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📋 A client's ESG questionnaire: how to respond
The lead client is not evaluating you: they are reporting on their supply chain.
Why they send it to you
Large companies are required to report on their supply chain as well: your answers feed into their financial statements. That's why it will come back every year — and every year a little more demanding.
Mistakes to avoid
Answering "not applicable" where a simple data point would suffice; promising policies that don't exist (greenwashing in questionnaires comes at a high cost); having different people rush through answers with different numbers.
The Simbial Method
An Impact Controller reads through the questionnaire with you, identifies the data you already have and what still needs to be built, and every answer goes into your register: the next questionnaire will start from there, not from scratch.
Impact is proven, not declared.
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