Reliable Partner Sustainability Report Universal - Questions

1. Background information

Basic information

• Report language
  (Finnish/English/Swedish)

• Company ID

• Company name

• Company form
  (Private limited company / Sole trader / Partnership / Cooperative / Other, please specify )

• Period start date (mm/yyyy)
  (The reporting period should be the same as the company's financial year. This ensures that sustainability data is comparable with financial data.)

• Period end date (mm/yyyy)

• The main location of the company's operations

• Main industry
• Balance sheet total (€)

• Revenue (€)

• Number of personnel (pers)

• Employee count calculation method
  (End of reporting period / Reporting period average)
• Owned, rented and managed premises
• Reporting method
  (Group reporting / Company-specific reporting) 

Certifications

• Does the company have certifications?
  (Yes/No)

  If you answer “Yes”, you may add up to 3 certificates and provide the following details:

  • Name of certification

  • Issuer or organization

  • Issuance date or validity period

  • Rating or classification

Additional information about the organisation and reporting

You can add voluntarily reported additional information about the organisation and reporting.

2. Environment

Climate change – practices and policies

• Does the company have practices, policies or future plans regarding climate change?
  (Yes/No)
  
  If you answered "Yes", describe the company's practices, policies or plans.

Electricity consumption

You can get this information from your electricity bill or by inquiring from your electricity company.

• Renewable electricity (kWh)

• Other electricity (kWh)

Fossil fuels

Report the amount of fossil fuels consumed, either in megawatt-hours (MWh) or liters.

First select the reporting method (Liters / MWh / No emissions), then answer the corresponding questions.

• Liters
  • Petrol (l)
  • Diesel (l)
  • Gas (kg)
  • Fuel oil (l)

• MWh

  • Energy from renewable sources (MWh)
  • Other fossil energy (MWh)

• No emissions

  • Explanation for missing fossil fuel consumption

Company's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) on an annual basis

You can report the values yourself, or leave the fields blank. If you leave the fields blank, we estimate the emissions automatically based on the given electricity and fuel information.

• Scope 1 emissions (tCO2e)
  (Direct emissions from owned or controlled sources, such as fuel consumption in vehicles, buildings, or production)

• Scope 2 emissions (tCO2e)
  (Indirect emissions from purchased energy (electricity, heat, steam, cooling) production site-based)

Greenhouse gas emissions – Scope 3

Reporting Scope 3 emissions is not required under the VSME Basic standard. If the company has calculated its Scope 3 emissions, they can be reported here. Scope 3 includes the company's other indirect emissions before and after the company's own operations. Scope 3 emissions are divided into 15 different categories (e.g. purchased goods and services, transportation, waste, business travel, etc.). Not all emission categories need to be calculated and reported; reporting on the most relevant categories for the company is sufficient. When you fill in this data, it will be automatically used in the total emissions calculation and printed on the report

• Estimated Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions
  (Yes/No)
  
  If your answer is yes, fill in at least one category.
  
  1. Purchased goods and services (tCO2e)
  2. Capital goods (tCO2e)
  3. Other fuel and energy-related emissions (not Scope 1 or 2) (tCO2e)
  4. Upstream transportation and distribution (tCO2e)
  5. Waste generated in operations (tCO2e)
  6. Business travel (tCO2e)
  7. Employee commuting (tCO2e)
  8. Upstream leased assets (tCO2e)
  9. Downstream transportation and distribution (tCO2e)
  10. Processing of sold products (tCO2e)
  11. Use of sold products (tCO2e)
  12. End-of-life treatment of sold products (tCO2e)
  13. Downstream leased assets (tCO2e)
  14. Franchises (tCO2e)
  15. Investments (tCO2e
  
  Estimated Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions total (tCO2e)
  
  

Air, water and soil pollutants

Report the amounts of emissions including unit information as they appear in your environmental permit. If your company has no registered emissions, select (No emissions).

• Does the company have practices, policies or future plans regarding air, water and soil pollution?
  (Yes/No)
  
  If you answered "yes", describe the company's practices, policies or plans for reducing air, water and soil pollution-related harm.

• Is the company legally obligated to report pollution emissions to authorities, or does the company voluntarily publish pollution emission reports?
  (Yes/No)
  
  If you answer "Yes", provide a link to the pollution report. If you add multiple links, separate them with commas. If documentation is not publicly available, leave this field empty and select "Report manually". If you do not report any of these, you do not need to answer these fields.

Land use in areas important for biodiversity

Areas sensitive to biodiversity include areas belonging to the Natura 2000 protection network, UNESCO World Heritage sites, key areas of biological diversity, and other protected areas whose primary management objective is to achieve permanent protection of nature and to secure the related cultural values and availability of ecosystem services. If the company has no land use in these areas, you can leave the response lines empty.

• Does the company have practices, policies or future plans regarding biodiversity or ecosystems?
  (Yes/No)
  
  If you answered "Yes", describe the company's practices, policies or plans for reducing biodiversity-related harm and increasing benefits.
  
  

• Does the company have land use (ownership, leasing, management) in or near areas important for biodiversity?
  (Yes/No)
  
  If "Yes", provide details of the biodiversity-sensitive locations.

Report how much water has been drawn inside your company's premises or plant boundaries

Water stress refers to areas where the percentage of total water withdrawn is high (40-80%) or very high (over 80%). Finland currently has no areas suffering from significant water stress.

• Does the company have practices, policies or future plans regarding water use?
  (Yes/No)
  
  If "Yes", describe the company's practices, policies or plans for reducing water use-related harm and increasing benefits.

• Report the company's total water withdrawal during the reporting period in cubic metres (m³), i.e. the amount of water taken within the organisation's boundaries (m3)

• Does the company have premises in areas of significant water stress?
  (Yes/No)
  
  If "Yes"

  • Select the company's premises located in areas of significant water stress.

  • Report the company's water withdrawal in areas of significant water stress (m³). 

• Report the company's water consumption. (m3)
  
  

Company's annual total waste production

You can get this information from waste fee data. If information about the amount of waste is not available or the waste fee is included in the rent, you can answer 0.

• Does the company have practices, policies or future plans regarding the circular economy?
  (Yes/No)
  
  If "Yes", describe the company's practices, policies or plans for promoting the circular economy.

• Total amount of waste (kg)
• Waste directed to recycling (kg)
• Hazardous waste (kg)
• Non-hazardous waste amount (kg)

Additional information about environmental responsibility

You can add voluntarily reported additional information about the company's environmental responsibility.

3. Social responsibility

Own workforce

• Does the company have practices, policies or future plans regarding its own workforce?
  (Yes/No)
  
  If you answered "Yes", describe the company's practices, policies or plans for reducing harm and increasing benefits related to its own workforce.

Employees and training

Report the number of permanent and fixed-term employees at the end of the reporting year.

• Permanent employees (men pers)

• Permanent employees (women pers)

• Fixed-term employees (men pers)

• Fixed-term employees (women pers)

• Training hours (men h/pers)

• Training hours (women h/pers)

Additional information about social responsibility

You can add voluntarily reported additional information about the company's social responsibility.

4. Governance

Business conduct