companies to “reduce risk, drive improvement, and accelerate positive impact on our planet and society.”

This achievement is particularly notable given EcoVadis’s new rating scale: To maintain our Bronze status, we needed to move from the top 39 percent of all EcoVadis-rated companies to the top 35 percent.

  • EcoVadis assesses companies’ sustainability performance in four key areas—Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement.
  • Third-party measurement of our ESG performance falls under the “Performance” category (14: External Reporting) of our corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment.
“A rating from an international, respected company like EcoVadis validates our alignment with a holistic ESG framework,” says Sr. Sustainability Director Sarah Rege, who championed Webcor’s journey to EcoVadis Bronze.

Meeting EcoVadis’s Rigorous Standards for Bronze

In 2024, EcoVadis restructured its rating system: In previous years, participating companies simply needed to earn a certain number of points to achieve its desired rating, e.g. Webcor achieved 54 points last year to achieve Bronze, placing us in the top 39 percent.

As of Jan. 1, 2024, however, all companies are rated based on their percentile rank, which is calculated across all companies in all industries (versus all companies within the same industry).

  • To maintain our Bronze rating in 2024, Webcor had to place in the top 35 percent of all companies rated in EcoVadis’s database over the last year.

To meet EcoVadis’s increasingly stringent requirements for Bronze, Webcorians across several departments partnered with Sustainability on addressing various improvement areas.

What’s Next?

The Sustainability team is strategizing next steps to improve our 2025 EcoVadis score, including external reporting, consolidated reporting, development of quantitative KPIs that measure our implementation of new practices, reporting in new areas, etc., while ensuring alignment with our CSR framework and goals.

With the passing of SB-219, aka the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (CCCDAA), Sarah says we can also expect an improvement in our EcoVadis score when we report externally on our GHG emissions.

  • CCDAA requires California businesses such as Webcor to calculate and publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks.
  • “This legislation aligns with EcoVadis in several ways, so that will definitely support our efforts next year,” Sarah says.