This is a consultation draft for the revised good practice guide for benchmarking of voluntary sustainability systems. The consultation runs from 31 October to 15 December 2024. More details on the consultation.

Sustainability systems are benchmarked by different stakeholders and for different purposes. But benchmarking practices differ greatly in terms of transparency, robustness and alignment. To bring more quality and consistency to sustainability benchmarking, we published a good practice guide in 2020. The revised guide focuses on VSS and frames the recommendations around the key decisions to be made at each stage in the development of a benchmark of VSS.